DE102015122893A1 - Method and system for traffic control - Google Patents

Abstract

A solution for traffic control with a view to reducing the number of traffic-related stops of road users (11-1n) is presented. Mobile information devices (21-2n), which are carried by road users (11-1n), transmit data at least to the current position of a respective road user (11-1n) as well as to his current speed via radio to a processing device (5) coupled to Objects of the street equipment stationarily arranged traffic control devices (31, 32). From the data received by the processing device (5) of a first traffic control device (31, 32) data of all in the range of this first traffic control device (31, 32) information devices (21-2n) are parameters for the control of a with the first traffic control device (31 , 32) in operatively connected traffic signal device (41, 42) derived. If necessary, a message with a recommended movement speed is additionally transmitted to the traffic participant (11-1n) moving in the direction of this traffic signal device (41, 42).

Description

The invention relates to a solution which allows a very flexible traffic control with regard to at least a reduction in the number of traffic-related stops of road users. In this case, the invention relates in particular to an activation of traffic signal devices in direct adaptation to the respective actual traffic conditions or to the traffic situation and to the active targeted influencing of the traffic behavior of the road users according to these circumstances. In this context, traffic signal devices should be understood to mean active facilities of the street equipment, such as, in particular, traffic lights and barriers for alternately releasing and blocking the traffic, but not passive traffic signs or other static traffic symbols and displays. Objects of the invention are a corresponding method and a system suitable for carrying it out.

Road equipment includes road markings, vehicle restraint systems such as guardrails, of course street lighting equipment, signage and information facilities, but above all facilities for directly influencing traffic. The latter include, in particular, traffic signs and active traffic signal devices. Under traffic signal devices in the context of the statements on the invention and the claims light signal systems, but also electrically operated barriers are to be understood, even if the function of the latter barriers beyond a pure signaling function. With regard to the control of the traffic flow, traffic lights or traffic lights play an outstanding role.

Such traffic signal systems often have a fixed signal sequence, according to which a traffic light between the signal phases green, yellow and red changes.

Such a fixed signal sequence depends on a signal schedule stored in corresponding control and switching devices of the respective traffic light.

In addition, traffic lights or traffic lights with a contrast somewhat more flexible signal sequence are in widespread use. In such traffic signal systems, the signal sequence is variable day and / or time of day dependent or it is changed due to a central control by a traffic control center for certain periods of time according to different criteria. Here, the switching behavior of the traffic signal systems can be set in a certain traffic-dependent. However, this is basically only indirectly given the traffic dependence of the signal sequence in the case of a daily and / or daytime-dependent change. Corresponding changes in the signal sequence are based on empirical values on the basis of which different traffic volumes can be expected at different times.

However, a somewhat more flexible measure is the influence on the switching behavior of traffic signal devices (limitation systems possibly included here) with the aid of embedded in the road induction loops. A disadvantage of this is that due to the usually occurring arrangement of the induction loops in the immediate vicinity of the traffic signal devices only a relatively short reaction time for road users is given. In addition, it may happen that road users traveling on subordinate roads may first have to pass a larger group or several groups of vehicles on the superordinate infrastructure before they can continue their own journey. Furthermore, the concerns of pedestrians, which are also calculated in the context of the invention described explicitly to the road users, basically not taken into account.

Another form of traffic control by means of traffic signal devices has been established in the form of so-called priority circuits. Examples include priority circuits for trams or special priority circuits for emergency and rescue vehicles. Also pedestrian demand signals for manually operated request for a green signal can be expected in a broader sense.

With regard to an active traffic influence, it is also due to the DE 10 2004 052 984 A1 become known that the leaders of vehicles in the area of traffic lights via electronic displays information about the respective remaining duration of the green phase is given. Furthermore, in the DE 10 2012 006 708 A1 describes a motor vehicle with a man-machine interface, via which an average speed can be received by the vehicle and its driver, in compliance with the next traffic light system is achieved in green. The solution described offers advantages but only to users who participate in traffic with appropriately equipped vehicles.

