Patent ID: 7027915

Claim:
A personal traffic congestion avoidance system, comprising a. a motor vehicle; b. a GPS-based navigational system mounted inside said motor vehicle, said GPS-based navigational system including a GPS receiver, a visual display, and a map database; c. means for wireless communication coupled to said GPS-based navigation system; d. a remote computer connected to said means for wireless communication, said remote computer being used to collect physical location data from said GPS-based navigation system located inside said motor vehicle; e. means for monitoring traffic on roadways in a region for a traffic affecting event connected to said remote computer; and, f. said remote computer being used to compare the current location of said motor vehicle with the location of a detected traffic affecting event and said remote computer being used to transmit to said GPS based navigational system a traffic alert warning when said motor vehicle is in the vicinity of, or is traveling on a roadway affected by, the detected traffic affecting event.