Method of Dynamic Identification of Traffic Flow Conditions According to the Floating Cars Speed Vector

The article considers different approaches to justify the possibility of using actual navigation information obtained from public transportation buses in order to identify a new energy criterion, i.e. speed vector of “floating” cars. Under certain circumstances, this approach would provide both a dynamic evaluation of urban traffic flows and a dynamic redistribution of traffic flows across the network with a course of time, which is a precondition for autonomous vehicle control.