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Urban computing of route-oriented vehicles

  • US 9,754,226 B2
  • Filed: 12/13/2011
  • Issued: 09/05/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • enabling a wireless coupling between a computing device including a processor and global positioning system (GPS) receiving devices of route-oriented vehicles through a wireless communication network;

    receiving through the wireless communication network, by the processor, sequences of GPS points of the route-oriented vehicles, the GPS points being obtained by the GPS receiving devices of the route-oriented vehicles;

    identifying, by the processor, geographical locations from the sequences of GPS points in which the geographical locations represent on urban area where the route-oriented vehicles travelled as recorded in the sequences GPS points;

    modeling, by the processor, traffic patterns in the urban area by;

    partitioning the urban area into regions based at least in part on roads that form borders between regions;

    segmenting the GPS points into time slots and identifying two or more of the GPS points that each include a status of vehicle occupancy indicating that each of the two or more GPS points is associated with transporting a passenger in one or more of the route-oriented vehicles has at least on a sensor that detects the passenger;

    projecting the two or more GPS points associated with transporting the passenger onto the regions to construct transitions associated with transporting the passenger between one or more pairs of the regions; and

    building a matrix of the regions for each time slot in each day based on a number of the transitions; and

    providing, by the processor, one or more recommendations using the modeled traffic patterns creating at least one new traffic route, the new traffic route replacing a previous area unavailable for travel by the route-oriented vehicles.

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