By the DE 196 01 024 A1 describes a solution which, using the GPS (Global Positioning System) an optimization of the Travel times of vehicles with special rights by a targeted influencing the traffic light phases allows. In this case, the emergency vehicles equipped with corresponding GPS units transmit data to their respective position to a central traffic control center, in which a traffic control computer specifically influences the traffic light phases on the probable travel path of a respective emergency vehicle.

The object of the invention is to provide a solution which compared to the prior art allows an even more flexible traffic control, in particular with regard to the reduction of the number of traffic-related stops in favor of a large number of road users. The appropriate solution should also allow the inclusion of pedestrians as road users. For this purpose, a method and a system suitable for carrying out the method are to be specified.

The object is achieved by a method having the features of patent claim 1. A problem-solving and suitable for carrying out the process system is characterized by the first claim. Advantageous embodiments or further developments of the invention are given by the respective subclaims.

According to the proposed method for solving the problem are transmitted by information devices, which are carried by road users, at least once, preferably repeatedly time periodically data to facilities that are stationary arranged on objects of street equipment. The mobile information devices are either mobile terminals, which are carried by the road users themselves, for example pedestrians themselves, or terminals which are coupled to vehicles used by the road users in traffic. The latter can also be arranged as fixed installations on or in motor vehicles, but in the following textual simplification should generally be spoken of by mobile information devices, irrespective of whether they are mobile terminals carried by the road users themselves or terminals on or in vehicles , Terminals of the latter type are considered in this respect as mobile information devices, as they can be considered in connection with the movement of the vehicles, on or in which they are arranged as mobile. This understanding is also based on the patent claims. With regard to mobile, carried by the road users themselves terminals come for use for implementing the method in particular also smartphones or tablet PCs with appropriate software and functionality into consideration. These mobile information units are also regardless of whether they are carried by a road user, such as a pedestrian, directly themselves or in or on a vehicle, as carried by a road user mobile information device or mobile information device of a road user.

According to the proposed method, the mobile information devices transmit data at least to the current position of a respective road user carrying them or in a vehicle together with their current speed via radio to the already mentioned facilities on objects of the street equipment. The stationary arranged on the objects of the street equipment facilities are to be referred to further in terms of their priority function as traffic control facilities. Based on the concept of street equipment explained above, the objects to which said traffic control devices are stationarily arranged are, in particular, traffic signal devices, namely traffic light systems, such as traffic lights, and control systems, said devices and systems being to be grouped under the term traffic signal device. However, it is also an arrangement of the traffic control devices on traffic signs or on facilities of street lighting. Road markings, which are usually also attributed to the street equipment, should not be regarded as objects of street equipment according to this understanding and come for obvious reasons for the stationary arrangement of traffic control systems rather out of the question.

For data communication with mobile information devices of the road users is or the traffic control devices are equipped with at least one transmitting and receiving unit. They are further coupled to a processing device. The latter relates to the fact that such a processing device can either be an immediate component of a traffic control device designed for carrying out the method, or can be arranged in a central location in the manner of a central computer and this can be arranged with a plurality corresponding traffic control devices is coupled and interacts. In the latter case, the coupling can be realized both radio-based and wired, namely via an electrical or optical network.

According to the presented method, data received by the processing device of a traffic control device is aggregated and processed by all mobile information devices located within the range of the at least one transmitting and receiving unit of the traffic control device concerned. As a result of this processing, from the data received from the mobile information devices, ie from the data, at least the position and the speed of the respective mobile information devices with leading road users, derived parameters for controlling a traffic signal device operatively connected to the aforementioned traffic control device. With the aid of the abovementioned parameters derived from the data received from the mobile information devices, the respective traffic signal device (in particular traffic lights or barrier system) is actuated to release or block the traffic in one or different directions and / or with respect to the temporal sequence to signals to be output by the traffic signal device , In the case of a traffic signal or traffic light, the last-mentioned signals are the signals "green", "yellow", "red" and "red-yellow", which may be output separately for turn lanes, in the case of a barrier system respective signal given by the states "barrier open" or "barrier closed", the latter may be supplemented by a red flashing signal lamp.

