An incremental map-matching method based on road network topology

Di Zhu, Yu Liu

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Abstract

The emergence of big spatio-temporal data brings brand new perspectives as well as challenges for us to investigate and understand urban space. Due to existence of GPS position error, it is inevitable to adopt the map-matching methods to map the spatio-temporal trajectories onto geographic space. This research focuses on the low-sampling trajectories of floating cars in urban road networks by formalizing the map-matching process and exploring the influence of both the geometric and topology constraints on matching results.To solve the problem of matching low-sampling GPS data in the context of complex urban road networks, we proposea topology-constrained incremental matching algorithm (TIM). Utilizing a sample GPS trajectory of Beijing float car as an example, the TIM algorithm is verified to be efficient and accurate give various road network complexity. Our study is valuable for the pre-processing of massive spatio-temporal data, and has the potential to benefit trajectory data mining and related urban informatics research in the future.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)77-83
Number of pages7
JournalWuhan Daxue Xuebao (Xinxi Kexue Ban)/Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University
Volume42
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 5 2017
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The National Natural Science Foundation of China, Nos.41271386, 41428102.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Research and Development Office of Wuhan University. All right reserved.

Keywords

  • Increment
  • Low-sampling GPS trajectory
  • Map-matching
  • Road network topology

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