EP1057157B1 - Systeme de guidage de trafic - Google Patents

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EP1057157B1
EP1057157B1 EP98954177A EP98954177A EP1057157B1 EP 1057157 B1 EP1057157 B1 EP 1057157B1 EP 98954177 A EP98954177 A EP 98954177A EP 98954177 A EP98954177 A EP 98954177A EP 1057157 B1 EP1057157 B1 EP 1057157B1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
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    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/09—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions
    • G08G1/0962—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
    • G08G1/0967—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits
    • G08G1/096708—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where the received information might be used to generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
    • G08G1/096716—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where the received information might be used to generate an automatic action on the vehicle control where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/07—Controlling traffic signals
    • G08G1/08—Controlling traffic signals according to detected number or speed of vehicles
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    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/09—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions
    • G08G1/0962—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
    • G08G1/0967—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits
    • G08G1/096708—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where the received information might be used to generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
    • G08G1/096725—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where the received information might be used to generate an automatic action on the vehicle control where the received information generates an automatic action on the vehicle control
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/09—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions
    • G08G1/0962—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
    • G08G1/0967—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits
    • G08G1/096733—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where a selection of the information might take place
    • G08G1/09675—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where a selection of the information might take place where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/09—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions
    • G08G1/0962—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
    • G08G1/0967—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits
    • G08G1/096766—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where the system is characterised by the origin of the information transmission
    • G08G1/096783—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where the system is characterised by the origin of the information transmission where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element

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  • the invention relates to a traffic control system for regulation, guidance and / or optimization of traffic movements, whereby to record the current traffic situation Sensors are provided and the sensors are each one Radio receiver and / or a receiver for optical signals and / or one Acoustic signal receiver for road users Have radio signals and / or optical signals and / or acoustic signals.
  • Traffic control systems of the type in question are known from practice. For example is already a traffic light system, the signal sequence by motor vehicles controlled, which run over a magnetic induction loop, a traffic control system in a small style, using the magnetic induction loop as a sensor serves.
  • variable speed limit signs are known from practice, the sensors here using acoustic or optical ultrasound motion detectors or infrared motion detector or also formed by light barriers can be.
  • the above-mentioned control of a traffic light system at a single traffic node or at a traffic intersection or junction is the simplest Use case. At such a traffic intersection then all Light signal systems controlled depending on each other. In the most elaborate Groups of many traffic signs are interdependent connected. There are several traffic nodes or traffic junctions includes. Traffic control computers are usually used for such networking used, which are provided in a central traffic control center. The math Treatment or process control of traffic regulation is for Larger and denser traffic areas so complex that only large computers in are able to process the huge amounts of traffic data that are susceptible here the control in the context of the previously very complex mathematical traffic models perform.
  • the central traffic regulation in traffic control centers requires numerous and extensive ones Telecommunication connections between the traffic signs and a traffic control center.
  • An independent control of individual traffic signs on related Traffic nodes or sections of a traffic route can -
  • the traffic situation hardly improve.
  • the connected traffic situation of larger traffic areas - for example in cities - can only be elaborate with the help of the described Control with central traffic control centers can be significantly improved.
  • EP-A-0 720 137 describes a traffic control system for regulation, guidance and / or Optimization of traffic movements known, being used to record the current Traffic situation multiple sensors are provided and the sensors a radio receiver for radio signals transmitted by road users exhibit.
  • the current traffic situation recorded by the sensors Descriptive signals are transmitted from the sensors to a control center.
  • the signals are processed there and the relevant information is made available to road users transmitted again.
  • a central traffic regulation huge amounts of data have to be processed centrally. This means an enormous central processing effort.
  • a central traffic regulation is required numerous and wide telecommunication connections between the sensors and the headquarters. Especially with wide telecommunication connections strong transmission signals are required for secure data transmission. this means a high electromagnetic pollution of the environment. With weaker signals in turn, the security of data transmission would suffer.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object of a traffic control system of the type mentioned at the outset in such a way that, on the one hand, the effort reduced for data processing and on the other hand with radio transmission associated high electromagnetic pollution is avoided.
