Patent ID: 7899612

Claim:
A traffic information estimating system, comprising: a first center provided with: a past information database for storing past information, which is collected for road links in a predetermined area, of a past mobile object on a road; and link correlation analyzing means for calculating correlations of traffic information among each road link in the predetermined area from the past information stored in the past information database, and outputting as link correlation information among the road links; and a second center provided with: a current information database which stores running information that is collected for the road links in the predetermined area, of a current mobile object; combination calculating means for calculating weighting information to obtain the current information as a sum of the link correlation information transmitted from the first center; and traffic information estimating means for calculating estimated traffic information for a link where the current information is not collected based on the link correlation information and the weighting information transmitted from the first center, wherein the correlations of traffic information among each road link are bases that are calculated by a principal component analysis with missing data, and the weighting information is a weighting coefficient of the bases.