Monitoring and controlling a transporting device for containers

A method for monitoring and control of an occupancy rate of a transport path with one or more individually speed controllable adjoining sections (T1, T2, T3) in a bottling plant, comprising: detecting a container occupancy over a certain area at an inlet region (E1) of the transport path; characterized by Simulation of a container stream in real time using the detected occupancy container in the inlet area of ​​the transport path and a transport speed, wherein the simulation comprises: registering the detected value for the containers occupancy in a shift register (SR1); and synchronizing a shift register clock at the transport speed, so that the shift register contents (DW0, DW1, ...) maps the container assignment on the transport path.