Determining user specific semantics of locations extracted from trajectory data

authored by
Jens Golze, Monika Sester
Abstract

Knowledge about people's daily travel behavior is very relevant for transportation planning, but also for urban and regional planning in general. This information is typically collected through questionnaires or surveys. With the increasing availability of mobile devices capable of using Global Navigation Satellite Systems, it is possible to derive individual mobility behavior on a large scale and for a variety of different users. However, the challenge is to derive the relevant information from the mere GNSS trajectories; in this paper, the relevant information is semantic locations such as home, work place or leisure places. This paper presents an approach to first detect and cluster stop points as potential semantic locations of a user, which are then enriched with Points of Interest from OpenStreetMap and additional features, and finally a Viterbi optimization assigns the most probable semantics to these locations. Overall, this approach produces promising results for predicting user location semantics on a generalized level.

Organisation(s)
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics
Type
Conference article
Journal
Transportation Research Procedia
Volume
78
Pages
215-221
No. of pages
7
ISSN
2352-1457
Publication date
2024
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Transportation
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2024.02.028 (Access: Open)