Embodiments are directed to managing battery pack exchanges for an electric vehicle by maintaining current swap station information for a number of battery pack swap stations, receiving navigation information from the vehicle indicating a travel route of the vehicle, and receiving current vehicle information from the vehicle and related to a battery pack installed in the vehicle. A battery pack swap plan can be determined based on the swap station information, the navigation information, and the vehicle information. The plan can indicate a selected replacement battery pack at each of one or more selected battery pack swap stations. Information defining the battery pack swap plan can be provided to the selected battery pack swap stations and the vehicle. The stations can reserve the selected replacement battery pack and the vehicle can update the travel route based on the battery pack swap plan.

This document describes methods by which a system determines a pickup/drop-off zone (PDZ) to which a vehicle will navigate to perform a ride service request. The system will define a PDZ that is a geometric interval that is within a lane of a road at the requested destination of the ride service request by: (i) accessing map data that includes the geometric interval; (ii) using the vehicle's length and the road's speed limit at the destination to calculate a minimum allowable length for the PDZ; (iii) setting, start point and end point boundaries for the PDZ having an intervening distance that is equal to or greater than the minimum allowable length; and (iv) positioning the PDZ in the lane at or within a threshold distance from the requested destination. The system will then generate a path to guide the vehicle to the PDZ.

An information processing method, an information processing system, an information processing device, and an information terminal are configured to set a first time at which a vehicle will start traveling on a travel route based on an operation accepted from a user via a terminal, and set a second time at which a notification to the user will be issued based on a position of the terminal, a position of the vehicle, and the first time.

A system includes one or more processors that may determine one or more of an energy drag or a parasitic energy loss for upcoming planned travel of a vehicle along one or more routes based on externality information. The one or more processors may determine the one or more of the energy drag or the parasitic energy loss for each of plural, different route locations along the one or more routes and may change one or more aspects of the upcoming planned travel of the vehicle based on the one or more of energy drag or parasitic energy loss that is determined.

Techniques described herein provide for enhanced ultra-local navigation services for V2X devices (e.g., smartphones incorporating V2X chip sets). The V2X devices can transmit vehicle information to edge network devices (e.g., roadside units). The roadside units can be deployed at intersections or along roads to collect traffic information through various sensor inputs and V2X communications with multiple vehicles. The communication between V2X devices and the edge network devices can be accomplished through wireless communication (e.g., direct PC5 interface or through local Uu interface with edge computing. The edge network devices can perform local route optimization and compute one or more recommendations (e.g., a recommend route, a recommended speed, a recommended lane). The edge network devices can transmit the one or more recommendations via a wireless communication to the V2X devices. The V2X devices can display the recommendations to a user.

System and methods for determining traffic violation hotspots based on roadway feature and/or sensor data. Traffic violation hotspots include, for example areas where traffic violations are more likely to occur such as traffic light jumping, wrong way driving, over speeding, not wearing seatbelt, avoiding stop signs and red lights, distracted driving, passing other vehicles in a no-passing zone, among others. Embodiments further provide predictions for traffic accidents hotspots based on the presence or absence of the traffic violation hotspots.

Provided herein is a method of generating and communicating map version agnostic road link identifiers. Methods may include: receiving an indication of a new road link being joined to an existing road link along a length of the existing road link, where the existing road link extends between a first node and a second node, where the existing road link has a first road link identifier, and where a new node is formed where the new road link joins the existing road link; generating a first new identifier for a segment of the existing road link between the first node and the new node; generating a second new identifier for a segment of the existing road link between the new node and the second node, where the second new identifier is set equal to an XOR function of the first road link identifier and the first new identifier.

A navigation system includes: a control circuit configured to: generate a video clip by parsing an interval of a sensor data stream for a region of travel; analyze the video clip submitted to a deep learning model, already trained, including identifying a traffic flow estimate; access a position coordinate for calculating a distance to intersection; generate a traffic flow state by fusing a corrected speed, the traffic flow estimate, and the distance to intersection; merge a vehicle maneuvering instruction into the traffic flow state for maneuvering through the region of travel; and a communication circuit, coupled to the control circuit, configured to: communicate the traffic flow state for displaying on a device.

A systems and methods for ridesharing are provided. The systems and method can include splitting a plurality of GPS locations for a given vehicle into segments, determining a most probable location for each GPS location, and reconstructing the route, for a fleet of ridesharing vehicles.

To provide a route arbitration apparatus, an automatic driving controller, and an automatic driving and route arbitration system which can avoid an overlapping between travel routes and make vehicles carry out a traveling operation smoothly while considering priority between vehicles, in a broad perspective, about a multiple of vehicles existing in a periphery. A route arbitration apparatus receives a target travel route from each vehicle; when it is determined that a mutual overlapping of the target travel routes occurs, determines a priority travel area which is an area where the highest priority vehicle can travel in accordance with the target travel route, transmits the priority travel area to the highest priority vehicle, determines an avoidance travel area which is an area where the low priority vehicle can travel while avoiding the priority travel area, and transmits the avoidance travel area to the low priority vehicle.