Traffic delay indication

A non-transitory computer readable medium which stores a set of instructions which when executed performs a method of indicating traffic delays in a navigation system for planning a route of a vehicle, the method executed by the set of instructions comprising:

• receiving traffic information including position information of each one of a number of delay incidents and an expected delay caused by each one of the number of delay incidents,
• filtering the received traffic information to select delay incidents that are on a planned route;
• determining a position of a vehicle on a planned route,
• processing each one of the delay incidents on the planned route to select at least one of the delay incidents as a relevant delay incident, said processing comprising determining if the distance to the respective delay incident along the planned route from the position of the vehicle is less than a predetermined distance and the expected delay caused by the respective delay incident is greater than a predetermined time, and
• generating display map data associated with the planned route to graphically display on a display and configured to generate a graphic representation associated with the selected delay incident to graphically display on the display the graphic representation being at a linear position along the traffic bar and proportional to the position of the relevant delay incident as compared to the position of the vehicle and a destination.

A method of indicating traffic delays in a navigation system for planning a route of a vehicle, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a receiver, traffic information including position information of each one of a number of delay incidents and an expected delay caused by each one of the number of delay incidents;
• filtering said received traffic information to select delay incidents that are on a planned route;
• storing, by a memory, the received traffic information;
• determining, by a processor, a position of the vehicle on the planned route;
• processing each one of the delay incidents on the planned route to select at least one of the delay incidents as a relevant delay incident, said processing comprising determining if the distance to the respective delay incident along the planned route from the position of the vehicle is less than a predetermined distance and the expected delay caused by the respective delay incident is greater than a predetermined time;
• generating a display map data associated with the planned route to graphically display on a display;
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• generating a graphic representation associated with the selected at least one delay incident to graphically display on the display, the graphic representation being at a linear position along the traffic bar and proportional to the position of the at least one delay incident as compared to the position of the vehicle and a destination.