Connected and adaptive vehicle traffic management system with digital prioritization

A system for managing traffic signal priority comprising:

• a communication interface configured to receive vehicle data from a mobile device associated with a vehicle;
• a processor configured to:
• determine a Vehicle Score Stack (VSS) for the vehicle based on historical driving behavior accumulated over a plurality of trips by at least one of:
• monitoring historical route selections over a minimum time period,
• tracking temporal consistency of travel patterns, and
• detecting varying vehicle speed;
• monitor driver attention levels through at least one of:
• detection of usage of a mobile device,
• driver hand position on a steering wheel,
• measuring a following distance consistency, and
• consistency of vehicle control inputs;
• calculate a VSS boost wherein at least one of:
• a higher level of predictability and a lower distraction level results in an increase in VSS boost points,
• a consistent attention pattern results in additional VSS boost points;
• apply the VSS boost points to the VSS to compute a VSS value, wherein a higher VSS value results in increased traffic signal priority;
• transmit the traffic signal priority to a traffic signal controller;
• and
• the traffic signal controller configured to control operation of at least one traffic signal to provide priority signaling to the vehicle.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for managing traffic signal priority, the operations comprising:

• receiving vehicle data from a mobile device associated with a vehicle;
• determining a Vehicle Score Stack (VSS) for the vehicle based on historical driving behavior accumulated over a plurality of trips, the determining comprising at least one of:
• monitoring historical route selections over a minimum time period,
• tracking temporal consistency of travel patterns, and
• detecting varying vehicle speed;
• monitoring driver attention levels through at least one of:
• detection of usage of a mobile device,
• driver hand position on a steering wheel,
• measuring a following distance consistency, and
• consistency of vehicle control inputs;
• calculating a VSS boost wherein at least one of:
• a higher level of predictability and a lower distraction level results in an increase in VSS boost points,
• a consistent attention pattern results in additional VSS boost points;
• applying the VSS boost points to the VSS to compute a VSS value, wherein a higher VSS value results in increased traffic signal priority;
• and
• transmitting the traffic signal priority to a traffic signal controller to control operation of at least one traffic signal to provide priority signaling to the vehicle.