Urban network-wide traffic speed estimation with massive ride-sourcing GPS traces
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Author(s)
Yu, Jingru
Stettler, Marc EJ
Angeloudis, Panagiotis
Hu, Simon
Chen, Xiqun Michael
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The ability to obtain accurate estimates of city-wide urban traffic patterns is essential for the development of effective intelligent transportation systems and the efficient operation of smart mobility platforms. This paper focuses on the network-wide traffic speed estimation, using trajectory data generated by a city-wide fleet of ride-sourcing vehicles equipped with GPS-capable smartphones. A cell-based map-matching technique is proposed to link vehicle trajectories with road geometries, and to produce network-wide spatio-temporal speed matrices. Data limitations are addressed using the Schatten p-norm matrix completion algorithm, which can minimize speed estimation errors even with high rates of data unavailability. A case study using data from Chengdu, China, demonstrates that the algorithm performs well even in situations involving continuous data loss over a few hours, and consequently, addresses large-scale network-wide traffic state estimation problems with missing data, while at the same time outperforming other data recovery techniques that were used as benchmarks. Our approach can be used to generate congestion maps that can help monitor and visualize traffic dynamics across the network, and therefore form the basis for new traffic management, proactive congestion identification, and congestion mitigation strategies.
Date Issued
2020-03
Date Acceptance
2020-01-24
Citation
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2020, 112, pp.136-152
ISSN
0968-090X
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
136
End Page
152
Journal / Book Title
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
Volume
112
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968090X19307521?via%3Dihub
Grant Number
EP/R512655/1
Subjects
08 Information and Computing Sciences
09 Engineering
15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
Logistics & Transportation
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-02-03