Patent ID: 8884781
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
1. A terminal apparatus to be mounted on a vehicle to perform vehicle-to-vehicle communication, comprising: a transmission unit configured to form and transmit a frame in which vehicle data received from a terminal apparatus mounted on other vehicle and vehicle data of a driver's vehicle are combined, the vehicle data of the driver's vehicle including both a road ID of a road on which the driver's vehicle is traveling and traveling speed, by referring to map data in which a road ID is allocated, as identification information, to every preset section of at least part of roads; a traffic jam determination unit configured to determine whether the section corresponding to the every road ID is congested; and an information compressing unit configured to delete traveling speed from the frame with respect to a section that has been determined not to be congested by the traffic jam determination unit.