Patent ID: 8332131

Claim:
An apparatus for decoding a Transport Protocol Expert Group (TPEG) traffic information message comprising: a decoder for extracting traffic information from the TPEG traffic information message, the extracted traffic information including message management information including (1) message identification (ID) information indicating that the traffic information is status information and (2) a generation time of the traffic information message, status information including traffic-flow status information of a link, and location information including latitude and longitude information of the link corresponding to the traffic-flow status information; and a controller for outputting the traffic-flow status information by referring to the location information, wherein the status information further includes additional information in the form of text data and a language code identifying a language of the text data, the location information further includes vertex information of a vertex within the link, wherein the vertex information includes longitude and latitude information of the vertex, the latitude and longitude information of the link being different from the latitude and longitude information of the vertex.