Addressing the Need for Map-Matching Speed: Localizing Globalb Curve-Matching Algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Carola Wenk;Randall Salas;Dieter Pfoser

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at San Antonio;University of Texas at San Antonio;RA Computer Technology Institute Akteou 11 GR-11851 Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • SSDBM '06 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

With vehicle tracking data becoming an important sensor data resource for a range of applications related to traffic assessment and prediction, fast and accurate mapmatching algorithms become a necessary means to ultimately utilize this data. This work proposes a fast mapmatching algorithm which exploits tracking data error estimates in a provably correct way and offers a quality guarantee for the computed result trajectory. A new model for the map-matching task is introduced which takes tracking error estimates into account. The proposed Adaptive Clipping algorithm (i) provably solves this map-matching task and (ii) utilizes the weak Fréchet distance to measure similarity between curves. The algorithm uses the error estimates in the trajectory data to reduce the search space (error-aware pruning), while offering the quality guarantee of finding a curve which minimizes the weak Fréchet distance to the vehicle trajectory among all possible curves in the road network. Moreover, this work introduces an outputsensitive variant of an existing weak Fréchet map-matching algorithm, which is also employed in the Adaptive Clipping algorithm. Output-sensitiveness paired with error-aware pruning makes Adaptive Clipping the first map-matching algorithm that provably solves a well-defined map-matching task. An experimental evaluation establishes further that Adaptive Clipping is also in a practical setting a fast algorithm that at the same time produces high-quality matching results.