Patent ID: 8855903
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: G01C,G06Q,G08G,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for managing the flow of traffic, comprising: receiving an origin and destination location pair and a preferred travel time from a user; determining a route between the origin and the destination; determining multiple departure time windows proximate in time to the preferred travel time, wherein each of the departure time windows corresponds to a time interval when the user is to depart from the origin and travel along the route toward the destination; determining a user incentive for each of the multiple departure time windows, wherein determining a user incentive comprises dynamically adjusting the incentives allocation based on historical data, real-time data, and existing selections of departure time windows for other users; sending the route, the multiple departure time windows and their associated incentives for display; receiving from the user a selection of the route and one of the departure time windows and its associated incentive; receiving location information from the user during the user's travel along at least a portion of the route; verifying that the user has departed from the origin during the selected departure time window and traveled along at least a portion of the route thereafter; and sending the incentive to the user.