SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAVEL ROUTE PLANNING USING SAFETY METRICS

• US 20130080055A1
• Filed: 11/20/2012
• Published: 03/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gary J. Speier, Steven W. Lundberg
• Original Assignee: Gary J. Speier, Steven W. Lundberg
• Inventors: Speier, Gary J., Lundberg, Steven W.
• Application Number:
  US13/682,409
• Publication Number:
  US 20130080055A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/533
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3461 Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types, segments such as motorways, toll roads, ferries

Abstract

Systems and methods are described to receive a safety preference; calculate a temporary route; analyze a portion of the temporary route to determine whether the portion is sufficiently safe based on the safety preference; modify the portion of the temporary route when the portion is not sufficiently safe; and present the temporary route. Other systems and methods are described.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting, by a processor-based system, on a display of the processor-based system, a user-interface comprising;

a user input portion;

a map portion; and

a route directions portion;

receiving, via the user input portion, a safety preference indicating an acceptable structural safety rating of a type of a transportation structure;

calculating a temporary route that accommodates the acceptable structural safety rating;

presenting the temporary route in at least one of the map portion and the route directions portion; and

presenting, in the map portion, information related to a transportation structure along the temporary route.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information related to the transportation structure comprises at least one of:

a safety rating, a construction date, or a construction type.