Dividing traffic sub-areas based on a parallel K-means algorithm

Binfeng Wang, Li Tao, Chao Gao, Dawen Xia, Zhuobo Rong, Wu Wang, Zili Zhang

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Abstract

In order to alleviate the traffic congestion and reduce the complexity of traffic control and management, it is necessary to exploit traffic sub-areas division which should be effective in planing traffic. Some researchers applied the K-Means algorithm to divide traffic sub-areas on the taxi trajectories. However, the traditional K-Means algorithms faced difficulties in processing large-scale Global Position System(GPS) trajectories of taxicabs with the restrictions of memory, I/O, computing performance. This paper proposes a Parallel Traffic Sub-Areas Division(PTSD) method which consists of two stages, on the basis of the Parallel K-Means(PKM) algorithm. During the first stage, we develop a process to cluster traffic sub-areas based on the PKM algorithm. Then, the second stage, we identify boundary of traffic sub-areas on the base of cluster result. According to this method, we divide traffic sub-areas of Beijing on the real-word (GPS) trajectories of taxicabs. The experiment and discussion show that the method is effective in dividing traffic sub-areas.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKnowledge Science, Engineering and Management - 7th International Conference, KSEM 2014, Proceedings
EditorsRobert Buchmann, Claudiu Vasile Kifor, Jian Yu
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages127-137
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9783319120959
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2014 - Sibiu, Romania
Duration: 16 Oct 201418 Oct 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8793
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2014
Country/TerritoryRomania
CitySibiu
Period16/10/1418/10/14

Keywords

  • GPS trajectories
  • K-means
  • MapReduce
  • Traffic sub-areas

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