LEARNING ROAD NAVIGATION PATHS BASED ON AGGREGATE DRIVER BEHAVIOR
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Abstract
Techniques are described for generating and using information regarding road traffic in various ways, including by obtaining and analyzing road traffic information regarding actual behavior of drivers of vehicles on a network of roads. Obtained actual driver behavior information may in some situations be analyzed to identify decision point locations at which drivers face choices corresponding to possible alternative routes through the network of roads (e.g., intersections, highway exits and/or entrances, etc.), as well as to track the actual use by drivers of particular paths between particular decision points in order to determine preferred compound links between those decision point locations. The identified and determined information from the analysis may then be used in various manners, including in some situations to assist in determining particular recommended or preferred routes of vehicles through the network of roads based at least in part on actual driver behavior information.
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67 Claims
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43. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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receiving, by one or more configured computing systems, information relating to a plurality of prior vehicle trips along one or more roads by a plurality of vehicles; automatically analyzing, by the one or more configured computing systems, the received information to determine a compound link representing a preferred path between two locations on at least one of the one or more roads, wherein the automatic analyzing includes selecting one of multiple alternative paths over the one or more roads between the two locations based at least in part on an assessed value of an indicated traffic measure for each of the multiple alternative paths, the assessed value for each alternative path being based at least in part on at least one of the plurality of prior vehicle trips that include that alternative path; and
providing, by the one or more configured computing systems, an indication of the determined compound link. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
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56. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored contents that configure a computing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
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receiving, by the configured computing system, one or more indications of multiple vehicle trips along one or more roads by multiple vehicles; determining, by the configured computing system and based at least in part on the multiple vehicle trips, one or more compound links that each represents one of multiple alternative paths between two locations on at least one of the one or more roads, wherein the determining of each of the one or more compound links is based at least in part on an assessed value of an indicated measure for each of the multiple alternative paths for the compound link, the assessed value for each alternative path being based at least in part on some of the multiple vehicle trips that include that alternative path; and
providing, by the configured computing system, an indication of at least one of the determined one or more compound links. - View Dependent Claims (57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
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65. A computing system, comprising:
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one or more processors; and a system that is configured to, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, automatically determine one or more compound links that each represent a preferred path between two locations on one or more roads and provide an indication of at least one of the determined one or more compound links, the automatic determining of the one or more compound links including, for each compound link; analyzing information regarding a plurality of prior vehicle trips along the one or more roads by a plurality of vehicles; and selecting one of multiple alternative paths between the two locations for the compound link based at least in part on an assessed value of a traffic measure for each of the multiple alternative paths, the assessed value for each alternative path being based at least in part on one or more of the plurality of prior vehicle trips that include that alternative path. - View Dependent Claims (66, 67)
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