  • the above task is through a traffic management system with the characteristics of Claim 1 solved.
  • the traffic control system in question designed in such a way that the traffic data for traffic management, which are those of the Sensor recorded signals describing the current traffic situation represent, completely decentralized by the sensors, preferably the radio receiver and / or receivers for optical signals and / or receivers for acoustic Signals that are collected and processed.
  • the senor could be a traffic sign, preferably a traffic light system be assigned. This would result in separate sensor carriers, for example, masts are unnecessary.
  • the Road users to send radio signals and / or optical signals and / or acoustic signals radio transmitter and / or optical signal transmitter and / or be assigned to acoustic signal transmitters.
  • the transmitters could be motor vehicles the road user is assigned and / or arranged on it. That would be reached a connection between the transmitter and the motor vehicle, so that the transmitter is always ready for use when the respective motor vehicle is used. That would have to be the road user does not pay attention every time the vehicle is used, to carry the transmitter.
  • the radio transmitters and / or optical signal transmitters and / or acoustic signal transmitters could Transmitters as assemblies or as modules in telecommunication devices, in telemetric Devices, integrated into radio equipment or other electrical devices.
  • radio equipment or other electrical devices there integration into, for example, cell phones is conceivable.
  • Known cell phones For example, send for localization by the network operator at regular intervals Radio signals.
  • These radio signals could be used in the context of the invention Traffic control system can be used to detect the road user.
  • the radio signals and / or optical signals and / or acoustic signals Signals as periodic transmission pulses with predefinable transmission frequencies be provided.
  • the sensors radio transmitters and / or optical signal transmitters and / or acoustic Signal transmitters process units with memories and switching devices assigned his.
  • Preferably sent regularly Transmission impulses of those moving past a traffic sign or past one Traffic signs pending or at some distance on a traffic sign road users moving could be registered.
  • the processing could be through an internal comparison at each traffic sign or through a comparison between interdependent traffic signs in a traffic node occur. To do this, the transmitters and receivers of traffic signs, which have to be switched depending on each other, especially traffic signs a traffic junction or a section of a traffic route, in particular wireless communication with each other.
  • the processing could be in at certain intervals or continuously.
  • the respective could also be particularly effective Speeds of road users and / or their group speed be taken into account. This could be done, for example, by radio transmission, an optical or an acoustic transmission of the current one Speed value of the road user to the radio receiver and / or Receiver for optical signals and / or receiver for acoustic signals from the Sensor done.
  • the radio receiver and / or receiver could for optical signals and / or receivers for acoustic signals for detection and preferably storing the Doppler shift of the signal frequencies of the moving road users and thus the state of motion of the Road users should be trained. This would be an automatic determination the speed of road users through the sensor possible. The road users would then not have to transfer their speed value by means of the radio link, optical link or acoustic link be trained.
  • a larger traffic area could be predefinable groups of one another dependent traffic signs, preferably groups, the different Traffic nodes or sections of traffic routes can be assigned through which Traffic flow on the traffic routes networked and / or mutually be influenceable. This would make it possible for the road users themselves Data from one group of traffic signs to another group or to other groups of traffic signs. Other signal transmission devices would then not be necessary and the total radio traffic volume and / or optical and / or acoustic signals could be limited to spatially narrow areas, for example a narrow around the group under consideration delimited area.
  • the radio transmitters and / or optical signal transmitters could do this and / or acoustic signal transmitters radio receivers and / or receivers for optical Signals and / or receivers for acoustic signals, process units with Storage and switching devices can be assigned.
  • they could Radio transmitters assigned to road users and / or traffic signs and / or optical signal transmitter and / or acoustic signal transmitter and radio receiver and / or receivers for optical signals and / or receivers for acoustic Signals as radio relay and / or optical signal relay and / or acoustic Signal relay be formed. This would be a data transmission and / or a transmission of switching signals in any way via traffic signs and road users possible.
