Transmission of localized traffic information

US6292742A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann AG · DE

Inventors

• Josef Heimann · Düsseldorf, DE
• Werner Schulz · Dallas, US
• Stefan Vieweg · Willich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 6, 1999
• Grant date: Sep 18, 2001
• Expiry date: Aug 6, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/09675
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Condensing of information is achieved by a terminal device, a traffic center and a method for informing a user of a terminal device about the traffic situation in a traffic network using traffic information transmitted from a traffic center to the terminal device over a communications channel. Traffic information relating to at least one section in the traffic network is converted to information relating to zone in the traffic network, and zone-oriented traffic information is displayed to the user of the terminal device.