Optimizing Traffic Predictions and Enhancing Notifications
First Claim
1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of forecasting traffic patterns, the method comprising:
- exposing a user interface to a user that includes a set of fields that receive user-entered data that describes an origin and a destination for which a route can be provided;
receiving the user-entered data;
utilizing the user-entered data to increase an accuracy of a traffic-prediction model.
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Abstract
Travel-demand forecasting methods are described for predicting traffic volume based, at least in part, on user-entered data in the form of origin/destination data pairs, user preferences, demographic data and other types of socioeconomic data. This data can source a prediction algorithm or be used to calibrate or more make accurate a current algorithm. Methods and systems are described for, among other things, optimizing traffic predictions, forecasting traffic patterns using user-assigned trip patterns, associating rich attribute information to navigation routes, exposing personal-logistic information to a group, communicating traffic-situation-generated alerts based on user information, optimizing a presentation of user-defined traffic routes, and presenting location indications based on proximity (temporal or geographical).
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20 Claims
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1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of forecasting traffic patterns, the method comprising:
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exposing a user interface to a user that includes a set of fields that receive user-entered data that describes an origin and a destination for which a route can be provided; receiving the user-entered data; utilizing the user-entered data to increase an accuracy of a traffic-prediction model. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for forecasting traffic patterns, the system comprising,
a client component that receives indications of origins and destinations associated with a trip; -
a server component in communication the client application that receives and facilities the storing of the origins and destinations; and a traffic-prediction component that utilizes the origins and destinations to forecast traffic based on the origins and destinations.
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14. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of forecasting traffic patterns by including user-defined trip patterns, the method comprising:
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presenting a graphical user interface to a user that presents a suggested route based on received origin and destination data; allowing a user to customize at least one segment of the route by receiving customization data, which includes data that indicates the at least one segment; utilizing the customization data to define a new segment; storing segment information that describes the new segment; and utilizing the segment information to subsequently suggest new routes that include the new segment. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. One or more computer-readable media have computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for presenting a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI comprising:
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a plurality of location icons that each respectively correspond to physical geographic locations; the plurality of location icons being presented in such a way that their physical distance from each other is in a proportion to a physical proximate relationship that exists between the physical geographic locations.
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