Learning road navigation paths based on aggregate driver behavior
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more configured computing systems, information that is gathered by a plurality of devices in a plurality of vehicles traveling on one or more roads and that reflects actual prior driver behavior during a plurality of prior vehicle trips along the one or more roads by the plurality of vehicles, wherein the actual prior driver behavior during the prior vehicle trips includes driver selections between multiple alternative choices at decision points along the one or more roads;
automatically analyzing, by the one or more configured computing systems and for multiple alternative paths between two locations on the one or more roads, the received information to determine a compound link representing a preferred path of the multiple alternative paths based at least in part on use of the preferred path from the actual prior driver behavior during the plurality of prior vehicle trips, wherein the automatic analyzing includes using values of an indicated traffic measure for the multiple alternative paths that are assessed from the received information; and
providing, by the one or more configured computing systems, an indication of the determined compound link, to enable future routine decisions using the determined compound link for vehicles on the one or more roads.
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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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25 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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receiving, by one or more configured computing systems, information that is gathered by a plurality of devices in a plurality of vehicles traveling on one or more roads and that reflects actual prior driver behavior during a plurality of prior vehicle trips along the one or more roads by the plurality of vehicles, wherein the actual prior driver behavior during the prior vehicle trips includes driver selections between multiple alternative choices at decision points along the one or more roads; automatically analyzing, by the one or more configured computing systems and for multiple alternative paths between two locations on the one or more roads, the received information to determine a compound link representing a preferred path of the multiple alternative paths based at least in part on use of the preferred path from the actual prior driver behavior during the plurality of prior vehicle trips, wherein the automatic analyzing includes using values of an indicated traffic measure for the multiple alternative paths that are assessed from the received information; and providing, by the one or more configured computing systems, an indication of the determined compound link, to enable future routine decisions using the determined compound link for vehicles on the one or more roads. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17)
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14. 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 (15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim wherein the determining of the one or more compound links further includes identifying multiple pairs of the determined decision points such that each identified pair has multiple alternative paths on the one or more roads between the pair of determined decision points and is included by at least some of the indicated multiple vehicle trips, and associating each of the one or more compound links with one of the identified multiple pairs.
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23. A computing system, comprising:
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one or more processors; and a system that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, causes the at least one processor to automatically determine a compound links that represents a preferred path between two locations on one or more roads, and to provide an indication of the determined compound links, wherein the automatic determining of the compound links includes; analyzing information that is gathered by a plurality of devices in a plurality of vehicles traveling on the one or more roads and that reflects actual prior driver behavior during a plurality of prior vehicle trips along the one or more roads by the plurality of vehicles; and selecting, for one of multiple alternative paths between the two locations, t use the one alternative path for the compound link based at least in part on an amount of traffic diverging at an intermediate decision point along the one alternative path from the actual prior driver behavior during the plurality of prior vehicle trips. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25)
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