Map-Matching Using Shortest Paths

Abstract

We consider several variants of the map-matching problem, which seeks to find a path Q in graph G that has the smallest distance to a given trajectory P (which is likely not to be exactly on the graph). In a typical application setting, P models a noisy GPS trajectory from a person traveling on a road network, and the desired path Q should ideally correspond to the actual path in G that the person has traveled. Existing map-matching algorithms in the literature consider all possible paths in G as potential candidates for Q . We find solutions to the map-matching problem under different settings. In particular, we restrict the set of paths to shortest paths, or concatenations of shortest paths, in G . As a distance measure, we use the Fréchet distance, which is a suitable distance measure for curves since it takes the continuity of the curves into account.