Method for controlling the provision of traffic informational data in order to update traffic information

US9528841B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Heidrun Belzner · Hanerau-Hademarschen, DE
• Georg Obert · Munich, DE
• Ronald Kates · Otterfing, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 18, 2014
• Grant date: Dec 27, 2016
• Expiry date: Sep 18, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/091
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method for controlling provision of traffic informational data for updating traffic information, traffic information that was previously valid on a route section, and that was provided by a traffic service provider, for example, is allocated a first added value. A second time value is determined for traffic information on the route section updated virtually by traffic informational data generated from a vehicle. From a comparison of the first and second time values, a priority ratio may be obtained as a measured value for the benefit of transferring the traffic informational data generated in the vehicle to a traffic service provider for updating traffic information that was previously valid at the traffic service provider.