Preventative traffic congestion social networking improvement system within a community

摘要

A method, system, and computer program product for transmitting traffic congestion routing data to a community of global positioning system (GPS) devices. Community routing logic of a community routing system (CRS) receives a route request containing the current location and desired destination of a GPS device. The CRS may use the community routing logic to determine a path that the user of the GPS device should travel on to best minimize driving time and traffic conditions for a community of users of the CRS. The CRS considers road capacity, current traffic conditions, and historical traffic data for roads and alternate roads along a preferred route. The CRS also considers routes previously taken by the GPS device. Additionally, the CRS may receive information about routes taken by other GPS devices to further improve future routes of the community of GPS devices.

主权项

1. A method for optimizing travel time for a community of GPS devices, the method comprising:
transmitting, to a particular GPS device, a selection of one or more alternate routes in use by one or more GPS devices of a subset of GPS devices within a community of GPS devices, wherein the subset of GPS devices and the particular GPS device are part of a same social network, wherein a social network is a group of users associated with a corresponding group of GPS devices that are collectively registered with the community routing system, and wherein each GPS device in the community is associated with a vehicle; providing a selection to the particular GPS device of a currently selected route and the one or more alternate routes in use by the other devices in the subset of GPS devices; and receiving a selection of an alternate optimized route from the one or more alternate routes in use by the subset of GPS devices.