Detection of Most Popular Routes and Effective Time Segments Using Trajectory Distributions

There have been some innovative research studies for detecting the Most Popular Route (MRP) using GPS devices in order to support tourists who travel in an unfamiliar area. The MPR is a route on which many moving objects move the most among the entire possible routes. Current MRP detection methods do not take into account the time of trajectory measurement, however, road conditions vary depending on a time zone. Therefore, the detected MRP may not be an appropriate route that was defined outside of the certain time zone. The aim of this study is to propose a new method to detect the MRP which is capable of considering a time zone of trajectory measurement. In addition to the new method, "Popularity Measure" is proposed in order to verify the suitability of the detected MRP. The detected MRP using the existing and proposed method are evaluated by compared from a viewpoint of this popularity measures.