Method of evaluating traffic information

US6529819B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd. · FI

Inventors

• Reinhold Baur · Neu-Ulm, DE
• Anne Koppinen · Tampere, FI
• Anne Kirjavainen · Espoo, FI
• Maximiliano Roque-Cerna · Günzburg, DE
• Lutz Abe · Erbach, DE
• Peter Prestele · Vöhringen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 7, 2001
• Grant date: Mar 4, 2003
• Expiry date: Jun 7, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/096844
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method of evaluating traffic information transmitted by a traffic information service, in which data on the traffic situation on a route to be traveled in the present direction of travel is received and, from the data on the traffic situation, an anticipated delay in journey time on the route to be travelled is calculated. In order to avoid unnecessary waiting in traffic hold-ups it is provided that the size of the calculated anticipated delay in journey time together with a recommendation to interrupt the journey is displayed if the anticipated delay in journey time in the present direction is greater than a given value.