  • the signals could be different Groups of road users preferably depending on the situation to be different. It would be conceivable that, for example, public transport due to their specific radio signals and / or optical signals and / or acoustic signals classified as preferred road users and are preferably routed accordingly. If the respective, as public Vehicles used for transportation could no longer be in use the signals are modified accordingly so that no priority is given to the traffic management must be given more.
  • the predefinable switching behavior of the traffic signs could by radio signals and / or optical signals and / or acoustic Signals can be influenced.
  • a privilege signal is through For example, police vehicles, fire engines or thought by ambulance. This could allow safe passage of such privileged vehicles can be reached at intersections because of intersecting traffic automatically stopped using the appropriately controlled traffic signs could be.
  • the traffic management system could switch the traffic signs based on a comparison of the recorded traffic data and / or recorded weather data.
  • the control of traffic could depend on individual weather situations be made.
  • the radio receiver and / or receiver could do this for optical signals and / or receivers for acoustic signals in a particularly reliable and practical for detection and preferably storage the field attenuation of the radio signals and / or optical signals and / or acoustic Signals from preferably the road users and thus the weather situation, especially the snow, rain and fog situation.
  • the density of, for example, is Snow, rain or fog can be determined.
  • the signals could be from the Road users are sent out with motor vehicles on the road participate, and on the other hand by road users who use bicycles or are even on foot.
  • the signals must be not necessarily from drivers, but could also come from others Road users come from, whose signals differ from the signals of the Motorists could differentiate. The recording and evaluation of the weather situation is thus from the traffic volume formed by the motor vehicles independently.
  • the switching behavior of the traffic signs could be effectively controlled by a Be influenced by the optimization process. This could be the optimization process Variation method of the parameters influencing the switching process. As The parameters would be the traffic volume with optional consideration the weather situation in question.
  • the circuit could a traffic sign that depends on another traffic sign through which other traffic signs can be brought about.
  • fast franchise signals would be transferable without going through a processing process.
  • the traffic control system could function as a neural traffic control system be constructed.
  • the usual functional principles of a neural Network their application.
  • the traffic control system could also be set up as a navigation system for road users.
  • the radio transmitters and / or optical signal transmitters and / or acoustic ones Signal transmitter and radio receiver and / or receiver for optical signals and / or receivers for acoustic signals from traffic signs for communication with radio transmitters and / or optical signal transmitters and / or acoustic signal transmitters and radio receivers and / or receivers for optical signals and / or receivers for acoustic signals from road users and vice versa be trained.
  • a pure navigation system would also be without the traffic management through the inclusion of traffic data is conceivable, whereby the functions described below could be implemented.
  • the memory for the information could at least be in a particularly simple manner be assigned to a traffic sign. So a constant call would be in the frame a short signal connection route by an inquiring road user possible.
  • the information about traffic destinations could be stored in groups, the traffic destination directions assigned.
  • the road user could then enter the Direction of the desired destination can be directed, whereby for advertising purposes other possible goals for him in this direction be transmitted. It is aimed at commercial companies such as Retail stores thought. who are admitted to the Can find information stores.
  • the query could also be made by the road user be designed for a fee, so that by one or both last-mentioned measures financing the operation and updating of the memory would be reachable. This would be another traffic management function realized by means of the navigation system.
  • the traffic management system could also act as a weather information system be constructed.
  • This query could also be designed for a fee his.
  • the Query on a mobile phone whose network operator charges the fees could perform.
  • Such devices could easily be used as retrofit components for traffic signs already in use be used.
  • a Traffic transmitter-side radio transmitter and / or optical signal transmitter and / or acoustic signal transmitters for transmitting radio signals and / or optical signals and / or acoustic signals for the traffic control system are. This would also be an ideal retrofit option for Motor vehicles realized.
