Patent ID: 9721472
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: B60W,G01C,G05D,G08G

Claim:
1. A method for formulating a lane level routing plan for a vehicle, the method comprising: sending a plan request, including a local environment state of the vehicle and an end vehicle configuration for the vehicle, to a statistics module, the statistics module communicatively linked to lane level data for roads having multiple lanes in the same direction of travel, the local environment state including a current configuration for the vehicle; receiving lane level statistics from the statistics module, the lane level statistics for one or more roads to be traversed when traveling a distance separating the current vehicle configuration from the end vehicle configuration; formulating the lane level routing plan based on the lane level statistics, the lane level routing plan for a route from the current configuration to the end configuration over the one or more roads, the lane level routing plan including cues for predicted lane changes on at least one road having multiple lanes in the same direction of travel; and presenting the lane level routing plan at the display device.