Patent ID: 8798896
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for increasing accuracy in estimating an average time taken to travel through a chosen road segment, the method comprising: a road traffic sensing system collecting data corresponding to one or more vehicles travelling through road segments, thereby enabling determination of a time taken by the one or more vehicles to travel through the road segments; at least one processor identifying one or more correlated road segments for which the time taken to travel through the correlated road segments is correlated with the time taken to travel through the chosen road segment, the processor identifying one or more preferred road segments among the correlated road segments that increases the accuracy in determining the average time taken to travel through the chosen road segment; and the processor estimating the average time taken to travel through the chosen road segment using data corresponding to a time taken to travel through the preferred road segments and using data corresponding to the time taken to travel through the chosen road segment, characterized in that identifying the preferred road segments comprises: