Title
Predictive analytics for enhancing travel time estimation in navigation apps of Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
Abstract
The explosive growth of the location-enabled devices coupled with the increasing use of Internet services has led to an increasing awareness of the importance and usage of geospatial information in many applications. The mobile navigation apps (often called \"Maps\"), use a variety of available data sources to calculate and predict the travel time for different modes. This paper evaluates the pedestrian mode of Maps apps in three major smartphone operating systems (Android, iOS and Windows Phone). We will demonstrate that the Maps apps on iOS, Android and Windows Phone in pedestrian mode, predict travel time without learning from the individual's movement profile. Then, we will exemplify that those apps suffer from a specific data quality issue (the absence of information about location and type of pedestrian crossings). Finally, we will illustrate learning from movement profile of individuals using predictive analytics models to improve the accuracy of travel time estimation for each user (personalization).
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3003965.3003976
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Predictive Analytics, Navigation, Movement Profile, Pedestrian, Location-Based Services, Personalization
Journal
abs/1705.08509
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.43
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pouria Amirian1565.96
Anahid Basiri2498.22
Jeremy Morley3273.85