If necessary, a message is also generated by the processing means of the traffic control device on the basis of the data received from the at least one transmission and reception unit of the traffic control device and transmitted to road users in the direction of the traffic control device moving mobile information devices and / or output means of facilities of street equipment , which contains information on a movement speed, the road users, who move towards the traffic signal device in operative connection with the traffic control device, is likely to allow passing of this traffic signal device without traffic-related stop. Of course, in this case, the transmission of corresponding information about a preferred speed of movement to be maintained by means of the message addressed, preferably taking into account the locally permissible maximum speed. The movement speed recommended in this respect or the corresponding information transmitted by means of the message will therefore refer regularly to a speed which is lower than the locally permissible speed. With regard to an eventual supplementation of the control of traffic signal devices by messages with speed information, which are transmitted to the carried by the road users mobile information devices or to output means (scoreboards, display or the like) of facilities of street equipment, further details in connection with the illustration of an embodiment are given.

As stated, the mobile information device of a road user transmits data on the instantaneous position and speed of the information device and thus of the road user at least once, but preferably repeatedly periodically. The one-time transmission of corresponding data is particularly suitable, for example, if only a traffic control device receiving this data and evaluating it by means of the coupled processing device is provided in a traffic infrastructure. In that regard, an actually actually repeated transmission of corresponding data should then be regarded as a single emission when the transmission of data in large time intervals or, in terms of the distances traveled by a road user, repeats after bridging large distances. Corresponding could be given, for example, if in a first village only one equipped with a traffic control device traffic signal device is provided and a road user, for example, after a long journey with a vehicle, sometime reaches a second town with also only a traffic control device and then again by his information device again, so to speak, once corresponding data are sent out.

In contrast, the preferred time periodically repeated transmission of preferably by a plurality of arranged in a narrower space, such as a local traffic control device or its transmitting and receiving units data is available. However, as far as the one-time or at large intervals or the occasionally repeated transmission of data already mentioned several times (instantaneous position and speed of an information device), so makes their transmission sense only in the vicinity of a corresponding ready to receive traffic control device. The same could for example be triggered by a navigation device cooperating with the information device in a vehicle, which "knows" the position of a traffic control device ready to receive. Also it would be conceivable the sending time on the basis of in the To determine ways of car-to-car communication from other road users or their mobile information devices received information.

As far as in this context is spoken in each case by a first traffic control device in claim 1, this is due to the fact that preferably several such traffic control devices are part of the public transport infrastructure, but in the claim the method in terms of a single considered in this context traffic control device and their Active compounds and in terms of the relationships of this traffic control device with the other, the system underlying elements is characterized. In that regard, it should be made clear that the corresponding statements in the claim relate to one and the same of possibly several traffic control devices.

Of the two options considered with regard to the result of the evaluation of the data received from the mobile information devices, the derivation of parameters for the control of a traffic signal device operatively connected to the traffic control device clearly takes precedence. This is due to the fact that in particular corresponding traffic signal devices, such as traffic lights or traffic lights, are the cause of traffic-related stops whose number is to be reduced by using the method according to the invention. With regard to traffic lights, a kind of "green wave" should therefore be reached, as it were, primarily for road users, by means of which traffic-related stops at the traffic light systems are largely avoided. Only insofar as necessary, in this context, are the road users, more specifically their speed of movement, influenced by the fact that the mobile information equipment carried by the road users and / or the means of distribution of facilities of the street equipment (variable display devices for the indication of speed recommendations) Information on a passing the next traffic signal device is expected to be transmitted without stopping speed. Based on the priority orientation of the method to a specific influence on the switching behavior of traffic signal devices, the invention benefits a larger number of road users, including those who do not carry a corresponding mobile traffic control device with them. In this case, a certain penetration of the road users with corresponding mobile information devices already suffices to make the advantages of the invention effective for a far greater number of road users and in the interest of overall fluid traffic.

