Patent ID: 8457869

Claim:
A method for ascertaining consumption values and/or emission values of a vehicle target group of vehicles located in a given traffic area as a function of a traffic control state, the method which comprises the following steps: ascertaining driving profiles of the respective vehicles in the traffic area and/or subgroups of the respective vehicle target group; assigning consumption models and/or emission models to the driving profiles; calculating the consumption values and/or emission values of the individual vehicles and/or of the subgroups; cumulating the consumption values and/or emission values of all the individual vehicles and/or of all the subgroups of the vehicle target group; determining a plurality of traffic-technology variables for the given traffic area; ascertaining the driving profiles of the respective vehicles and/or the subgroups of the vehicle target group on a basis of the traffic-technology variables; allocating individual vehicles and/or subgroups of a vehicle target group to a vehicle type group; and assigning a vehicle type group-related consumption model and/or emission model to the driving profiles of the vehicles of the vehicle type group.