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F-Trail: Finding Patterns in Taxi Trajectories
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2013)
  • Yasuko MATSUBARA
  • Evangelos Papalexakis
  • Lei LI
  • David LO, Singapore Management University
  • Yasushi Sakurai
  • Christos Faloutsos
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Publication Date
4-2013
Abstract

Given a large number of taxi trajectories, we would like to find interesting and unexpected patterns from the data. How can we summarize the major trends, and how can we spot anomalies? The analysis of trajectories has been an issue of considerable interest with many applications such as tracking trails of migrating animals and predicting the path of hurricanes. Several recent works propose methods on clustering and indexing trajectories data. However, these approaches are not especially well suited to pattern discovery with respect to the dynamics of social and economic behavior. To further analyze a huge collection of taxi trajectories, we develop a novel method, called F-Trail, which allows us to find meaningful patterns and anomalies. Our approach has the following advantages: (a) it is fast, and scales linearly on the input size, (b) it is effective, leading to novel discoveries, and surprising outliers. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, by performing experiments on real taxi trajectories. In fact, F-Trail does produce concise, informative and interesting patterns.

ISBN
9783642374531
Identifier
10.1007/978-3-642-37453-1_8
Publisher
Springer Verlag
City or Country
Gold Coast, Australia
Additional URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37453-1_8
Citation Information
Yasuko MATSUBARA, Evangelos Papalexakis, Lei LI, David LO, et al.. "F-Trail: Finding Patterns in Taxi Trajectories" Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2013) (2013) p. 86 - 98
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_lo/110/