Insofar as corresponding information is transmitted to the mobile information devices of the traffic participants moving towards the traffic signal device, they can be output at the mobile information devices either as an immediate speed indication (indication of a speed value, for example in the form 45 km / h) or indirect information as "slower". In a further development of the method, it is however also conceivable that this is still data designated as data, which in turn is evaluated in the receiving mobile information devices and with appropriate vehicle equipment and used for direct control of the vehicle speed influencing actuators.

In this way, it can be achieved that, under certain circumstances, a traffic signal device can also pass without stopping in sidelined traveling paths with respect to a heavily traveled main driving route. Due to the influence on the speed of the moving traffic on the main road users by means of the transmitted to their mobile information devices and / or output means of facilities of street equipment speed information can be achieved that despite high traffic gaps within the traffic on the main traffic arise, which make it possible to enable the road users on the sibling traffic path or road users of the cross traffic to pass through this traffic signal device for a short time by appropriate switching of the traffic signal device.

As already stated, the data exchange takes place between the mobile information devices of the road users and a respective traffic control device according to the solution described here by radio. With regard to the transmission technologies available today, data exchange via the mobile radio network, via WLAN or via Bluetooth is particularly suitable for this purpose. However, it should be noted that about Bluetooth has a maximum range of 100 m according to the current specifications. Depending on the reaction time of the system, but in particular taking into account the responsiveness of information about a recommended speed of movement, it may be a small distance in some cases. Larger ranges, however, can be in a radio transmission using the Reach Wi-Fi standards. In terms of range is basically not limited to communication via a mobile network. However, in individual cases, the signal propagation times within the mobile radio network could have a limiting effect here. Therefore, according to the current state of data transmission over a WLAN radio network in a practical implementation of the method may be preferable. It should be emphasized, however, that neither the method nor the system to be described are limited to use of the WLAN standard.

Radio waves are known to have the property to spread on all sides. In that regard, it must be ensured that, in the case of a transmission of information on a traffic signal device without stop enabling speed by several, for example, located within a city area and each standing with a traffic signal device in an operative connection traffic control devices, corresponding information processed in each case only by the mobile information devices and optionally evaluated to control actuators influencing the speed, which move towards a respective traffic control device. The same can be ensured, for example, by assigning a (preferably temporarily valid) unique ID to the road users by the respective traffic control device or its processing device for the mobile information devices. Using such an ID, it is then possible, for example, for those mobile information devices which are to move to a respective traffic control device to be addressed selectively with information to be evaluated by them for a recommended movement speed.

The allocation of such an ID may also be necessary or expedient in the case of a high traffic volume on a traffic route. Thus, it may be provided, for example, with the already mentioned creation of a gap between moving on a main traffic route road users to allow the passing of a traffic signal system by road users subordinate traffic routes that such a gap between a vehicle with a by the ID 10 designated mobile information device and a vehicle behind it, whose mobile information device, the ID 11 received, should be created. Now stops the road user, which or his vehicle, the mobile information device with the ID 11 does not follow the information provided by the traffic control unit about a recommended speed, the desired gap does not arise. However, it may then be provided that a traffic signal system (traffic light) operatively connected to the traffic control device in question is temporarily switched to red on the main traffic route or the higher traffic route, thus allowing the road users of the subordinate infrastructure to pass the traffic signal facility.

The last example given at the same time shows that it will of course also be impossible by means of the solution according to the invention to exclude any traffic stop. In particular, in dense traffic in all directions of traffic are also the extent of the solution according to the invention set limits. Nevertheless, with the use of this solution, at least a reduction in traffic-related stops will also have to be achieved in such cases. In view of the fact that in the last-mentioned remarks regularly referred to by means of vehicles, especially motor vehicles, moving road users, it should be expressly pointed out again that in an implementation of the invention in practice, preferably pedestrians in a corresponding concept be included.

