Traffic situation
The traffic situation is an actual situation , which takes into account the vehicle density , traffic obstructions and the weather situation on all traffic routes and modes of transport .
- Forecast: The ADAC creates annual traffic jam forecasts and publishes them in its traffic jam calendar . Traffic bottlenecks due to construction sites and the different school holidays of the federal states as well as the factory holidays are included and allow a forecast of the traffic load on the most important routes. Through traffic management systems and traffic regulations compliant, temporary release of the hard shoulder on selected motorways and nationally by deflecting arrows can be congestion minimized.
- Actual traffic situation: The traffic situation is reported on the traffic radio at regular intervals , usually after the hourly news broadcasts and every half hour. Local radio stations often provide more precise information about the traffic situation in the region, while larger stations only report on motorways and federal highways . Incidents that affect pedestrian and bicycle traffic and other traffic on downstream roads usually do not play a role in the reports on the traffic situation. It describes the situation on the roads, in particular obstacles such as traffic jams, accidents, unfavorable climatic conditions and the like. Increasingly, disruptions in rail or air traffic in the event of special events are also communicated by general traffic radio and reports on inland navigation .
- Warning transmission: Especially in metropolitan areas there are often their own transmitters that only send traffic information. Other media are the traffic warning radio and TMC-capable car radios , in which route-related messages are shown on the display or in the ARI function , which both interrupt CD and DVD recordings played for the purpose of traffic information after the transmitter has triggered a signal before they are switched off again after the signal is sent again. continued to be played at the point of interruption. Recently, traffic reports can also be sent to a mobile phone via APPs - often route-related.
Web links
Wiktionary: Traffic situation - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- http://vmz.bremen.de/ Current traffic situation in Bremen