  • the radio transmitter and / or optical signal transmitter and / or acoustic signal transmitter The road user could very easily turn into radio receivers or traffic telemetry devices such as GPS navigation devices or integrated telecommunication devices. Especially all road users could simply use the same radio signals if possible and / or emit optical signals and / or acoustic signals. This concerns the form of the signals and their transmission frequency. In a simple case it would be possible to use a pulse train with periodic transmission pulses on a only very narrow-band transmission frequency can be sent.
  • the above description particularly concerns road traffic.
  • the invention is however also applicable to other traffic areas with means of transport or transportation applicable in traffic flows or traffic networks that correspond to the Let design invention.
  • Different groups of road users could be driving according to their type, for example, pedestrians or motor vehicles the type of vehicle, for example passenger vehicles or trucks, buses and railways, or according to their task, for example passenger or freight transport, Private traffic or commercial traffic, private traffic or public Traffic, transport services, cleaning services, clearing services, police services, Aid services, emergency services, etc., considered separately become.
  • police or emergency services could use special Use signals the traffic signs on their way to unlock the passage cause.
  • the radio transmitter and / or optical signal transmitter and / or acoustic signal transmitter and radio receiver and / or receiver for optical Road users could receive signals and / or receivers for acoustic signals as relays first of all information from or via a traffic sign about the traffic situation on the relevant traffic route or in the section of the traffic route or in the traffic node by means of a signal receive. These signals could go through until new information is received the road users repeated and thus to the next traffic sign be transmitted. For this, road users could keep the information permanent send or you could only send the information if you have a signal receiver detect a traffic sign. The signal receivers could do this by sending radio signals and / or optical signals and / or make acoustic signals noticeable themselves.
  • the information about cross traffic or other competing traffic other locations for example at previous traffic junctions, in this or be transmitted in other traffic routes.
  • the traffic sign transmitters could send information to but still distant road users are transmitted, the traffic situation at the next traffic junction or in the next traffic route section displays.
  • this information could be a behavior prompt to the road users, for example the cheapest possible Movement speed.
  • This could intelligently control the traffic signs at the traffic junction or at the sections of the traffic routes are supported in order to further optimize the flow of traffic.
  • the transmission powers could be set so low that only one Traffic route section or traffic node responsible traffic sign signals the road user can pick up from this section and thereby other. more distant traffic signs from other traffic route sections, if applicable or other traffic hubs that remain unaffected should not be influenced. So that the traffic on individual, different and certain traffic routes or the traffic in a certain direction of movement
  • the transmission and reception systems could be registered selectively for sending and receiving road user signals and for sending information for road users with antennas be equipped with only signals in or out of the traffic route in question or in or from a certain direction of the traffic route in question can send or record. For example, there are horn antennas Particularly suitable for high signal frequencies in the microwave range.
  • antennas with certain limited solid angles for sending or receiving can serve, in particular, for further information to get about the traffic situation. For example, if the signals the road user from one direction or from both directions one Traffic route can be detected separately, so the Doppler shift the reception frequencies or from the splitting of the reception frequency band in question a statement about the state of motion of the road users be made. In particular, stationary traffic or moving traffic Traffic can be detected and it can even change the speed of movement Road users can be determined.
  • the detection of the field attenuation could Standardization of the integrally registered reception power of the transmission pulses by means of the integrally registered transmission pulse rate.
  • the average transmission power of a road user after field attenuation Radiation at the receiving location with the same theoretical size without field attenuation are compared because of the standard transmission power of road users is known.
  • the comparison can be because of the potential
  • the field attenuation and subsequently the distance dependence of the received power average rain or fog density can be determined.
  • a more precise method would be include the change sizes.
  • Suitable frequency ranges are, for example, ranges in which water absorption resonances or high scatter cross sections for the radiation. This would be, for example, the 24 GHz range and higher radio frequency ranges.
  • the traffic control system according to the invention for a Traffic control in connection with traffic signs, for example the speed regulate traffic or no overtaking or road closures, Considering the weather situation results in considerable security advantages.
  • the traffic control function through a navigation function for road users be supplemented.
