Taxi Trip Time Prediction Using Similar Trips And Road Network Data

Trip time prediction is an important problem. Taxi passengers often want to know when they will arrive at their destinations. We design a method of predicting taxi trip time by finding historical similar trips. Trips are clustered based on origin, destination, and start time. Then similar trips are mapped to road networks to find frequent sub-trajectories that are used to model travel time of the various parts of the routes. Experimental results show this method is effective.