Method and apparatus for determining the position of a vehicle

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining the position of a vehicle (1) by means of at least one selectable terminal (12) of a radio network localization system (2) and a computing unit (11), by the radio network localization system (2) a position of the connected terminal (12) is detected, and first position signals of the vehicle (1) to the terminal (12) and / or to the computing unit (11) are transferred, the first position signals are transmitted immediately on call in a first mode, wherein manual retrieval and or / automatically generated, and in a second mode, the first position signals periodically at a frequency (f) are transmitted, wherein the frequency (f) is variable.