Traffic information providing method and apparatus for automatically scrolling traffic information display screen

The present invention relates to a traffic information providing apparatus and method, the apparatus of the present invention includes a receiver for receiving the live traffic information; Period traffic information management database for storing the period-specific traffic information; Dividing the screen currently being displayed on the information display unit to unit areas, and the auto-scroll processing unit for selecting the unit areas in sequence; And a control unit for outputting through a display unit to detect the additional traffic information for the unit area corresponding to being delivered to selected information for the unit area based on the selection information from the auto-scroll processing, the method of the present invention receiving process of receiving real-time traffic information; The recording process for storing the traffic information section; Split Screen to split the process that is currently displayed screen information to the unit area; Selecting step of selecting the unit areas in sequence; Process for detecting the additional traffic information for the unit area corresponding interval from traffic information stored in the storage process, on the basis of the selection information; And a process for displaying the additional traffic. Thus, the present invention is to reduce the risk of traffic accidents the user can easily select the real-time traffic information retrieval point. DMB, TPEG, traffic information, the terminal screen, scroll