Review article

The article describes approaches to organizing an automated traffic management system. An experiment is described aimed at determining the values of the travel time and buffer index in individual sections of the road network in nine cities of Russia based on the data from «Yandex.Traffic Jams» service. A typology of sections of the road network according to the nature of the change in the travel time and buffer index on them and methods for expressly evaluating the buffer index based on the obtained values of the travel time index are proposed.