Patent ID: 8918278

Claim:
A method for modeling and processing vehicular traffic data, comprising the steps of: generating a representation of a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; acquiring vehicular traffic data associated with said road network from at least a plurality of mobile sensors in communication with a wireless telecommunication network; determining a current vehicular traffic situation based on current vehicular traffic data for a road section, wherein gaps in current vehicular traffic data for a road section are filled by using values that are predicted; and predicting a future vehicular traffic situation with aid of vehicular traffic behavior patterns and correlation rules, wherein said correlation rules of said road section network are based on historic vehicular traffic data and are time dependent, and said time dependent correlation rules determine correlation of and interrelation between different road sections as a function of time, wherein said behavior patterns of said road section network are time dependent, and wherein said time dependent behavior pattern of a road section describes at least one of: regular changing of associated normalized travel time (NTT) values as a function of time or regular changing of associated speed values as a function of time.