Modifying travel estimates based on schedule anxiety

A method comprising:

• determining, using a hardware measurement circuit, travel parameters comprising a current speed limit, current weather, a current road condition, current traffic, a current time of day, and a current schedule anxiety, wherein the current speed limit is measured using a global positioning system (GPS) to determine a current location and the current speed limit is retrieved from a map for the current location, the current traffic is determined from a camera, the current time of day is determined from a clock, the current weather is determined from an optical image from the camera, a relative arrival time is calculated as an inverse of a late arrival time, wherein the late arrival time is minutes that a specified driver will arrive late, and a current schedule anxiety is calculated as a difference between a nonzero constant value and the relative arrival time;
• storing, using a memory, the travel parameters to a travel record of the plurality of travel records each time a specified driver drives to a location;
• modifying, using a hardware modification circuit, an arrival time travel estimate based on a driver profile for the specified driver calculated from the travel parameters and the plurality of travel records, the driver profile comprising a speed based on a speed limit, a speed based on weather, a speed based on the road conditions, a speed based on traffic, a speed based on time of day, and a speed based on current schedule anxiety, wherein the speed based on current schedule anxiety SA is calculated as SA=k*CSL*CA/(Σ(SI*AI/N) where k is a nonzero constant, CSL is the current speed limit, SI is the speed for a given travel record of a plurality of travel records, CA is the current schedule anxiety, AI is the schedule anxiety for the given travel record, and N is the number of the plurality of travel records;
• updating, using the modification circuit, the driver profile in the memory with the current schedule anxiety and the speed based on the current schedule anxiety;
• and
• presenting, using a display, the modified arrival time estimate.

A system comprising:

• a server;
• a dedicated navigation device in communication with the server and comprising:
• a display;
• a global positioning system (GPS);
• a memory storing maps and a plurality of travel records;
• a clock;
• a camera;
• a hardware measurement circuit that determines travel parameters comprising a current speed limit, current weather, a current road condition, current traffic, a current time of day, and a current schedule anxiety, wherein the current speed limit is measured using the GPS to determine a current location and the current speed limit is retrieved from the map for the current location, the current traffic is determined from the camera, the current time of day is determined from the clock, the current weather is one of determined from an optical image from the camera and downloaded from the server, a relative arrival time is calculated as an inverse of a late arrival time, wherein the late arrival time is minutes that a specified driver will arrive late, and a current schedule anxiety is calculated as a difference between a nonzero constant value and the relative arrival time;
• the memory stores the travel parameters to a travel record of the plurality of travel records each time a specified driver drives to a location;
• a hardware modification circuit that modifies an arrival time travel estimate based on a driver profile for the specified driver calculated from the travel parameters and the plurality of travel records, the driver profile comprising a speed based on a speed limit, a speed based on weather, a speed based on the road conditions, a speed based on traffic, a speed based on time of day, and a speed based on current schedule anxiety, wherein the speed based on current schedule anxiety SA is calculated as SA=k*CSL*CA/(Σ(SI*AI/N) where k is a nonzero constant, CSL is the current speed limit, SI is the speed for a given travel record of a plurality of travel records, CA is the current schedule anxiety, AI is the schedule anxiety for the given travel record, and N is the number of the plurality of travel records;
• the modification circuit further updates the driver profile in the memory with the current schedule anxiety and the speed based on the current schedule anxiety;
• and
• the display presents the modified arrival time estimate.