Method and device for communication between road users and/or pedestrians and a traffic infrastructure on the basis of an ad-hoc wireless motor vehicle communications system for traffic control

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a stationary device for communication on the basis of an ad-hoc interacting motor vehicle communication system, particularly of the wireless variety. Communication occurs between the road users and/or pedestrians themselves and/or between road users and/or pedestrians and the traffic infrastructure wherein, in the near field of a traffic route junction, particularly T-junctions or intersections of traffic routes such as road or railway junctions, a radio transmission/receiving device associated with a first road user continuously transmits a message to at least one second radio transmission/receiving device that is associated with a device of the traffic infrastructure and located in the radio coverage range of said first radio transmission/receiving device, the message being transmitted such that a first direction of a change in position of the first road user is detected on the basis of the received message, a history of detected directions is compiled on the basis of these messages, a first correlation is determined between said first direction and the historical directions, a second correlation is determined with the result of said first correlation and a reference traffic lane of pre-plotted traffic lanes at the traffic route junction, said reference traffic lane corresponding to the geographic course and being the basis for road user and/or pedestrian control, particularly when initialising the traffic control, and road users and/or pedestrians being controlled on the basis of said first and/or second correlation.