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Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2021
Applicant:

Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rifat Berk, San Francisco, CA (US);

Joseph Kelly Barker, Portland, OR (US);

Pranav Deepak Agrawal, Seattle, WA (US);

Vineet Khosla, Pacifica, CA (US);

Nishanth Mohan, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3453 (2013.01); G01C 21/3446 (2013.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A transportation management system generates routing guidance from an origin location to a destination location by modifying edge weights in a graph of a geographic location to penalize difficult immediate maneuvers. Responsive to receiving a routing request, the system identifies a position of a provider device in a base map having edges representing road segments and nodes representing intersections between road segments. A sub-graph is generated for the edges in the base graph located up to a threshold distance from the origin location, and the system modifies the weight of one or more edges in the sub-graph corresponding to a difficult immediate maneuver. When applying a routing algorithm to generate the routing guidance, the system uses the edge weights of the generated sub-graph for a first portion of the routing guidance and the original edge weights of the base graph for a second portion of the routing guidance.


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