According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, GPS-based data, which are provided by navigation units, are preferably included in the method or in its sequence with regard to the data transmitted by the mobile information devices to the transmitting and receiving units of the traffic control device. Corresponding units may in this case be an immediate component of the mobile information devices referred to in the explanation of the basic principle of the invention or be functionally coupled to them. The respective exact configuration depends insofar on the hardware technology equipment of a corresponding mobile information device or of the vehicle with which the relevant mobile information device is coupled, as well as of a corresponding design of the devices, devices, units and assemblies controlling software.

According to a possible advantageous refinement, provision can also be made for data with information about an imminent change in direction of a road user or of his vehicle (for example turning) also to be transmitted to a respective traffic control device. The road user can effect this, for example, by actuating a corresponding operating element provided for this purpose on the mobile information device carried by him, whereupon, for example, a traffic control device to which information is transmitted to the road user, according to which the road user deviates from an information transmitted by a navigation device also carried by him, selecting a different route or a different route. Independently of a corresponding operating element on a mobile information device entrained by the road user, such information can also be transmitted to a traffic control device but also in the form of data which, for example, is transmitted to the traffic control device on the basis of the operation of the turn signal.

A possible further development of the method also consists in that one or more traffic control devices arranged in a section with a traffic control using the method are themselves equipped or coupled with means which enable them to determine the position of a plurality of road users or vehicles. For this purpose, suitable optical sensors can be provided, for example, on or in the traffic control devices or on the objects of the street equipment on which the relevant traffic control devices are arranged. For example, with the aid of such sensors or similar means in an intersection area by a traffic control device controlling the traffic signal device in this intersection region, information can be obtained on how fast left-hand laps clear the intersection area. This information can be used, if necessary, to prematurely release the route for the cross traffic. In this way, road users or their vehicles can also be included in the process, which do not have a mobile information device equipped according to the invention.

According to a further envisaged advantageous embodiment of the method according to the invention are also transmitted by the entrained by the road users mobile information devices to the traffic control device or traffic control devices data with information on the nature of moving towards the standing in operative connection with them traffic signal device approaching road users. Road users are assigned categories such as pedestrians, bicycles or motor vehicles. This too can help to make a better prediction of the arrival of the road users in the traffic signal device in question and to make it more convenient in terms of traffic.

Finally, according to a development, the method according to the invention also includes the possibility of giving priority to certain road users, for example a tram, but in particular emergency and rescue vehicles, when passing traffic signal devices. In the case of use of the mobile information devices of the latter vehicles and thus of mobile information units to authorized road users, for example, corresponding data are transmitted to the traffic control devices, due to which they grant the respective vehicles preferably by a corresponding switching regime for the respective traffic signal device free travel. It is also conceivable, certain vehicles, such as government vehicles or vehicles of otherwise socially exposed personalities as part of a "VIP function" (VIP = Very Important Person) to allow the priority passage of a traffic signal device or a traffic section. If necessary, such a VIP function can be the subject of marketing of selected motor vehicles in individual cases as a fee-based option. The activation of such a function could be done exceptionally and if necessary under well-defined conditions by pressing a switch or by voice control. Of course, quite different configurations are conceivable for corresponding switches, for example a built-in "button" or a virtual switch, which is displayed when it is possible to activate the VIP function.

Another advantageous embodiment or further development consists in that a plurality of traffic control devices arranged within a traffic-influenced section also exchange data with one another, which makes it possible to control successive traffic signal devices in a driving path and / or to influence the road users with regard to their speed in the sense of a smooth traffic flow. The latter also includes the possibility of transmitting data to the road users or to the mobile information devices carried by them which contain information as to which direction of travel (ie straight-line or left-hand traffic) the traffic will be enabled next and, if appropriate, within what time period.

