Patent ID: 7706964

Claim:
A system that facilitates predicting road speeds or probability distributions over speeds for road segments not associated with sensed data for all desired contexts, comprising: a receiver component that receives a traffic system representation, the traffic system representation includes sensed velocities for at least a portion of a plurality of road segments over different contexts; and a predictive component that determines that a sensed velocity is not available for a first road segment of the plurality of road segments; and analyzes the traffic system representation and automatically assigns at least one of an average velocity and a probability distribution over velocities to the first road segment within the traffic system representation, by: identifying at least one similar road segment that is similar to the first road segment and for which sensed velocities are available in a context, and predicting, for the context, at least one of the average velocity and the probability distribution over velocities for the first road segment based on the sensed velocities available for the identified at least one similar road segment.