Here Global B.v.

Navteq North America, LLC

Lawrence M Peterson

Bishnu P Phuyal

Finn Swingley

Victoria Leila Tanzar

Michael Brian Lane

Matthew Richard Zdano

William King Sedore

A method and system for obtaining traffic information from mobile Bluetooth detectors is disclosed. A mobile Bluetooth detector is a device located in a moving vehicle that includes Bluetooth and GPS firmware for collecting data from Bluetooth enabled devices. The mobile Bluetooth detector transmits the collected data to a remote facility where the data is processed to generate traffic information. A pair of mobile Bluetooth detectors may be used to collect data for generating ground truth.

Obtaining vehicle traffic information using mobile bluetooth detectors

A method is disclosed for developing traffic messages. The method obtains traffic data indicating collected traffic speeds at various locations on a road network. Traffic messages are developed from the traffic data. The method obtains ground truth data indicating ground truth speeds at a subset of the locations on the road network. The ground truth speed represents average speed of vehicles at one of the locations. For those locations for which ground truth speed has been obtained, the method computes a traffic quality value comparing the collected traffic speed to the ground truth speed for the location. The traffic messages and traffic quality data representative of the traffic quality values are transmitted.

Method of developing traffic messages

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Downers Grove, IL, United States of America

Lawrence M Peterson