Patent ID: 8165763

Claim:
A method for controlling gear shifts in an automated stepped gear transmission of a motor vehicle in which operating parameters of the motor vehicle are detected and evaluated for initiating and carrying out a gear shift from a currently engaged gear to a target gear, the method comprising the step of: before a shift in each case a shift speed (n_schalt) for initiating the shift and a target gear are determined, providing either a shift-speed-orientated shift and a target-speed-orientated shift, and immediately before a gear shift, deciding, as a function of at least one of the operating parameters, whether to carry out the shift as either the shift-speed-orientated shift or the target-speed-orientated shift; continuously determining, while driving, a driving resistance of the motor vehicle and carrying out the gear shift as the target-speed-orientated shift, if the driving resistance is relatively low, and carrying out the gear shift as a shift-speed-orientated shift, if the driving resistance is relatively high.