Patent ID: 8781718

Claim:
A system for estimating time travel distributions on signalized arterials, comprising: a processor; memory; and an application stored in memory and executable by the processor to: receive travel data, about a signalized arterial collected by one or more reidentification devices, the travel data corresponding to data collected within a common time segment in each of a plurality of different days, normalize the travel data into a plurality of individual pace values, the pace values expressed as a ratio of time per distance, calculate an average pace value for the signalized arterial as a linear combination of the individual pace values weighted by distance traveled across the signalized arterial, estimate a distribution based on the average pace value, store the estimated distribution in memory, receive real-time travel data about the signalized arterial collected by one or more reidentification devices, calibrate the distribution based on the real-time travel data, and generate a real-time prediction of the traffic conditions of the signalized arterial based on the calibrated distribution.