Abstract: The invention relates to an assistance system for selecting a route with the aid of a computing device, a storage device and an input and output device, each route being described by route parameters influencing the journey and stored in the storage device, and whose computing device selects a specific route after an input of search criteria and outputs it via the output device. It is proposed according to the invention that the computing device uses the route parameters influencing the journey to determine macroscopic route features for each route which can be interrogated by the input of search criteria for macroscopic route features.