Patent ID: 11922803
Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for automatically detecting a merge lane traffic jam, carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause an apparatus to perform:
processing probe data collected from a plurality of road links of a merge point to classify the plurality of road links, one or more sublinks of the plurality of road links, or a combination thereof into at least one of a highway upstream class, a merging area class, a highway downstream class, a ramp downstream class, and a ramp upstream class;
determining real-time vehicle speed data for the highway upstream class, the merging area class, the highway downstream class, the ramp downstream class, the ramp upstream class, or a combination thereof;
automatically determining an occurrence of the merge lane traffic jam based on the vehicle speed data.