  • the memory allocated to the sensor could not include only traffic data, but also information about the traffic routes. for example directions to traffic route connections, traffic route nodes and sections of traffic routes.
  • predefinable ones Traffic destinations can be stored, for example certain facilities at the Traffic routes such as Building. Bridges, tunnels, sights, or for example commercial facilities such as Shops, businesses, Banks, restaurants, hotels, cinemas, petrol stations, information points, or public Facilities such as Theaters, casinos, museums.
  • Every road user who wants to use the navigation aid gives his traffic destination to his appropriately designed transmitter. This can Name or address of the traffic destination.
  • the transmitter can then in at regular intervals or continuously or when a predeterminable level is reached Distance to a traffic sign the destination request to the traffic sign, that may have saved the traffic destinations in groups.
  • the predeterminable distance can be recognized by signals of the traffic sign.
  • the respective groups can be assigned to the traffic directions, in which the road user must move to the desired traffic destination to reach.
  • the transmitter of the traffic sign sends the recipient of the road user on request, the direction information or movement information back of the road user on or after the road sign must follow.
  • the direction information - as described above - take into account the local traffic situation and local traffic conditions, to alternatively change a direction instruction, e.g. Traffic jams or Avoid bad weather areas and avoid them.
  • a visitor traffic to its traffic destination on certain main traffic routes are directed, thereby certain areas of the traffic area - for example Residential areas - can be relieved and traffic calmed.
  • the invention offers the major advantage for road users that they are not geographical Maps for the traffic area visited must be available, especially such material often after a short time due to a change in the transport network or the routing is out of date and may therefore be unusable.
  • the memory of the traffic signs can be updated at any time Be brought up. This could be done by radio transmission, for example and / or optical transmission and / or acoustic transmission to the preferably addressable traffic signs happen.
  • the signals for the switching instructions passed from one traffic sign to another Traffic signs sent can differ from the signals of road users and from those intended for road users and can be on different broadcast channels and with different Transmission frequencies and methods are sent.
  • the traffic control system can have multiple transmission channels for the switching signals and equipped for the traffic information and the navigation information his.
  • the individual traffic signs and the facilities the road user must be addressable.
  • Information about the traffic situation or switching instructions or navigation information then addressed or targeted according to certain transmission methods, for example digital and coded, transmitted.
  • a broadcasting process (“Token Ring” process) can be used.
  • the radio transmission process on the decentralized radio transmission procedures are based on the German patent applications 195 35 021.9. 197 20 236.5, 197 26 956.7 and 196 08 846.1 is.
  • the functional units of the traffic signs which consist of radio receivers and / or Receiver for optical signals and / or receiver for acoustic signals, Radio transmitter and / or optical signal transmitter and / or acoustic signal transmitter, Process unit with memory and switching devices can be constructed a certain switching behavior can be programmed to switch the traffic signs imprinted.
  • the switching behavior could be specified in this way be that it meets certain optimization requirements.
  • the switching behavior or the switching parameters such as the switching times, the switching frequency. the switching times etc. could or could accordingly be set so that swelling or decay, i.e. for example changing the Transmit pulse rate and the absolute strength of the transmit pulse rate by the receiver received, is minimized as far as possible. This would correspond to one if possible smooth traffic flow.
  • each individual functional unit could align their switching behavior to traffic information that is dependent on everyone Functional units are transferred.
  • all functional units would have the same information for decision-making before and there would be a competing switching behavior at the individual traffic signs can be prevented, which leads to an unstable Behavior of traffic control and traffic flow leads.
  • This switching behavior could develop such that each functional unit in a "try and error” method by varying the switching parameters the cheapest Attitude itself finds and tests impact-related. There would then be a variation procedure in which each functional unit varies all switching parameters can.
  • the variation of the switching parameters by the individual functional units the traffic sign, for example, of a traffic junction could have a predefinable one Procedures are carried out. This method would only so many and certain functional units switching parameters simultaneously or one after the other vary that the optimization is carried out as efficiently as possible. Can do this the functional units again radio information and / or optical information and / or exchange acoustic information.
