Patent ID: 8428078

Claim:
A mobile communication apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that receives, as Vehicle Information and Communication Systems (VICS) information, correlation information correlating area and transmission resource; a storage unit that stores therein the correlation information received by the receiving unit; an area deducing unit that deduces in which area from among a plurality of areas the mobile communication apparatus is located; a selecting unit that selects the transmission resource correlated, in the correlation information stored by the storage unit, with the area deduced by the area deducing unit; and a transmitter that, using the transmission resource selected by the selecting unit, transmits data to a second mobile communication apparatus, wherein if an autonomously managed area in which the data is directly transmitted between the mobile communication apparatus and the second mobile communication apparatus and a centrally managed area in which data transmission by the mobile communication apparatus and the second mobile communication apparatus is controlled by a base station are present, the storage unit stores therein attribute information indicating for each area from among the plurality of areas, whether the area is the autonomously managed area or the centrally managed area, and the selecting unit, based on the attribute information stored by the storage unit, determines whether the deduced area is the autonomously managed area or the centrally managed area, and upon determining the deduced area to be the autonomously managed area, selects the transmission resource correlated with the deduced area, and upon determining the deduced area to be the centrally managed area, selects a transmission resource reported by the base station.