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Automatic Generation of Geographically Accurate Bus Route Maps and its Evaluation

Authors:
Daisuke Yamamoto
Yonghwan Kim
Sogo Mizutani

Keywords: network; bus route map; stroke.

Abstract:
There have been many studies on the automatic generation of deformed route maps, but there have only been a few studies on the automatic generation of geographically accurate route maps. This is because mapping route data and bus route data and drawing them on a map are difficult tasks due to various constraints, such as route placement problems. In this study we estimate bus routes that use bus stop coordinate series and strokes and propose an automatic bus route map generation method based on this estimation. In the proposed method, bus stop nodes are first generated on the road network from the bus stop coordinate series. Then, the route between two adjacent bus stop nodes is estimated using the road priority search method, and this is set as the bus route. In the road priority search method, the route with the fewest number of left and right turns between bus stop nodes is estimated as the bus route. Additionally, when drawing multiple routes, the placement order of overlapping sections is dynamically calculated so that intersections when turning left or right are reduced. The experimental results applying the proposed method to 30 bus routes show that the geographically accurate route maps with few intersections among these routes can be generated correctly.

Pages: 165 to 174

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2022. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2022

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2628