Method for transmitting traffic information about a traffic obstruction

US6861960B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Hessing · Holle, DE
• Heinrich Schmidt · Düsseldorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 29, 2001
• Grant date: Mar 1, 2005
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/092
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The method of transmitting traffic information about a traffic obstruction on a traffic way with digital coded messages includes coding a coded location contained in a location data bank, which amounts to an approximate position of the traffic obstruction on the traffic way, and a section part of the traffic way between the coded location and an actual position of the traffic obstruction on the traffic way in a traffic message and then transmitting the traffic message. In addition the length of the traffic obstruction can be included in the traffic message. In a preferred embodiment the traffic message is a TMC traffic message coded with ALERT-C protocol. In which the section part is coded in label 12 and the length in label 2.