  • These settings of the switching parameters could roughly be specified by settings be the functional unit in similar traffic situations already applied and remembered. In addition there are such data about the traffic situation and save the switching parameter settings applied to it.
  • the functional units of the traffic signs or the group of traffic signs For example, a traffic node in which a mutual connection are therefore capable of learning.
  • a functional unit of a traffic sign decides to switch. then it sends switching instructions to certain ones dependent traffic signs on the channels and switches itself at the same time.
  • the dependent traffic signs will be then switched at the same time. Every traffic sign has the option of all to switch other dependent traffic signs, e.g. the traffic node.
  • the switchover is carried out after an optimization process an optimization basis that is the same for all functional units.
  • the functional unit groups of the different traffic nodes and the different ones Traffic route sections together form a neural switching network.
  • the functional unit groups of a traffic node or a traffic route section form neural switches (neurons) by the traffic rule be networked themselves and through the connected traffic volume or the flow of traffic can be stimulated. It is theoretical Studies to be expected that this neural traffic control system the optimized the entire traffic flow in his area independently.
  • the invention can the traffic situation or the traffic flow in large traffic areas optimize itself without an external traffic management and large coherent Solve traffic problems.
  • Existing traffic signs can with the invention in components of a intelligent traffic control system can be converted, taking the necessary Sensors can be equipped with very inexpensive receivers.
  • the existing traffic signs can and must be upgraded cannot be replaced.
  • expensive cable connections in the Roads between the dependent traffic signs for example a traffic junction be avoided.
  • Traffic control system a very inexpensive navigation system can be realized, that no roadside measuring devices, satellite-supported Position measuring devices, visualization components, complex Processor and storage units and geographic map material in e.g. electronic storage media is required, making the related Costs can be avoided.
  • the traffic control system according to the invention is used considerably more flexible traffic control system than previously used traffic control systems emerged. It can be flexible to different traffic conditions and traffic situations at different traffic times and on weather conditions react automatically and self-regulating. Furthermore, it can be local to the requirements of individual road user groups in general or in certain Situations react. In particular, it can, for example, pedestrian traffic - preferably via mobile phones - integrate in cities and visitor traffic direct to its goals. It also increases the safety of road users in certain exceptional situations, such as during special operations or in bad weather situations. Such conditions can Not recognized and regulated flexibly enough by previous traffic control systems become.
  • an integrated weather warning system can be used with the invention and an integrated navigation system can be realized using telecommunications equipment such as how cell phones can be used and thus In addition to road users such as drivers, pedestrians are also available stands.
  • the system is networked in a particularly simple manner through the moving traffic itself, even as a carrier for others Traffic information can serve. This avoids networking via telecommunication devices.
  • Functional units of road users of oncoming traffic serve as moving relay stations, which preferably have only a short transmission and have reception range, but due to their movement and one if necessary, repeated transmission of the information also over long transmission distances could transmit.
  • the Group speed of the traffic flowing in one direction is determined become.
  • the road users of the originally considered traffic itself is the recipient of the oncoming traffic transmitted information about the traffic jam situation or the unfavorable traffic conditions his.
  • the information therefore does not have to be given to road users be transmitted via traffic signs, but can be directly from a e.g. Motor vehicle arranged functional unit of the road user received become.
  • This functional unit can now become a road user corresponding reaction - e.g. reduction in speed or change of direction - prompt and / or trigger such a reaction automatically.
  • the automatic process could interfere with the braking system Include cruise control and / or in the accelerator pedal position or be taken into account within a guidance process of a navigation system.

