Is only one GPS position sufficient to locate you to the road network accurately?

• Main Authors: WU, Hao, SUN, Weiwei, ZHENG, Baihua
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: GPS; Location-based services; Map matching; Positioning; Databases and Information Systems; Geographic Information Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3585; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4586/viewcontent/Only1GPSSufficientRoadNetwork_2016.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Locating only one GPS position to a road segment accurately is crucial to many location-based services such as mobile taxihailing 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.