Patent ID: 8718910

Claim:
A method for generating a traffic report, comprising: receiving, at a network interface, crowd sourced data from a computing device associated with a user traversing a travel route, wherein the crowd sourced data includes: passive data collected about one or more other users traversing the travel route, wherein the passive data includes location, heading, and speed data each respectively associated with the one or more other users, and active data provided by the one or more other users that is associated with a planned or unplanned traffic incident, wherein the active data includes a location of the incident and a time associated with the incident; and executing instructions stored in memory, using the processor to: verify timeliness of the crowd sourced data, generate a traffic report based on the crowd sourced data, wherein the traffic report includes an incident report, the incident report generated by processing of the active data, and display the traffic report on the computing device.