in order to be able to undertake a reliable prediction of a movement trajectory of an object moving in road traffic even for relatively long prediction periods , a method is proposed in which there is firstly determined with the aid of an evaluation of a determined movement variable of the object a driving maneuver that is executed by the object . a model of the movement of the object is then selected as a function of the determined driving maneuver , and the movement trajectory of the object is calculated with the aid of the selected model . there is also proposed an apparatus for predicting the movement trajectory of an object that is suitable for carrying out the method . the object can be both a motor vehicle and an object in the surroundings of the motor vehicle .