Method for determining a travel time
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A method for determining a journey time is proposed for a journey route for a following vehicle which is traveling in a sequence of vehicles. This method comprises the steps: journey profile data is registered by at least one vehicle traveling ahead in the sequence, the journey profile data comprising at least one travel time or data from which travel time can be determined, for a route component between two positions on the journey route, and the journey time for a route comprising the route component is calculated from the journey profile data, journey profile information which comprises the journey profile data or the journey time being transmitted to at least one receiving following vehicle using vehicle-to-vehicle communication by at least one transmitting vehicle traveling ahead. In order to determine the journey time, the journey information of a plurality of vehicles is preferably transferred to following vehicles by forming a transmission chain.
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27 Claims
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1-13. -13. (canceled)
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14. A method for determining a journey time for a journey route for a following vehicle traveling in a sequence of vehicles, the method comprising the steps of:
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collecting journey profile data by a vehicle traveling ahead in the sequence, the journey profile data including at least a travel time or data permitting determination of the travel time for a route component between a first and a second position on the journey route;
calculating a journey time in the vehicle collecting the journey profile data for a route including the route component from the journey profile data; and
transmitting journey profile information including the journey time or the journey profile data using vehicle-to-vehicle communication from the vehicle traveling ahead to a receiving following vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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19. The method as recited in claim 19 wherein the radius is determined by chronological accessibility.
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26. A method for determining a journey time for a journey route for a following vehicle traveling in a sequence of vehicles, a first vehicle in the sequence of vehicles traveling a first travel time for a first route component on the journey route, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving the first travel time from the first vehicle at a second vehicle following the first vehicle;
calculating at the second vehicle a first journey time for the second vehicle as a function of the first travel time;
determining at the second vehicle a second travel time of the second vehicle over a second route component on the journey route; and
transmitting the first journey time for the second vehicle and the second travel time from the second vehicle to a third vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (27)
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