Title
Travel cost inference from sparse, spatio temporally correlated time series using Markov models
Abstract
The monitoring of a system can yield a set of measurements that can be modeled as a collection of time series. These time series are often sparse, due to missing measurements, and spatiotemporally correlated, meaning that spatially close time series exhibit temporal correlation. The analysis of such time series offers insight into the underlying system and enables prediction of system behavior. While the techniques presented in the paper apply more generally, we consider the case of transportation systems and aim to predict travel cost from GPS tracking data from probe vehicles. Specifically, each road segment has an associated travel-cost time series, which is derived from GPS data. We use spatio-temporal hidden Markov models (STHMM) to model correlations among different traffic time series. We provide algorithms that are able to learn the parameters of an STHMM while contending with the sparsity, spatio-temporal correlation, and heterogeneity of the time series. Using the resulting STHMM, near future travel costs in the transportation network, e.g., travel time or greenhouse gas emissions, can be inferred, enabling a variety of routing services, e.g., eco-routing. Empirical studies with a substantial GPS data set offer insight into the design properties of the proposed framework and algorithms, demonstrating the effectiveness and efficiency of travel cost inferencing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.14778/2536360.2536375
PVLDB
Keywords
Field
DocType
spatially close time series,time series,future travel cost,different traffic time series,travel cost,gps data,gps tracking data,travel cost inference,markov model,spatio temporally correlated time,travel time,associated travel-cost time series,travel cost inferencing
Flow network,Data mining,Computer science,Markov model,Inference,Correlation,Tracking data,Global Positioning System,Hidden Markov model,Empirical research
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
9
2150-8097
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
58
2.09
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bin Yang170634.93
Chenjuan Guo230116.81
Christian S. Jensen3106511129.45