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Abstract

Disclosed is a traffic information distribution apparatus 1 including date-time information in traffic information acquired by the traffic information acquire unit 12 or generated by the traffic information prediction unit, and accumulates the traffic information in the traffic information DB 13. When the traffic information distribution apparatus 1 receives distribution request information transmitted from the in-vehicle terminal 5, based on date-time information of reference traffic information held by the in-vehicle terminal 5 included in the distribution request information, the traffic information distribution apparatus 1 retrieves traffic information including the same date-time information as the date-time information of the reference traffic information from the traffic information DB 13. Then, difference traffic information generation unit 18 generates difference traffic information between the retrieved traffic information and traffic information to be distributed, and the traffic information distribution apparatus 1 distributes the generated difference traffic information to the in-vehicle terminal 5.

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