Method and arrangement for controlling a system of multiple traffic signals

US6985090B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• André Ebner · Ingolstadt, DE
• Matthias Lott · Planegg, DE
• Egon Schulz · Birkenfeld, DE
• Ruediger Halfmann · Kaiserslautern, DE
• Hermann Rohling · Wolfenbüttel, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 29, 2002
• Grant date: Jan 10, 2006
• Expiry date: May 10, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/096783
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method and arrangement for controlling a system of multiple traffic signals for regulating the traffic of vehicles is described. Traffic data is transmitted by wireless transmission to traffic data processing units assigned individually to a locally limited group of traffic signals, and each traffic data processing unit performs an analysis of the local traffic situation for the environment of the locally limited group of traffic signals up to, at the maximum, the neighboring locally limited groups of traffic signals.