An object-solving system designed to carry out the method consists of a plurality of mobile information devices, which are carried as mobile terminals by road users themselves or coupled to vehicles used by the road users in traffic, and from one or more, each equipped with at least one transmitting and receiving unit and coupled to a processing device, arranged on objects of the road equipment traffic control devices. The mobile information devices of the road users have a processing unit and are equipped with a program application which can be executed by the aforementioned processing unit and by which data recorded once or repeatedly and time-periodically by the respective mobile information device or by other devices coupled to it to the current position of a respective mobile information device as well as the speed of the mobile information device carrying the road user are transmitted by means of a transmitting and receiving unit of the mobile information device.

The preferably likewise a plurality of traffic control devices stationarily arranged on objects of the street equipment and the processing device coupled to them are brought into operative connection in such a way that by means of a program application executed by the processing device the data received via the at least one transmitting and receiving unit of a respective traffic control device is stored in the range of the transmitting and receiving unit located mobile information devices are aggregated and processed. The processing device itself can be embodied either as an immediate component of the respective traffic control device or as a centrally arranged device, the processing device being brought into operative connection in the last-mentioned case, that is to say a central processing device with a plurality of traffic control devices. Of course, so far within the overall system also hybrid forms are conceivable in which on the one hand one or more traffic control devices have their own processing device and on the other hand, several traffic control devices are brought into operative connection with a common processing device, so to speak several traffic control devices "share" a processing device. In addition and only as a precaution should be noted at this point that is spoken in the above representations and in the claims for distinction on the one hand by a (coupled to a respective traffic control device) processing device and on the other hand arranged in the mobile information devices processing units.

Regardless of whether the processing device is a component of the traffic control device or a central device, the software it processes from the data received by the mobile information devices of the road users by a traffic control device generates parameters for controlling the traffic control device in one Derived active connection standing traffic signal device and / or generates a message and transmitted to moving in the direction of the traffic control device mobile information devices. The latter message in this case contains information about a movement speed, the compliance of which, the message receiving mobile information devices with leading road users with the traffic control device in an operatively connected traffic signal device, such as a traffic light or barrier, expected to pass without stopping.

The mobile information devices of the road users, which have already been mentioned several times, are, for example, mobile terminals equipped with a corresponding program application, such as smartphones, tablet PCs or the like, or else electronic devices of vehicles, such as navigation devices and the like, that are correspondingly expanded in terms of their functionality , The system can be advantageously further developed by the fact that the traffic control devices stationarily arranged at facilities of the street equipment are equipped with means for determining the position or for detecting movements of vehicles or road users. The latter means can be provided to determine positions and directions of movement of road users even more precisely.

With reference to drawings, an embodiment of the invention will be explained below. The drawings show in detail:

1 a traffic situation in the area of a traffic signal device operatively connected to a traffic control device equipped according to the invention and with mobile information devices carrying leading traffic users according to the invention,

2 : one with the in the 1 shown traffic situation comparable, but with the help of the inventive solution advantageously influenced traffic situation,

3 A traffic situation in a traffic infrastructure with a plurality of traffic signal devices or traffic signal systems (traffic lights) operated according to the inventive solution.

The 1 shows a typical traffic situation in the area of an intersection of traffic routes. It is assumed that the vehicles at least several road users 1 ₁ - 1 _n or the road users sitting in them 1 ₁ - 1 _n itself a designed according to the invention mobile information device 2 ₁ - 2 _n with you. It is further assumed that the traffic signal device 4 ₁ , or the traffic light system, in an operative connection with a traffic control device according to the invention, not shown here in detail, equipped with at least one transmitting and receiving unit 3 ₁ stands. By the mobile information devices carried on or in several of the vehicles 2 ₁ - 2 _n are sent to this traffic control device 3 ₁ Time-periodic data on the current position and the respective instantaneous speed of the leading road users 1 ₁ - 1 _n transmitted. The with this traffic control device 3 ₁ coupled processing device 5 aggregates and processes the of a plurality of corresponding mobile information devices 2 ₁ - 2 _n of road users 1 ₁ - 1 _n received data. The not shown in detail (as part of the traffic control device 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ or, as here, as a central unit trained) processing device 5 derives therefrom by processing an appropriate software (program application) data or parameters for influencing the traffic situation, by means of which the traffic control device 3 _1, in particular the traffic signal device in operative connection with it 4 ₁ with regard to their switching behavior influenced by a corresponding control in the sense of a liquid traffic.

