METHOD AND DETERMINING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING EMISSION LOCATIONS, AND METHOD AND TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM BASED THEREON FOR IMMISSION-DEPENDENT TRAFFIC CONTROL

• US 20110208414A1
• Filed: 02/25/2011
• Published: 08/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: MATHIAS, PAUL, ALTHEN, SEBASTIAN
• Granted Patent: US 8,903,646 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/117
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

A method for automatically determining emission locations of selected emitted substances originating from a selected immission location. In this context, on the basis of input values which relate directly or indirectly to the emitted substances and by using defined rules of a propagation model suitable for determining propagation of the emitted substances, the emitted substances are traced back spatially, with accompanying indication of distribution values. Furthermore, a determining system carries out the determining method, and a traffic control system carries out a traffic control method.

Claims

1. A method for automatically determining emission locations of emitted substances selected originating from an immission location, which comprises the step of:

tracing back spatially the emitted substances, with accompanying indication of distribution values, on a basis of input values which relate directly or indirectly to the emitted substances and by using defined rules of a propagation model suitable for determining propagation of the emitted substances.

2. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises selecting the immission location from a listing of a plurality of specific immission locations, assigned immission values of which have been determined on a basis of application of the propagation model.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein in an application of the propagation model, locally assigned emission values, which are determined and/or simulated on a basis of measured data, are used as the input values.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the input values contain traffic data, based on the measured data, of a traffic situation.

5. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises selecting the immission location on a basis of local or regional concentration values, present and/or calculated at the immission location, for a number of the emitted substances.

6. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises during an application of the propagation model, providing emissions with markings in accordance with their origin.

7. The method according to claim 6, which further comprises marking individual particles with origin markers which are dependent on their emission location.

8. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises, in addition to the emission locations, determining classes of emitters of the emitted substances.

9. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises, in addition to the emission locations, determining emission times of the emitted substances.

10. A method for immission-dependent traffic control in a traffic area, which comprises the steps of:

generating control signals for controlling traffic at an emission location, the control signals being determined automatically on the basis of an immission location at which emitted substances from the emission location can be determined as immissions.

11. The method for controlling traffic according to claim 10, which further comprises determining the emission location by applying a determining method for automatically determining emission locations of the emitted substances originating from the immission location, which comprises tracing back spatially the emitted substances, with accompanying indication of distribution values, on a basis of input values which relate directly or indirectly to the emitted substances and by using defined rules of a propagation model suitable for determining propagation of the emitted substances.

12. The method for controlling traffic according to claim 10, wherein the control signals include information for at least one of road users or residents affected by traffic control, the information relating to at least one of quantification or representation of propagation on a basis of spatial tracing back of the emitted substances.

13. A determining system for automatically determining emission locations of emitted substances on a basis of an immission location, the determining system comprising:

an input interface for input values relating directly or indirectly to the emitted substances; and

a determining unit which during operation uses rules of a propagation model suitable for determining propagation of the emitted substances to carry out spatial tracing back of the emitted substances on a basis of the input values, with accompanying indication of distribution values.

14. A traffic control system for immission-dependent traffic control in a traffic area, the traffic control system comprising:

a control unit which during operation generates control signals for controlling traffic at an emission location; and

a determining system embodied such that during operation said determining system automatically determines the emission location on a basis of an immission location at which emitted substances from the emission location can be measured as immissions.

15. The traffic control system according to claim 14, wherein said determining system has an input interface for input values relating directly or indirectly to the emitted substances, and a determining unit which during operation uses rules of a propagation model suitable for determining propagation of the emitted substances to carry out spatial tracing back of the emitted substances on a basis of the input values, with accompanying indication of distribution values.