Method of regulating a transport system

A method of regulating traffic in a transport system in which vehicles travel on a line provided with a plurality of stations at which passengers can board and alight, a running of the vehicles being regulated as a function of a passenger load on said vehicles, the method comprising:

• monitoring the passenger load on the vehicles by measuring a weight of the passengers in the vehicles;
• detecting whether each vehicle is in an overloaded state by comparing the weight of passengers as measured with an overload threshold assigned to each vehicle;
• and
• modifying the running of the vehicles traveling on the line by acting at each station at which an overloaded vehicle arrives to reduce a time interval between a departure of the overloaded vehicle and the departure of a preceding vehicle.