As a result, the traffic changes as in the 2 shown. This is done, as already stated by the fact that in operative connection with the traffic signal device 4 ₁ , so the traffic light system standing traffic control device 3 ₁ and the coupled thereto processing device 5 from those from the mobile information devices 2 ₁ - 2 _n the road user 1 ₁ - 1 _n received data Parameter for controlling the traffic light system (Traffic Signaleinrichtung 4 ₁ ) and, in the example shown, furthermore generates a message which is sent to the mobile information devices 2 ₁ - 2 _n the road user 1 ₁ - 1 _n transmitted and visualized by this the road users 1 ₁ - 1 _{n is} a recommendation for a movement speed, which in the case of compliance with this recommendation, on the one hand, a probable passage of the traffic signal device 4 ₁ allows non-stop. On the other hand, the message leaves in compliance with the recommended speed on the busy priority road or the parent traffic route (main street 6 ) create a gap that allows, at least for a short time, the traffic for road users 1 ₁ - 1 _{n of} the subordinate infrastructure or the side street 7 release.

The 3 shows one with the 2 comparable traffic situation in a constellation, in which two on the main traffic route or the main road 6 successively arranged traffic signal devices 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ according to the invention each with a controlling traffic control device 3 ₁ , 3 _{2 are} in operative connection. To the mobile information devices 2 ₁ - 2 _n referring to the lower traffic signal device in the figure 4 ₁ moving road users 1 ₁ - 1 _n is from the traffic control device operatively associated with it 3 ₁ a message has been transmitted at a recommended speed of movement. The road users concerned 1 ₁ - 1 _n have reduced their speed on this, leaving a gap with road users 1 ₁ - 1 _n preceding vehicles has arisen. The influence by the lower in the figure traffic control device 3 ₁ took place in time so that, on the one hand, this gap between the on the main road or the main road 6 Moving vehicles has arisen, and on the other hand briefly the traffic for (not shown here) road users 1 ₁ - 1 _n an adjacent side street 7 could be released without affecting itself at a reduced speed on the main road 6 moving vehicles at the traffic signal device 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ or the traffic lights had to keep traffic.

Keep the vehicles on the main road 6 now this speed or possibly even lower, by the traffic control device 3 _{2 of} the upper traffic light system shown in the figure (traffic signal device 4 ₂ ) transmitted recommended movement speed, it also occurs at this other traffic signal device 4 ₂ a comparable situation, according to which vehicles or road users 1 ₁ - 1 _n an adjacent side street 7 the intersection during a gap in traffic on the main street 6 happen and follow this gap of the traffic signal device 4 ₂ approaching vehicles can pass the traffic light system or the intersection without traffic-related stop.

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Claims (12)

