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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 06, 1997
Stefan Vieweg, Dusseldorf, DE;
Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft, Dusseldorf, DE;
Abstract
A process for selecting traffic information received by or to be sent from a vehicle, whereby the selection is carried out in the vehicle in dependence on a type of road on which the vehicle is travelling at a given moment. The process including carrying out at the vehicle a segment-by-segment determination of a geometric route of the vehicle, whereby information on a particular segment of the geometric route includes at least relative positions of a starting and ending points of the segment, comparing the segment of the route to characteristic geometric parameters of road types, and, from this comparison, determining the road type currently being travelled and using the road type as a selection criterion.