Travel routing selection system and methods implemented based on characterization of historical latency data

A travel route selection system is provided and includes historical latency data and travel route modules. The historical latency data module includes data and characterization modules. The data module collects historical latency data. The historical latency data are associated with transmission of signals in a network for one or more vehicle applications of a vehicle. The characterization module: obtains characteristic distributions of the historical latency data at selected locations along travel routes; based on the characteristic distributions, (i) calculates metrics along the travel routes for the vehicle, or (ii) combines the characteristic distributions to obtain an overall distribution for each of the travel routes; and based on the metrics or the overall distribution, performs a statistical process to predict latencies of the signals along each of the travel routes. The travel route module selects one of the travel routes based on the predicted latencies of the signals.