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  1. Système de guidage de trafic pour la régulation, la commande et/ou l'optimisation de circulations de trafic, des capteurs étant prévus pour capter la situation du trafic instantanée et les capteurs présentant respectivement un récepteur radio et/ou un récepteur pour des signaux optiques et/ou un récepteur pour des signaux acoustiques pour des signaux radio et/ou des signaux optiques et/ou des signaux acoustiques émis par les participants du trafic,
    caractérisé en ce que les données de trafic pour le guidage de trafic qui sont captées par le capteur, représentant la situation du trafic instantanée, sont levées et traitées de manière parfaitement décentralisée par les capteurs, de préférence les récepteurs radio et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux optiques et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux acoustiques.
  2. Système de guidage de trafic selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce qu'un panneau de signalisation, de préférence un dispositif de signalisation lumineux, est adjoint respectivement aux capteurs.
  3. Système de guidage de trafic selon la revendication 1 ou 2,
    caractérisé en ce que des émetteurs radio et/ou des émetteurs de signaux optiques et/ou des émetteurs de signaux acoustiques sont adjoints aux participants du trafic pour l'émission des signaux.
  4. Système de guidage de trafic selon la revendication 3,
    caractérisé en ce que les émetteurs radio et/ou les émetteurs de signaux optiques et/ou les émetteurs de signaux acoustiques sont adjoints aux véhicules automobiles des participants au trafic et/ou sont disposés sur ceux-ci.
  5. Système de guidage de trafic selon la revendication 3 ou 4,
    caractérisé en ce que les émetteurs radio et/ou les émetteurs de signaux optiques et/ou les émetteurs de signaux acoustiques sont intégrés sous forme de groupes de construction ou sous forme de modules dans des appareils de télécommunication, dans des appareils télémétriques, dans des appareils de radiodiffusion ou d'autres appareils électriques.
  6. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5,
    caractérisé en ce que les signaux radio et/ou les signaux optiques et/ou les signaux acoustiques sont des impulsions d'émission périodiques avec des fréquences d'émission pouvant être prédéfinies.
  7. Système de guidage de trafic selon 1 une des revendications 1 à 6,
    caractérisé en ce que des émetteurs radio et/ou des émetteurs de signaux optiques et/ou des émetteurs de signaux acoustiques, des processeurs avec des mémoires et des appareils de commutation sont adjoints aux capteurs.
  8. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7,
    caractérisé en ce que les récepteurs radio et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux optiques et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux acoustiques sont réalisés pour la détection et de préférence la mémorisation des taux de comptage des impulsions et de leurs modifications et/ou de la puissance de réception et de sa modification.
  9. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 3 à 8,
    caractérisé en ce que les émetteurs radio et/ou les émetteurs de signaux optiques et/ou les émetteurs de signaux acoustiques et les récepteurs radio et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux optiques et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux acoustiques sont réalisés par des panneaux de signalisation qui doivent être commutés indépendamment les uns des autres, en particulier par des panneaux de signalisation d'un noeud de trafic ou d'une section d'un trajet de trafic, pour la communication, en particulier sans câble, les uns avec les autres.
  10. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 1 à 9,
    caractérisé en ce que les récepteurs radio et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux optiques et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux acoustiques sont réalisés pour la détection et de préférence la mémorisation du déplacement Doppler des fréquences de signaux des participants du trafic se déplaçant et, par conséquent, de l'état de déplacement des participants du trafic.
  11. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 1 à 10,
    caractérisé en ce que des groupes pouvant être prédéfinis de panneaux de signalisation dépendant les uns des autres, de préférence des groupes qui peuvent être adjoints à des noeuds de trafic ou des sections de trajet de trafic différents, sont en réseaux les uns avec les autres et/ou sont influençables mutuellement par le flux de trafic sur les trajets de trafic.
  12. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 3 à 11,
    caractérisé en ce que des récepteurs radio et/ou des récepteurs pour des signaux optiques et/ou des récepteurs pour des signaux acoustiques, des processeurs avec des mémoires et des appareils de commutation sont adjoints aux émetteurs radio et/ou aux émetteurs de signaux optiques et/ou aux émetteurs de signaux acoustiques.
