Transit Incidents

• US 20160356617A1
• Filed: 09/29/2015
• Published: 12/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Andrich, Brian, Leighton, Ian, Verosub, Ellis M., Hajj, Usama M.
• Granted Patent: US 9,891,065 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3423 Multimodal routing, i.e. combining two or more modes of transportation, where the modes can be any of, e.g. driving, walking, cycling, public transport
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3492 employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3694 Output thereof on a road map
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/123 indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, tramstransmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a map application that identifies several different transit routes from a starting location to a destination location. Each identified transit route includes one or more transit legs that are serviced by different transit vehicles of different transit lines. The map application also identifies a set of incidents that are associated with one or more transit legs of one or more of the identified transit routes. The map application of some embodiments then ranks the transit routes based on a set of criteria and the identified set of incidents. The map application displays, in a display area, a representation of a highest ranked transit route over a portion of a map presentation.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a map application executable by at least one processing unit of a device, the application comprising sets of instructions for:

identifying a plurality of transit routes from a starting location to a destination location, each transit route comprising one or more transit legs that are serviced by different transit vehicles of different transit lines;

identifying a set of incidents associated with one or more transit legs of one or more transit routes;

ranking the plurality of transit routes based on a set of criteria and the identified set of incidents; and

displaying, in a display area, a representation of a highest ranked transit route in the plurality of transit routes over a portion of a map presentation.

2. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the display area is a first display area, wherein the application further comprises a set of instructions for displaying, in a second display area, information about an incident associated with a particular transit route in the plurality of transit routes.

3. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 2, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the information in the second display area further comprises a set of instructions for, when no incident has occurred along the highest ranked transit route, displaying an estimated time of arrival at the destination location.

4. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 2, wherein the particular transit route is the highest ranked transit route displayed in the first display area.

5. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 2, wherein the incident comprises one of a road work and a traffic accident along a transit leg of the particular transit route.

6. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 2, wherein the particular transit route is one of the plurality of transit routes other than the highest ranked transit route displayed in the first display area.

7. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 6, wherein, based only on the set of criteria, the particular transit route is ranked higher than the highest ranked transit route.

8. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the set of criteria comprises at least one of an aggregated distance between the starting and destination locations, shortest aggregated travel time between the starting location and the destination, and a least number of transit vehicle changes between the starting location and the destination.

9. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the application further comprises a set of instructions for providing a selectable user interface item for displaying other transit routes that are not displayed in the first display area.

10. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the sets of instructions for identifying, the plurality of transit routes, identifying the set of incidents, and ranking the plurality of transit routes comprises a set of instructions for sending the starting and destination locations to a set of map service applications operating on a set of servers, wherein the identification of the plurality of transit routes and the set of incidents, and the ranking of the plurality of transit routes are performed by the set of map service applications.

11. An electronic device comprising:

a set of processing units for executing sets of instructions; and

a non-transitory machine readable medium storing a map application which when executed by at least one of the processing units of the device provides a transit navigation presentation, the application comprising sets of instructions for;

identifying a plurality of transit routes from a starting location to a destination location, each transit route comprising one or more transit legs that are serviced by different transit vehicles of different transit lines;

identifying a set of incidents associated with one or more transit legs of one or more transit routes;

ranking the plurality of transit routes based on a set of criteria and the identified set of incidents; and

displaying, in a display area, a representation of a highest ranked transit route in the plurality of transit routes over a portion of a map presentation.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the application further comprises a set of instructions for receiving the information about the incident from a set of dedicated incident gathering servers.

13. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 12, wherein the set of dedicated incident gathering servers receive different types of incident reports from a plurality of different sources.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the plurality of different sources comprises at least one of a social media, a weather service, an individual authorized user, and an incident reporting service.

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21. For a map application executable by at least one processor of a device, a method for displaying transit routes, the method comprising:

identifying a plurality of transit routes from a starting location to a destination location, each transit route comprising one or more transit legs that are serviced by different transit vehicles of different transit lines;

identifying a set of incidents associated with one or more transit legs of one or more transit routes;

ranking the plurality of transit routes based on a set of criteria and the identified set of incidents;

displaying, in a first display area, a representation of a highest ranked transit route in the plurality of transit routes over a portion of a map presentation; and

displaying, in a second display area, information about an incident associated with the highest ranked transit route displayed in the first display area.

22. The method of claim 21 further comprising providing a selectable user interface (UI) item for displaying, in a third display area, other transit routes that are not displayed in the first display area.

23. The method of claim 22 further comprising:

receiving a selection of the UI item; and

upon selection of the UI item;

displaying, in the third display area, a scrollable list view of selectable transit route summary presentations each of which is associated with one of the identified transit routes; and

displaying, in the scrollable list view, additional information about the incident associated with the highest ranked transit route.

24. The method of claim 23 further comprising:

receiving a selection of a particular transit route presentation in the scrollable list view other than the highest ranked transit route; and

replacing, in the first display area, the representation of the highest ranked transit route with a representation of the particular transit route over a different portion of the map presentation.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein each incident in the set of incidents comprises one a blocking incident and a non-blocking incident, the method further comprising:

receiving a selection of a transit route presentation in the scrollable list view other than the highest ranked transit route;

determining that another incident is associated with the selected transit route; and

only when the other incident is a non-blocking incident, replacing, in the first display area, the representation of the highest ranked transit route with a representation of the particular transit route over a different portion of the map presentation.

26. The method of claim 23, wherein the displayed additional information about the incident is selectable, wherein the method further comprises, upon selection of the displayed additional information, displaying, in a fourth display area, a detailed report about the incident associated with the highest ranked transit route.