Patent 7706965 was granted and assigned to INRIX on April, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from road traffic sensors (e.g., physical sensors that are near or embedded in the roads) and/or from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads. The assessment of road traffic conditions based on obtained sensor data readings and/or other data samples may include various filtering and/or conditioning of the data samples, and various inferences and probabilistic determinations of traffic-related characteristics of interest. Assessing obtained data may further include determining traffic conditions (e.g., traffic flow and/or average traffic speed) for various portions of a road network in a particular geographic area, based at least in part on obtained data samples.