Patent ID: 8340718

Claim:
A method of estimating road traffic on a roads network, comprising: receiving information from a first information source and a second information source, wherein the information received from the first information source and the second information source is one among a first information type and a second information type; temporarily storing the information received from the first information source and the second information source in a database; defining at least two different information processing methods, each one associated with a respective one of said information types, wherein at least one of the different information processing methods is associated with a combination of the first and second information types received from the first and second information sources; storing an identifier of the at least one of the different information processing methods associated with the combination of the first and second information types; selecting an information processing method of the at least two different information processing methods based on the information type of the received information and on at least one predefined criterion; processing the received information with the selected information processing method; and providing an estimation of the road traffic based on the result of said processing.