SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROUTE PLANNING

• US 20130197797A1
• Filed: 01/27/2012
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Adventium Enterprises
• Original Assignee: Adventium Enterprises
• Inventors: Boddy, Mark S., Shackleton, Hazel S.
• Application Number:
  US13/359,935
• Publication Number:
  US 20130197797A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/424
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence

Abstract

The present disclosure includes systems and methods for route planning. As an example, a computer implemented method for route planning can include generating a first portion of a planned route between a first location and a second location by assembling a set of previously traversed route segments each corresponding to one or more of a number of previously traversed routes, aggregating the set of previously traversed route segments with a number of route segments determined by a model-based route planning subsystem and corresponding to a second portion of the planned route, and causing the planned route to be provided to a display of a computing device.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for route planning, the method comprising:

generating a first portion of a planned route between a first location and a second location by assembling a set of previously traversed route segments each corresponding to one or more of a number of previously traversed routes;

aggregating the set of previously traversed route segments with a number of route segments determined by a model-based route planning subsystem and corresponding to a second portion of the planned route; and

causing the planned route to be provided to a display of a computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the previously traversed route segments are defined based on at least one of:

points of intersection of the number of previously traversed routes; and

points of divergence of the number of previously traversed routes.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising evaluating the planned route using at least one of:

stored previous execution data corresponding to a number of previously executed traversals of at least one of the number of previously traversed route segments of the set; and

stored map data associated with the model-based route planning subsystem.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the stored previous execution data includes metadata indicating a number of times particular route segments have been traversed within a particular time period.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising providing, to the display of the computing device, analysis information based on the evaluating of the planned route.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

evaluating an adjusted route using stored data associated with a number of previously executed traversals of at least one route segment of the adjusted route, the adjusted route representing a modification to the planned route made by a user via a user interface of the computing device; and

providing, to the display of the computing device, analysis information based on the evaluating of the adjusted route.

7. A computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that are executed by a processor to:

generate a planned route between a first location and a second location, the planned route comprising a number of route segments, wherein the number of route segments include;

a set of previously traversed route segments each corresponding to one or more of a number of previously traversed routes; and

a number of model-based route segments aggregated with the set of previously traversed route segments; and

evaluate the planned route based on;

stored previous execution data corresponding to a number of previously executed traversals of at least one of the number of previously traversed route segments of the set; and

stored map data corresponding to at least one of the number of model-based route segments.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 7, including instructions executed to retrieve the previously traversed route segments of the set from a database storing previous execution data corresponding to the number of previously traversed route segments of the set as well as previous execution data corresponding to previously traversed route segments other than those of the set.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 8, including instructions executed to provide updated execution data corresponding to the respective previously traversed route segments of the set based on a monitoring of an actual traversal of the planned route.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 7, including instructions executed to select the previously traversed route segments of the set based on contextual metadata corresponding to the previously traversed route segments of the set and stored along with previous execution data corresponding to the previously traversed route segments.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the one or more of the number of previously traversed routes includes at least one previously traversed route between the first location and the second location.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 7, including instructions executed to display the planned route to a graphical user interface.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 12, including instructions executed to provide analysis information associated with the generated planned route to the graphical user interface based on evaluation of the generated planned route.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the analysis information includes an indication that at least one of the number of route segments was avoided in association with a traversal of a previously planned route.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 12, including instructions executed to display an adjusted route to the graphical user interface, the adjusted route representing a modification to the generated planned route made by a user via the graphical user interface.

16. A system for route planning, comprising:

a computing device including processor and memory resources and a user interface, the user interface configured to receive user input corresponding to a source, a destination, and a number of user preferences associated with a route to be planned;

a previous execution subsystem including;

a previous execution database; and

an assembly module configured to assemble a set of previously traversed route segments stored in the previous execution database and representing at least a first portion of a planned route between the source and destination;

a model-based subsystem including;

a map database; and

a map-based planning module configured to determine a number of route segments based on information stored in the map database and corresponding to at least a second portion of the planned route; and

an aggregation module configured to;

generate a complete planned route between the source and destination by aggregating one or more previously traversed route segments of the set assembled by the assembly module and representing the at least a first portion of the planned route and one or more of the number of route segments determined by the map-based planning module and corresponding to the at least a second portion of the planned route.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the previously traversed route segments stored in the previous execution database are defined based on at least one of:

points of intersection of the number of previously traversed routes; and

points of divergence of the number of previously traversed routes.

18. The system of claim 16, further comprising a module configured to:

track an actual traversal of the complete planned route;

infer information corresponding to one or more segments of the complete planned route based on the tracking; and

update contextual metadata stored in the previous execution database and corresponding to the one or more segments of the complete planned route based on the inferred information.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the system is configured to:

display the complete planned route to a display of the computing device;

display an analysis of the complete planned route to the computing device;

allow a user of the computing device to make a number of modifications to the complete planned route via the user interface; and

generate an adjusted complete planned route for the user based on the number of modifications.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the system is configured to update at least one of the map database and the previous execution database responsive to the number of modifications to the complete planned route.