Thanks for the encouragement.
Piwoslaw, my idea for the project would to give you the IDEAL velocity profile for the trip. If congestion gets in the way of the route, its just part of the inefficiencies of the trip.
I tend to get in way over my head with projects that are too detailed for me to accomplish... I want to start simple with simple outcomes.
I've got some MATLAB experience, but it may be hard to get your hands on it if anyone wants to help out so I'm going to try to just use Excel and for now try to keep it open source so people can use it.
I'm gonna list the algorithms in the thread so people can correct me when I screw it up