Research on driver experience based route planning method

Conventional navigation systems usually calculate routes based on costs of each road link, which may be length, speed limit, width, real-time traffic condition, etc. Therefore the routes planned by current navigation system may be shortest distance route, shortest time route, expressway used route, etc. However, due to inaccurate or delayed information, the calculated routes are not always satisfying. To solve the problem, our route planning method considers drivers´ experience, i.e. frequent routes. Frequent routes are the routes along which drivers usually drive between a pair of origin and destination. The route planning results based on frequent routes can fit to drivers´ preferences more precisely than conventional results.