A method and apparatus for predicting a location where a vehicle appears

An apparatus for predicting a location where a vehicle appears, comprising:

• a first obtaining unit, configured for obtaining at least one type of target static attribute information of a target vehicle to be predicted;
• a first determination unit, configured for determining, according to passing vehicle record information of a current road checkpoint, at least one vehicle set corresponding to the at least one type of target static attribute information within a preset historical time period, wherein one type of target static attribute information corresponds to one vehicle set;
• a second determination unit, configured for determining a first set of numbers of historical passes of the target vehicle, and determining a second set of numbers of historical passes of each vehicle set, wherein the first set of numbers of historical passes comprises the number of historical passes of the target vehicle from the current road checkpoint to each of adjacent road checkpoints, and the second set of numbers of historical passes of one vehicle set comprises the number of historical passes of a vehicle in this vehicle set from the current road checkpoint to each of adjacent road checkpoints, and the adjacent road checkpoints are road checkpoints adjacent to the current road checkpoint;
• a third determination unit, configured for determining a passing probability set of the target vehicle from the current road checkpoint to all of the adjacent road checkpoints according to the first set of numbers of historical passes and the second set of numbers of historical passes of each vehicle set;
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• a fourth determination unit, configured for determining an adjacent road checkpoint corresponding to the maximum passing probability in the passing probability set as a target road checkpoint where the target vehicle appears after passing the current road checkpoint.