Patent ID: 8903646

Claim:
A method for immission-dependent traffic control in a traffic area, which comprises the steps of: determining emitted substances emitted at an emission location, via at least one of sensors at an immission location, wherein the determining the emitted substances is performed by sensors at the immission location; providing a traffic control system having a computer for generating control signals for controlling traffic at the emission location, the control signals being determined automatically on a basis of the immission location at which the emitted substances from the emission location can be determined as immissions, the emission location and the immission location being separate and independent locations and the emitted substances being traced back from the immission location to a source of the emitted substances being the emission location, wherein the control signals including information for 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, and the control signals being communicated to the traffic control system to alleviate the traffic and control traffic lights; and determining, via the computer, the emission location by applying a determining method for automatically determining emission locations of the emitted substances originating from the immission location, which includes tracing back spatially the emitted substances, with accompanying indication of distribution values, on a basis of input values relating directly or indirectly to the emitted substances and via a propagation model suitable for determining propagation of the emitted substances, the propagation model taking into account at least one of the following factors for determining the emission location of the emitted substances transported by airstreams: wind direction, wind speed, temperature, inversion weather situations, road categories, emission types, structural elements, and topography between the emission location and the immission location, and wherein in an application of the propagation model, locally assigned emission values, which are at least one of determined or simulated on a basis of measured data, are determined as the input values.