scholarly journals An Intersection-First Approach for Road Network Generation from Crowd-Sourced Vehicle Trajectories

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caili Zhang ◽  
Longgang Xiang ◽  
Siyu Li ◽  
Dehao Wang

Extracting highly detailed and accurate road network information from crowd-sourced vehicle trajectory data, which has the advantages of being low cost and able to update fast, is a hot topic. With the rapid development of wireless transmission technology, spatial positioning technology, and the improvement of software and hardware computing ability, more and more researchers are focusing on the analysis of Global Positioning System (GPS) trajectories and the extraction of road information. Road intersections are an important component of roads, as they play a significant role in navigation and urban planning. Even though there have been many studies on this subject, it remains challenging to determine road intersections, especially for crowd-sourced vehicle trajectory data with lower accuracy, lower sampling frequency, and uneven distribution. Therefore, we provided a new intersection-first approach for road network generation based on low-frequency taxi trajectories. Firstly, road intersections from vector space and raster space were extracted respectively via using different methods; then, we presented an integrated identification strategy to fuse the intersection extraction results from different schemes to overcome the sparseness of vehicle trajectory sampling and its uneven distribution; finally, we adjusted road information, repaired fractured segments, and extracted the single/double direction information and the turning relationships of the road network based on the intersection results, to guarantee precise geometry and correct topology for the road networks. Compared with other methods, this method shows better results, both in terms of their visual inspections and quantitative comparisons. This approach can solve the problems mentioned above and ensure the integrity and accuracy of road intersections and road networks. Therefore, the proposed method provides a promising solution for enriching and updating navigable road networks and can be applied in intelligent transportation systems.

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongyi Ni ◽  
Lijun Xie ◽  
Tian Xie ◽  
Binhua Shi ◽  
Yao Zheng

Nowadays, most vehicles are equipped with positioning devices such as GPS which can generate a tremendous amount of trajectory data and upload them to the server in real time. The trajectory data can reveal the shape and evolution of the road network and therefore has an important value for road planning, vehicle navigation, traffic analysis, and so on. In this paper, a road network generation method is proposed based on the incremental learning of vehicle trajectories. Firstly, the input vehicle trajectory data are cleaned by a preprocess module. Then, the original scattered positions are clustered and mapped to the representation points which stand for the feature points of the real roads. After that, the corresponding representation points are connected based on the original connection information of the trajectories. Finally, all representation points are connected by a Delaunay triangulation network and the real road segments are found by a shortest path searching approach between the connected representation point pairs. Experiments show that this method can build the road network from scratch and refine it with the input data continuously. Both the accuracy and timeliness of the extracted road network can continuously be improved with the growth of real-time trajectory data.


Author(s):  
Cheng Zhou ◽  
Wenjing Li ◽  
Hongguo Jia

Road generalization is not only helpful to simplify complicated road networks but can also satisfy the needs of reasonable display of roads under varying scales, thus offering basis for updating and grading urban roads. This paper proposes a selection method for road network generalization by integrating road-associated vehicle trajectory dynamic properties and road features and calculating the importance of urban roads. First of all, the location and motion information of floating vehicles are associated to relevant roads to generate the dynamic properties of roads. Then, the dynamic and static properties of roads are analyzed, and the cluster analysis is conducted to the trajectory points at road intersections to obtain the importance of some road intersections there are vehicles passing by. Afterwards, the weights of roads are calculated using the dominance rough set, the roads are ranked by weight and the practical significance of ranking results is analyzed. Finally, the selection rules for the basic framework of road network are determined to meet with different requirements and guarantee both connectivity and completeness of road networks. The results show that the relative importance of roads is made clear by taking advantage of the rough set and the generalized road network highlights the distribution and connection of urban main roads.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1162
Author(s):  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Xiang Li ◽  
Qianyu Zhang

With the rapid development of intelligent transportation, there comes huge demands for high-precision road network maps. However, due to the complex road spectral performance, it is very challenging to extract road networks with complete topologies. Based on the topological networks produced by previous road extraction methods, in this paper, we propose a Multi-conditional Generative Adversarial Network (McGAN) to obtain complete road networks by refining the imperfect road topology. The proposed McGAN, which is composed of two discriminators and a generator, takes both original remote sensing image and the initial road network produced by existing road extraction methods as input. The first discriminator employs the original spectral information to instruct the reconstruction, and the other discriminator aims to refine the road network topology. Such a structure makes the generator capable of receiving both spectral and topological information of the road region, thus producing more complete road networks compared with the initial road network. Three different datasets were used to compare McGan with several recent approaches, which showed that the proposed method significantly improved the precision and recall of the road networks, and also worked well for those road regions where previous methods could hardly obtain complete structures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 490
Author(s):  
Qingsheng Guo ◽  
Huihui Wang ◽  
Jie He ◽  
Chuanqi Zhou ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
...  

With the rapid development of high-precision road network maps, low-precision road network maps (basic data unrelated to hardware) will need to be directly produced for traditional navigation software from high-precision maps. To do so, large amounts of vector data representing road networks must be simplified and spatial directional similarity in road networks must be maintained while reducing precision. In this study, an elite strategy genetic algorithm based on the grid model is applied to spatial directional adjustment in road networks for producing road network maps for traditional navigation. Firstly, semantic features and critical vertices are extracted from the road network with high precision. Secondly, some high-precision vertices are eliminated under constraints of the digital navigation map. During this process, the local shape maintenance of the road is considered, and the destruction of the spatial topological relationships is avoided. Thirdly, a genetic algorithm for minimizing the total changes in road azimuths at nodes of road networks is developed to maintain spatial directional relationships while reducing precision. Experimental results and visualization effects on the test data of different cities show that this method is suitable for generating road network maps for traditional navigation software from high-precision ones.


