A method for traffic
monitoring and control in which mean
traffic flow velocities vpi predicted by means of a
route service are provided for respective
route segments Si of a respective
route running from a respective starting point to a respective destination point within a respective route corridor of a road network at a
current time, wherein the central route service is provided and executed on a computing unit of a traffic
monitoring and control system, wherein the route service a) at the
current time captures a plurality of current route requests relating to the route corridor from a plurality of vehicles via a respective
telecommunications connection to the vehicles, and receives traffic-relevant data available at the
current time via a first
telecommunications interface.and, using at least one
routing algorithm, calculates a requested route for each of the plurality of vehicles based on the road network and the traffic-relevant data available at the current time; b) based on the calculated routes for future times of stay on respective route sections Si, determines how many of the plurality of vehicles will be on which route section Si, and derives a vehicle density per route section Si for the respective future times of stay.c) assigns a different weighting factor to the vehicle densities per route segment Si depending on the time interval between the respective dwell time and the current time, and converts the weighted vehicle densities for the respective dwell times on the respective specific route segments Si into predicted differently weighted mean
traffic flow velocities vpi for the respective dwell times on the respective specific route segments Si, d) recalculates the respective routes for the recorded route requests using the calculated
traffic flow velocities vpi, e) iterates steps b) to d) using the newly calculated routes iteratively until the traffic flow velocities vpi meet a predefined convergence criterion, whereby the convergence criterion is then met.if the traffic flow velocities vpi change from the last iteration by a maximum of a specified tolerance value from the respective traffic flow velocities calculated in the last iteration, and f) provides the iteratively calculated traffic flow velocities vpi for calculating a best route between the respective starting point and the respective destination point via a second
telecommunications interface.