The present disclosure relates to navigational systems, devices, and methods for preparing route guidance information that incorporates user needs—and ensures fulfilment of those needs under a variety of conditions. In particular, this disclosure relates to preparing route guidance information that ensures a user is directed along a route that includes stops where various needs such as e.g. medical, food, or water can be met while also minimizing traffic. Such a system may be useful, for example, when evacuating from a metro region in the face of an oncoming natural disaster such as a hurricane.

A method for enabling a route for automated driving operation of a vehicle involves enabling a route ahead of the vehicle for automated driving operation of the vehicle if it is determined, using a digital map, which is used during automated driving operation for landmark-based localization of the vehicle, that there are landmarks present along the route which, with regard to their suitability for longitudinal and transverse localization of the vehicle, fulfil requirements which are predefined according to a course of the route.

Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer storage media, for content delivery in real-time guided navigation. A device can be configured to identify location information for the device and provide navigation instructions to the device based on at least the location information and an identified destination. The device can access scheduling information indicating an availability of a user of the device, and determine based on the scheduling information, whether to provide content related to one or more places of interest. When it is determined to provide the content, the device can determine a timing for output of the content in relation to output of the navigation instructions.

Route provisioning techniques for an autonomous driving feature of a vehicle include receiving a user-generated route generated by a user using a second map database that differs from a first map database of the vehicle that stores a road graph specifying nodes and links representative of a map of roads proximate to the vehicle and specifies an array of geo-points between a current geo-location of the vehicle and a final geo-location for the vehicle, determining, using the road graph maintained by the first map database, a set of valid routes from the current geo-location to the final geo-location ordered based on relative likelihood, determining a best route from the set of valid routes based on a weighted comparison between each route of the set of valid routes and the user-generated route, and utilizing the selected route for control of the autonomous driving feature.

System and methods are provided for calculating a lane maneuver delay for different lane maneuvers and different road segments at different times of the day to generate a predicted lane maneuver delay for use in routing and navigation services. A lane-level map-matcher identifies the lane a vehicle is driving on using positional sensors. Sensor data is obtained from vehicle sensors using the left-turn and right-turn signal lights sensor. A lane maneuver delay value is calculated from the time period a left-turn or right-turn signaling light was kept on before a vehicle completed a lane maneuver. The lane maneuver delay values are aggregated to generate a predicted lane maneuver delay that may be used in lane level routing instructions.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for simulating outcomes for use in navigating procedures for resource acquisition. The system is configured for identifying initiation of at least one event by a user via an entity application, wherein the at least one event is associated with acquisition of a first resource, in response to identifying initiation of the at least one event, extracting user data associated with the user, identifying one or more procedures associated with the acquisition of the first resource, compiling the user data and the one or more procedures to generate one or more navigational recommendations associated with the acquisition of the first resource, transmitting the one or more navigational recommendations to a user device of the user, and transmitting a set of control signals to display the one or more navigational recommendations on a graphical user interface of the user device, via the entity application.

A computational system estimating an energy consumption of a vehicle operated by a driver, the computational system includes a job progress calculator configured to calculate a job progress that is a delay time from a scheduled time on a simulation, an operation tendency storage configured to store tendency information that is a combination of a driver ID that is an identifier of the driver, the job progress, and an operation tendency of the vehicle, an operation tendency reader configured to read the operation tendency of the driver from the tendency information, using the job progress calculated by the job progress calculator, and the driver ID of the driver who is an computation target and a simulation computer configured to calculate the energy consumption of the vehicle, based on the operation tendency read by the operation tendency reader, with respect to each driver who is the computation target.

Apparatuses and methods for determining a route are provided. In some examples, the method comprises: receiving measurements of one or more motion sensors of a mobile device disposed in a vehicle; selecting, based on a start time and an end time of a first route, a subset of the measurements; determining, based on the subset of the measurements, turns or stops made by the vehicle as part of the first route and their directions; determining, based on the subset of the measurements, distances of path segments traveled by the vehicle between the turns or stops; constructing an estimated route including a sequence of the turns or stops and path segments; selecting, based on comparing the estimated route and a plurality of candidates routes from a map, the first route; and displaying the map including the first route.

Systems and methods are presented for providing dynamic in-vehicle content. A path of a vehicle is predicted, and an intersection is identified along the predicted path. Based on vehicle status data, a determination is made as to whether the vehicle is decelerating along the predicted path within a threshold distance of the intersection. In response to determining that the vehicle is decelerating along the predicted path within the threshold distance of the intersection, a further determination is made as to whether a geographical location of the intersection is associated with a content item. In response to determining that the geographical location of the intersection is associated with the content item, the content item is presented via an entertainment device of the vehicle.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for generating information. A method may include: determining, according to received positioning request information, visiting information for a target area of interest, the visiting information including location information of at least one visiting point; determining, according to the location information of the at least one visiting point, a visiting point distribution map including the at least one visiting point; performing grid division on the visiting point distribution map, to obtain a first grid map including at least one grid; and generating, based on the first grid map, outline information for the target area of interest.