Author(s):  
Cheng Zhou ◽  
Wenjing Li ◽  
Hongguo Jia

Road generalization is not only helpful to simplify complicated road networks but can also satisfy the needs of reasonable display of roads under varying scales, thus offering basis for updating and grading urban roads. This paper proposes a selection method for road network generalization by integrating road-associated vehicle trajectory dynamic properties and road features and calculating the importance of urban roads. First of all, the location and motion information of floating vehicles are associated to relevant roads to generate the dynamic properties of roads. Then, the dynamic and static properties of roads are analyzed, and the cluster analysis is conducted to the trajectory points at road intersections to obtain the importance of some road intersections there are vehicles passing by. Afterwards, the weights of roads are calculated using the dominance rough set, the roads are ranked by weight and the practical significance of ranking results is analyzed. Finally, the selection rules for the basic framework of road network are determined to meet with different requirements and guarantee both connectivity and completeness of road networks. The results show that the relative importance of roads is made clear by taking advantage of the rough set and the generalized road network highlights the distribution and connection of urban main roads.


Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinggui Chen ◽  
Shiwen Wu ◽  
Jianjun Yang ◽  
Guodong Cong ◽  
Gongfa Li

It is common that many roads in disaster areas are damaged and obstructed after sudden-onset disasters. The phenomenon often comes with escalated traffic deterioration that raises the time and cost of emergency supply scheduling. Fortunately, repairing road network will shorten the time of in-transit distribution. In this paper, according to the characteristics of emergency supplies distribution, an emergency supply scheduling model based on multiple warehouses and stricken locations is constructed to deal with the failure of part of road networks in the early postdisaster phase. The detailed process is as follows. When part of the road networks fail, we firstly determine whether to repair the damaged road networks, and then a model of reliable emergency supply scheduling based on bi-level programming is proposed. Subsequently, an improved artificial bee colony algorithm is presented to solve the problem mentioned above. Finally, through a case study, the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed model and algorithm are verified.


Author(s):  
Francisco Arcas-Tunez ◽  
Fernando Terroso-Saenz

The development of Road Information Acquisition Systems (RIASs) based on the Mobile Crowdsensing (MCS) paradigm has been widely studied for the last years. In that sense, most of the existing MCS-based RIASs focus on urban road networks and assume a car-based scenario. However, there exist a scarcity of approaches that pay attention to rural and country road networks. In that sense, forest paths are used for a wide range of recreational and sport activities by many different people and they can be also affected by different problems or obstacles blocking them. As a result, this work introduces SAMARITAN, a framework for rural-road network monitoring based on MCS. SAMARITAN analyzes the spatio-temporal trajectories from cyclists extracted from the fitness application Strava so as to uncover potential obstacles in a target road network. The framework has been evaluated in a real-world network of forest paths in the city of Cieza (Spain) showing quite promising results.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Wan ◽  
Lin Yang ◽  
Shunping Zhou ◽  
Run Wang ◽  
Dezhi Wang ◽  
...  

The road-network matching method is an effective tool for map integration, fusion, and update. Due to the complexity of road networks in the real world, matching methods often contain a series of complicated processes to identify homonymous roads and deal with their intricate relationship. However, traditional road-network matching algorithms, which are mainly central processing unit (CPU)-based approaches, may have performance bottleneck problems when facing big data. We developed a particle-swarm optimization (PSO)-based parallel road-network matching method on graphics-processing unit (GPU). Based on the characteristics of the two main stages (similarity computation and matching-relationship identification), data-partition and task-partition strategies were utilized, respectively, to fully use GPU threads. Experiments were conducted on datasets with 14 different scales. Results indicate that the parallel PSO-based matching algorithm (PSOM) could correctly identify most matching relationships with an average accuracy of 84.44%, which was at the same level as the accuracy of a benchmark—the probability-relaxation-matching (PRM) method. The PSOM approach significantly reduced the road-network matching time in dealing with large amounts of data in comparison with the PRM method. This paper provides a common parallel algorithm framework for road-network matching algorithms and contributes to integration and update of large-scale road-networks.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tang ◽  
Deng ◽  
Huang ◽  
Liu ◽  
Chen

Ubiquitous trajectory data provides new opportunities for production and update of the road network. A number of methods have been proposed for road network construction and update based on trajectory data. However, existing methods were mainly focused on reconstruction of the existing road network, and the update of newly added roads was not given much attention. Besides, most of existing methods were designed for high sampling rate trajectory data, while the commonly available GPS trajectory data are usually low-quality data with noise, low sampling rates, and uneven spatial distributions. In this paper, we present an automatic method for detection and update of newly added roads based on the common low-quality trajectory data. First, additive changes (i.e., newly added roads) are detected using a point-to-segment matching algorithm. Then, the geometric structures of new roads are constructed based on a newly developed decomposition-combination map generation algorithm. Finally, the detected new roads are refined and combined with the original road network. Seven trajectory data were used to test the proposed method. Experiments show that the proposed method can successfully detect the additive changes and generate a road network which updates efficiently.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Marchetti ◽  
M. Moutton ◽  
S. Ludwig ◽  
L. Ibos ◽  
V. Feuillet ◽  
...  

Thermal mapping has been implemented since the late eighties to establish the susceptibility of road networks to ice occurrence with measurements from a radiometer and some atmospheric parameters. They are usually done before dawn during wintertime when the road energy is dissipated. The objective of this study was to establish if an infrared camera could improve the determination of ice road susceptibility, to build a new winter risk index, to improve the measurements rate, and to analyze its consistency with seasons and infrastructures environment. Data analysis obtained from the conventional approved radiometer sensing technique and the infrared camera has shown great similarities. A comparison was made with promising perspectives. The measurement rate to analyse a given road network could be increased by a factor two.


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