Procedures for influencing traffic with a view to reducing the number of traffic-related stops by road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ), characterized in that by mobile information devices ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ), which are used as mobile terminals of road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) or coupled to by road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n) used in the transport vehicles are carried, data (at least to the current position of a respective traffic participant 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) and at its current speed by radio to at least one transmitting and receiving unit and equipped with a processing device ( 5 ) coupled to roadside equipment stationary traffic control devices ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) and that the processing facility ( 5 ) a first traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) received data all in the range of the transmitting and receiving unit of this first traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) information facilities ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) are aggregated and processed as well as parameters derived from the processed data for the control of a vehicle with the first traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) traffic signal equipment ( 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ ), wherein, if necessary, in addition a message is generated and sent, with the per se in the direction of this traffic signal device ( 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ ) moving information devices ( 2 ₁ - 2 _(n ) and / or to the means of distribution of the facilities of the street equipment, information on a speed of movement is given to the road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n) passing the expected a (with the first traffic control device 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) operatively connected traffic signaling device ( 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ ) without traffic-related stop allows. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that data at least to the current position of a road user ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) and at its current speed by the information device carried by itself or in a vehicle ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) are transmitted repeatedly time-periodically. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that by one or more of the mobile information devices ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) of road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) in addition to the data on the current position and speed of the respective road user ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) data are sent out to a category which of these road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) is assigned. Method according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that by one or more of the mobile information devices ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) of road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) position data of a navigation unit to be sent, which as an independent, with the respective of the road user ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) carried mobile information device ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) coupled device or as part of this mobile information device ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) is formed. Method according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that by one or more of the information devices ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) of road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) data are transmitted, which contain information to the respective road user ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) at the mobile information device ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) or in one when carrying the mobile information device ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) operated in traffic vehicle operated controls. Method according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that by the processing device ( 5 ) one or more traffic control devices ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) also position data of road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ), which is provided by the respective traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) yourself. Method according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that adjacent traffic control devices ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) communicate with each other and by a traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) from other traffic control systems ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) received data for the derivation of parameters for controlling the traffic control device receiving these data ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) traffic signal equipment ( 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ ) and / or for generating information to the information devices ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) of road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) or at facilities of the street equipment to be transmitted messages are used. Method according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that by appropriately trained information devices ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) authorized road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) data are transmitted, due to which they are received in the direction of movement of such an information device ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) located traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) an information device emitting such data ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) with leading road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _(n ) Priority shall be given to the passage of the traffic control system granting that priority ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) operatively connected traffic signaling device ( 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ ). Method according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that by one or several traffic control systems ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) to the information facilities ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) of road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ), which in the direction of with the respective traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) operatively connected traffic signaling device ( 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ ), information is transmitted in which traffic direction the relevant traffic signal device ( 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ ) releases the traffic next. Method according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that by information vehicles carried in vehicles ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) from a traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) received data, control signals are derived and controlled with these actuators, which act on the driving speed of the respective vehicle. Traffic management system with a view to reducing the number of traffic-related stops by road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ), with a majority of road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n) itself or in (by the road users 1 ₁ - 1 _(n ) mobile information devices carried on vehicles ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ), with one or more, having at least one transmitting and receiving unit for radio communication and with a processing device ( 5 ) equipped traffic control facilities ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) and each with such a traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) traffic signaling devices operatively connected ( 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ ), characterized in that by the road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) mobile information facilities ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) with transmitting and receiving means for data exchange with the transmitting and receiving units of the traffic control devices ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) and with a processing unit ( 5 ) and a program application processed by the latter, by means of which at least once or repeatedly time-periodically data are transmitted at least to the current position of a respective road user carrying them ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n) and (on current rate of this traffic participant 1 ₁ - 1 _n ), and that the processing device ( 5 ) the traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ), which is either a component of a respective traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) or around a central common processing device ( 5 ) of several traffic control devices ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) is equipped with a program application processed by it, which is adapted to be used by a traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) received data to aggregate, process and one with the respective traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) traffic signal device in operative connection ( 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ ) with parameters derived from the processed data and, if necessary, to generate and send a message with which in itself in the direction of this traffic signal device ( 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ ) moving information devices ( 2 ₁ - 2 _(n ) and / or to the means of distribution of the facilities of the street equipment, information on a speed of movement is given to the road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n) expected to be a passage of the traffic signal device ( 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ ) without traffic-related stop allows. System according to claim 11, characterized in that one or more of the traffic control devices ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ), with additional means to record the position of road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _(n ) the data of which are processed by the processor ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) for deriving parameters for the control of the respective traffic control device ( 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ ) traffic signal equipment ( 4 ₁ , 4 ₂ ) and / or for determining the information facilities ( 2 ₁ - 2 _n ) of road users ( 1 ₁ - 1 _n ) or at facilities of the street equipment with a message to be transmitted speed information used.

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