Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2016

Abstract

Locating only one GPS position to a road segment accurately is crucial to many location-based services such as mobile taxi-hailing service, geo-tagging, POI check-in, etc. This problem is challenging because of errors including the GPS errors and the digital map errors (misalignment and the same representation of bidirectional roads) and a lack of context information. To the best of our knowledge, no existing work studies this problem directly and the work to reduce GPS signal errors by considering hardware aspect is the most relevant. Consequently, this work is the first attempt to solve the problem of locating one GPS position to a road segment. We study the problem in a data-driven view to make this process ubiquitous by proposing a tractable, efficient and robust generative model. In addition, we extend our solution to the real application scenario, i.e., taxi-hailing service, and propose an approach to further improve the result accuracy by considering destination information. We use the real taxi GPS data to evaluate our approach. The results show that our approach outperforms all the existing approaches significantly while maintaining robustness, and it can achieve an accuracy as high as 90% in some situations.

Discipline

Geographic Information Sciences | Theory and Algorithms

Publication

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016)

First Page

740

Last Page

751

ISBN

978-1-4503-4461-6

Identifier

10.1145/2971648.2971702

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

Heidelberg, Germany

Additional URL

http://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971702

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