Encoding network-constrained travel trajectories using routing algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Pablo Martinez Lerin;Daisuke Yamamoto;Naohisa Takahashi

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8555, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8555, Japan/ Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Age ...;Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8555, Japan

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This study proposes a generic encoder for network-constrained travel trajectories, and it implements two encoders by combining the proposed generic encoder with two routing algorithms, which reduce the size of a travel trajectory's path along a road network without modifying it. Although most previous trajectory compression methods introduce an error in the spatial component of trajectories to achieve compression, we argue that the path of a travel trajectory, i.e. the sequence of roads travelled, is crucial information for many applications. Experimental results obtained using a large-data set of real travel trajectories show that the two proposed encoders achieve high compression, outperforming a general purpose data compression method.