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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
May. 14, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Lucien Pech, Zurich, CH;
Albert Graells, Zurich, CH;
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for recommending time independent or 'guidebook' transit routes between an origin and a destination are provided. A score is generated for each transit route. The score can be used to evaluate and prioritize the transit routes so that one or more transit routes can be recommended to a user. The score can be computed based on characteristics of a trip duration function generated for the transit route. The trip duration function specifies a trip cost (e.g. a trip duration) for the transit route as a function of time (such as departure time or arrival time) over the time interval. The trip duration function can be a piecewise linear function with one or more linear trip segments. Each linear trip segment models the trip cost, including waiting time, of a transit trip associated with the transit route over at least a portion of the time interval.