Abstract: According to the topology of the vehicle network, research and analysis of the complexity of the deployment environment, the vehicle network topology is divided into two dimensional topological structure of urban and non-urban one dimensional topological structure. Aiming at the characteristics of two kinds of topology structure, respectively, to formulate the corresponding location update strategy to reduce the cost of update, according to the two dimensional topological structure of urban is proposed for update strategy based on hierarchical location management, and put forward the update strategy of adjacent location areas overlap each other in non-urban one dimensional topology structure. The management strategies can meet vehicle network structure and reduce the location management cost.