Patent ID: 8731835

Claim:
A method for crowdsourcing a transportation network, comprising: acquiring validation sequences for each of a plurality of travelers on the transportation network during a training period, at least some of the validation sequences including a plurality of origins, a plurality of destinations, and boarding and alighting timestamps corresponding thereto; with a processor, defining a validation sequence path as a sequence of successive origins and destinations for each of the generated validation sequences; determining a frequency of each validation sequence path occurring during the training period; calculating a duration of each validation sequence path in accordance with the boarding and alighting timestamps associated therewith; computing an expected transfer time for each validation sequence path between a first of the origins and a last of the destinations on the transportation network from the corresponding determined durations for a plurality of the validation sequences; and storing crowdsource information corresponding to each validation sequence path in an associated database, the crowdsource information including the determined frequency of occurrence and the expected transfer time.