A travel plan generation device generates a travel plan in which a vehicle passes through a first supply facility for supplying energy for travel of the vehicle, acquires supply availability information on the energy of the first supply facility at a predetermined timing after the vehicle starts traveling based on the generated travel plan, determines whether or not supply of energy is available at the first supply facility based on the supply availability information, when determining that the supply of the energy is not available at the first supply facility, identifies a second supply facility different from the first supply facility, and generates the travel plan in which the vehicle passes through the second supply facility instead of the first supply facility.

A communication technology for communication between at least one application and an external device uses subscriber identification modules that correspond, respectively, to wireless communication services. In the technology, first information for determination of a received strength of a reference signal is acquired for each of the wireless communication services. In the technology, second information for determination of a delay time allowed by the at least one application is acquired. In the technology, a wireless communication service is selected from among the wireless communication services for the communication based on the first information and the second information.

Embodiments described herein may provide a method for analyzing traffic congestion at a toll plaza and identifying a preferred lane of travel through the toll plaza based on the traffic congestion. Methods may include: determining active toll lanes of all toll lanes at a toll plaza; obtaining probe data for each active toll lane at the toll plaza; determining lane-wise congestion for each active toll lane at the toll plaza; identifying a preferred lane of the active toll lanes; and providing for at least one of a navigational instruction or at least semi-autonomous vehicle control to enter or continue in the preferred lane.

Some embodiments of the invention provide several novel methods for generating a navigation presentation that displays a device navigating a route on a map. The method of some embodiments uses a virtual camera that, based on detected changes in the navigation context, dynamically modifies the way it captures portions of the map to produce different navigation scenes in the navigation presentation. To generate the navigation scenes, the method of some embodiments (1) identifies different sets of attributes that describe the different navigation contexts at different times during the navigation presentation, and (2) uses these different sets of attributes to identify different styles for operating the virtual camera. In some embodiments, the method uses an identified style to specify the virtual camera's positional attributes, which, in turn, define the portions of the map that the virtual camera identifies for rendering to produce several navigation scenes for a period of time (e.g., until the navigation context changes, or until the navigation presentation ends when the navigation context does not change again). During the navigation presentation, each time the navigation context changes, the identified set of attributes may change. This change, in turn, may cause the method of some embodiments to select a new style for operating the virtual camera. When the style for operating the virtual camera changes, the method of some embodiments modifies the way the virtual camera captures the portion of the map to render.

An improved guidance system and method provide a packaged tour object having tour directions and media related to points of interest of a tour for playing via a telematics unit. A user is provided, via their telematics unit, with specific directions to access points of interest of the tour in a certain sequence, while the telematics unit optionally conveys media content to the user at appropriate points. The media content may be keyed to an upcoming site, and may comprise audio and/or visual information. In addition, user convenience information such as parking and ticketing information may be contained ion the packaged tour object for presentation via the telematics unit.

A method is provided for determining and verifying lane closures using lane-level map-matching to monitor all lanes of a road. Methods may include: receiving a plurality of probe data points, where the probe data points; map-matching the probe data points to one or more road segments; determining, for the probe data points, lanes of travel of the one or more road segments; determining a volume of traffic along the lanes of travel of the one or more road segments based on the lanes of travel of the one or more road segments determined for the probe data; determining an expected volume of traffic along the lanes of travel; and generating an indication of a lane closure in response to a volume of traffic along a first lane of travel of the one or more road segments being a predetermined amount below an expected volume of traffic.

A path providing device for providing a route to a vehicle includes a first communication module configured to receive a high-definition (HD) map information from an external server, a second communication module configured to receive external information generated by an external device located within a predetermined range from the vehicle, and a processor configured to generate forward path information for guiding the vehicle based on the HD map and provide the forward path information to at least one of electric components provided in the vehicle. The processor is configured to generate dynamic information related to an object to be sensed by the at least one of the electric components based on the external information and to match the dynamic information to the forward path information.

Vehicular movement detection systems and methods are disclosed. A computing device is configured to monitor sensor data and location data associated with a first user device including one or more sensors, and monitor traffic data associated with a location of the first user device based on the sensor data and location data. In response to the data, the computing device determines whether to provide a user-selectable message to the first user device based on a vehicle speed, proximity to a destination, and vehicle speed relative to traffic speed. The user-selectable message comprises a prompt configured to transmit a search request for a listing location. In response to the determination, the user-selectable message is provided to the first user device. In response to receiving a search request, the computing device is configured to transmit instructions to the first user device to direct the first user device to a first listing location.

In one embodiment, a vehicle identifier (ID) and vehicle information of a first autonomous vehicle is transmitted to a cloud server over a network, where the cloud server is communicatively coupled to a plurality of autonomous vehicles. A list of one or more vehicle identifiers (IDs) are received from the cloud server. The vehicle IDs identify one or more autonomous vehicles are within a predetermined geographic proximity of the first autonomous vehicle. The first autonomous vehicle communicates with a second autonomous vehicle that is selected from the list of one or more autonomous vehicles via a wireless local area network to exchange an operational status of the first autonomous vehicle with the second autonomous vehicle.

An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a transport, an energy transfer condition exists along a route, routing, by the transport, to a location on the route based on the energy transfer condition exceeding an energy transfer value and based on one or more traffic conditions, aligning, by the transport, a position of the transport at the location to wirelessly receive an energy transfer, and receiving, by the transport, the energy transfer while the transport is in motion.