IP Library Patent Application 17011172
Patent Application
App. No. 17/011,172

ROAD SEGMENT RANKING

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App. No.
17/011,172
Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for road segment ranking. Incident data associated with a first road segment is evaluated to determine an incident trend for the first road segment. Factors for the first road segment are identified. A first danger rating is assigned to the first road segment based upon the incident trend and the factors. The first danger rating is displayed on a display of a device.

Claims (81)

1 . A method involving a computing device comprising a processor, and the method comprising:

executing, on the processor, instructions that cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

evaluating incident data associated with a first road segment to determine an incident trend for the first road segment;

identifying a set of factors associated with the first road segment;

calculating a first value by combining together a first subset of the set of factors that are indicative of the first road segment being dangerous;

calculating a second value by combining together a second subset of the set of factors that are indicative of the first road segment not being dangerous;

taking the incident trend into account when calculating at least one of the first value or the second value;

generating a first danger rating for the first road segment based upon a ratio of the first value to the second value;

assigning the first danger rating to the first road; and

displaying the first danger rating on a display of the computing device.

2 . The method of claim 1 , the operations comprising:

modifying a visual characteristic of the first road segment displayed on a map rendered on the display of the device based upon the first danger rating.

3 . The method of claim 1 , the operations comprising:

evaluating the factors to identify a causation factor having a likelihood above a threshold of being a cause of incidents along the first road segment.

4 . The method of claim 1 , the operations comprising:

in response to determining that a second road segment lacks a threshold amount of incident data for assigning a danger rating to the second road segment, comparing factors of the second road segment to the factors of the first road segment; and

in response to the factors of the second road segment having a similarity above a threshold to the factors of the first road segment, assigning a second danger rating to the second road segment based upon the first danger rating of the first road segment.

5 . The method of claim 1 , the operations comprising:

in response to determining that a factor of the factors associated with the first road segment has changed as a changed factor, updating the first danger rating based upon the changed factor.

6 . The method of claim 1 , the operations comprising:

generating a set of routes from a starting location to a destination location for a trip to be traveled by a user;

assigning danger ratings to road segments of the set of routes, wherein the danger ratings are based upon at least one of factors of the road segments, incident data for the road segments, or driver attributes of the user; and

displaying the set of routes and the danger ratings on the display of the device.

7 . The method of claim 1 , the operations comprising:

generating a set of routes from a starting location to a destination location for a trip to be traveled by a user;

assigning danger ratings to road segments of the set of routes, wherein the danger ratings are based upon at least one of factors of the road segments, incident data for the road segments, or vehicle attributes of a vehicle driven by the user; and

displaying the set of routes and the danger ratings on the display of the device.

8 . The method of claim 1 , the operations comprising:

generating a set of routes from a starting location to a destination location for a trip to be traveled by a user;

assigning danger ratings to road segments of the set of routes; and

displaying the set of routes and a comparison of travel times versus danger ratings for the set of routes on the display of the device.

9 . The method of claim 1 , the operations comprising:

in response to the first danger rating exceeding a danger threshold, displaying a warning about the first road segment.

10 . A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

memory comprising processor-executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

evaluating incident data associated with a first road segment to determine an incident trend for the first road segment;

identifying factors associated with the first road segment;

identifying a set of factors associated with the first road segment;

calculating a first value by combining together a first subset of the set of factors that are indicative of the first road segment being dangerous;

calculating a second value by combining together a second subset of the set of factors that are indicative of the first road segment not being dangerous;

taking the incident trend into account when calculating at least one of the first value or the second value;

generating a first danger rating for the first road segment based upon a ratio of the first value to the second value;

assigning the first danger rating to the first road; and

displaying the first danger rating on a display of the computing device.

11 . The computing device of claim 10 , the operations comprising:

predicting a likelihood that an accident will occur along the first road segment during a timeframe; and

displaying the likelihood that the accident will occur on the display of the device.

12 . The computing device of claim 10 , the operations comprising:

performing image analysis upon imagery of the first road segment to identify a factor for inclusion with the factors associated with the first road segment.

13 . The computing device of claim 10 , the operations comprising:

performing image analysis upon first imagery of the first road segment to identify a first factor of the first road segment;

performing the image analysis upon second imagery of a second road segment to identify a second factor of the second road segment; and

in response to the first factor corresponding to the second factor above a threshold, assigning a second danger rating to the second road segment based upon the first danger rating of the first road segment.

14 . The computing device of claim 10 , the operations comprising:

evaluating autonomous vehicle data to identify a factor for inclusion with the factors associated with the first road segment.

15 . The computing device of claim 10 , the operations comprising:

generating a driving profile for a driver associated with the device based upon one or more trips traveled by the driver; and

utilizing the driving profile to assign danger ratings to road segments along routes of future trips to be traveled by the driver.

16 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon processor-executable instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform operations comprising:

evaluating incident data associated with a first road segment to determine an incident trend for the first road segment;

identifying a set of factors associated with the first road segment;

calculating a first value by combining together a first subset of the set of factors that are indicative of the first road segment being dangerous;

calculating a second value by combining together a second subset of the set of factors that are indicative of the first road segment not being dangerous;

taking the incident trend into account when calculating at least one of the first value or the second value;

generating a first danger rating for the first road segment based upon a ratio of the first value to the second value;

assigning the first danger rating to the first road; and

displaying the first danger rating on a display of the computing device.

17 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , the operations comprising:

generating a set of routes from a starting location to a destination location for a trip to be traveled by a user;

assigning danger ratings to road segments of the set of routes, wherein the danger ratings are based upon at least one of demographic information of the user or demographic information of residents within a proximity distance threshold of the road segments; and

displaying the set of routes and the danger ratings on the display of the device.

18 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , the operations comprising:

assigning danger ratings to road segments of a set of routes as road safety data; and

reducing the road safety data to a reduced set of road safety data corresponding to percentages of road segments along the set of routes that correspond to values of danger ratings.

19 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , the operations comprising:

identifying trends of drivers across demographic profiles as trend data;

pre-populating a driving profile for a driver based upon a portion of the trend data corresponding to demographic profile information of the driver; and

utilizing the driving profile to assign danger ratings to road segments along routes of future trips to be traveled by the driver.

20 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , the operations comprising:

evaluating information corresponding to a planned road segment to be built to assign a danger rating for the planned road segment.

Assignments (3)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 28, 2023
From: RUNWAY GROWTH FINANCE CORP. (F/K/A RUNWAY GROWTH CREDIT FUND INC.)
To: INRIX, INC.
Reel/Frame 064159/0320 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 27, 2021
From: INRIX, INC.
To: RUNWAY GROWTH CREDIT FUND INC., AS AGENT
Reel/Frame 056372/0191 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 3, 2020
From: MISTELE, STEPHEN HENRY; ROONEY, KEVIN TOM; MACKEY, AIDAN JAMES JOHN; TALLIS, NICHOLAS ANDERS; MILLS, BRYN JOHN; SUMMERSON, JEFFREY ADAM
To: INRIX INC.
Reel/Frame 053684/0829 →