Traffic Disturbances
OwnerRoderick Allen McConnellinventor
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Abstract
An example system learns from traffic disturbances or perturbations to improve overall traffic flow. The perturbations may be related to specific times such as morning rush hour, or for all times of day. The improvement to overall traffic flow may be measured by time lost in traffic delays, or by time of travel, or by risk of accidents.
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A method of controlling traffic flow, whereby traffic flow is measured with and without perturbations, and when a perturbation is determined to improve the traffic flow, the effect of the perturbation is recreated at a later time to improve traffic flow as compared to traffic flow without the perturbation.
A traffic control system which learns from traffic perturbations.
A vehicle suited and adapted to participate in a self-improving traffic control system, whereby the vehicle is suited to provide departure and arrival time information, and indications of, or information which can be used to identify, traffic perturbations along the route between departure and arrival.
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