Research on Coding of Road Information in ITS

The code of road information is analyzed, based on the data provided by a model of the traffic volume. The method to compress data is equivalent conversion of the initial source, so the probability distribution of the equivalent conversed source becomes more sequential with less entropy value and greater compression ratio than those of initial one. When being transmitted, the instantaneously decodable code could be coded via huffman-algorithm in order that the average length of variable length prefix code (VLPC) is closed to the entropy value of the source. The result shows that the correlation of traffic volume at a cross is more than that in a street as well as in whole a city. Its achievements can be applied in ITS to communicate the road information.