  13. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 3 à 12,
    caractérisé en ce que les émetteurs radio et/ou les émetteurs de signaux optiques et/ou les émetteurs de signaux acoustiques et les récepteurs radio et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux optiques et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux acoustiques adjoints aux participants du trafic et/ou panneaux de signalisation sont réalisés sous forme de relais radio et/ou de relais de signaux lumineux et/ou de relais de signaux acoustiques.
  14. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 1 à 13,
    caractérisé en ce que les signaux de groupes différents de participants au trafic sont différents, de préférence relativement à la situation.
  15. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 9 à 14,
    caractérisé en ce que le comportement de commutation des panneaux de signalisation pouvant être prédéfinis sont influençables par des signaux radio et/ou des signaux optiques et/ou des signaux acoustiques.
  16. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 9 à 15,
    caractérisé en ce que la commutation des panneaux de signalisation se produit sur la base d'une comparaison des données de trafic captées et/ou de données météorologiques captées.
  17. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 1 à 16,
    caractérisé en ce que les récepteurs radio et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux optiques et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux acoustiques sont réalisés pour la détection et de préférence la mémorisation de l'amortissement de champ des signaux radio et/ou des signaux optiques et/ou des signaux acoustiques de préférence des participants du trafic et, en conséquence, de la situation météorologique, en particulier de la situation de neige, de pluie et de brouillard.
  18. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 15 à 17,
    caractérisé en ce que le comportement de commutation est influencé par un processus d'optimisation.
  19. Système de guidage de trafic selon la revendication 18,
    caractérisé en ce que le processus d'optimisation est un procédé de variation des paramètres influençant le processus de commutation.
  20. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 9 à 19,
    caractérisé en ce que la commutation d'un panneau de signalisation qui est dépendant d'un autre panneau de signalisation peut être effectuée par l'autre panneau de signalisation.
  21. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 1 à 20,
    caractérisé en ce qu'il est construit sous forme de système de réseau de guidage de trafic neuronal.
  22. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 1 à 21,
    caractérisé en ce qu'il est en outre construit sous forme de système de navigation pour participants du trafic.
  23. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 3 à 22,
    caractérisé en ce que les émetteurs radio et/ou les émetteurs de signaux optiques et/ou les émetteurs de signaux acoustiques et les récepteurs radio et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux optiques et/ou les récepteurs pour des signaux acoustiques sont constitués de panneaux de signalisation pour la communication avec des émetteurs radio et/ou des émetteurs de signaux optiques et/ou des émetteurs de signaux acoustiques et des récepteurs radio et/ou des récepteurs pour des signaux optiques et/ou des récepteurs pour des signaux acoustiques de participants du trafic et inversement.
  24. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 1 à 23,
    caractérisé en ce qu'une information programmable sur des propriétés géographiques et/ou topologiques des trajets de trafic, en particulier une information sur des destinations de trafic du participant du trafic, peut être classée dans une mémoire.
  25. Système de guidage de trafic selon la revendication 24,
    caractérisé en ce qu'au moins un panneau de signalisation est adjoint à la mémoire.
  26. Système de guidage de trafic selon la revendication 24 ou 25,
    caractérisé en ce que l'information sur des destinations de trafic est mémorisée dans des groupes qui sont adjoints aux directions de destination de trafic du participant du trafic.
  27. Système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 1 à 26,
    caractérisé en ce qu'il est en outre construit sous forme de système d'information météorologique.
  28. Appareil électronique d'un système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 1 à 27,
    caractérisé par un récepteur radio et/ou un récepteur pour des signaux optiques et/ou un récepteur pour des signaux acoustiques pour des signaux radio et/ou des signaux optiques et/ou des signaux acoustiques émis par les participants du trafic.
  29. Appareil électronique d'un système de guidage de trafic selon l'une des revendications 1 à 27,
    caractérisé par un émetteur radio et/ou un émetteur de signaux optiques et/ou un émetteur de signaux acoustiques du côté du participant au trafic pour l'émission de signaux radio et/ou de signaux optiques et/ou de signaux acoustiques.
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