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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,526 Views
18 Pages

Trajectory Compression with Spatio-Temporal Semantic Constraints

  • Yan Zhou,
  • Yunhan Zhang,
  • Fangfang Zhang,
  • Yeting Zhang and
  • Xiaodi Wang

Most trajectory compression methods primarily focus on geometric similarity between compressed and original trajectories, lacking explainability of compression results due to ignoring semantic information. This paper proposes a spatio-temporal semant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,865 Views
13 Pages

Spatial-Temporal Attentive LSTM for Vehicle-Trajectory Prediction

  • Rui Jiang,
  • Hongyun Xu,
  • Gelian Gong,
  • Yong Kuang and
  • Zhikang Liu

Vehicle-trajectory prediction is essential for intelligent traffic systems (ITS), as it can help autonomous vehicles to plan a safe and efficient path. However, it is still a challenging task because existing studies have mainly focused on the spatia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,498 Views
16 Pages

A Hybrid Spatio-Temporal Data Indexing Method for Trajectory Databases

  • Shengnan Ke,
  • Jun Gong,
  • Songnian Li,
  • Qing Zhu,
  • Xintao Liu and
  • Yeting Zhang

21 July 2014

In recent years, there has been tremendous growth in the field of indoor and outdoor positioning sensors continuously producing huge volumes of trajectory data that has been used in many fields such as location-based services or location intelligence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,368 Views
25 Pages

A Dynamic Trajectory Temporal Density Model for Analyzing Maritime Traffic Patterns

  • Dapeng Jiang,
  • Guoyou Shi,
  • Lin Ma,
  • Weifeng Li,
  • Xinjian Wang and
  • Guibing Zhu

19 February 2025

This study investigates the spatiotemporal density aggregation and pattern distribution of vessel traffic amidst bustling maritime logistics scenarios. Firstly, a relatively new spatiotemporal segmentation and reconstruction method is proposed for sh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,592 Views
20 Pages

12 September 2023

Trajectory prediction aims to predict the movement intention of traffic participants in the future based on the historical observation trajectories. For traffic scenarios, pedestrians, vehicles and other traffic participants have social interaction o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,178 Views
24 Pages

Raw GPS trajectory data are often very large and use up excessive storage space. The efficiency and accuracy of activity patterns analysis or individual–environment interaction modeling using such data may be compromised due to data size and computat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,381 Views
18 Pages

Differential Privacy-Based Spatial-Temporal Trajectory Clustering Scheme for LBSNs

  • Liang Zhu,
  • Tingting Lei,
  • Jinqiao Mu,
  • Jingzhe Mu,
  • Zengyu Cai and
  • Jianwei Zhang

6 September 2023

Location privacy preserving for location-based social networks (LBSNs) has been attracting a great deal of attention. Existing location privacy protection methods are disadvantaged by issues such as information leakage and low data availability, whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,482 Views
20 Pages

Optimizing Cruising Routes for Taxi Drivers Using a Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Model

  • Liang Wu,
  • Sheng Hu,
  • Li Yin,
  • Yazhou Wang,
  • Zhanlong Chen,
  • Mingqiang Guo,
  • Hao Chen and
  • Zhong Xie

Much of the taxi route-planning literature has focused on driver strategies for finding passengers and determining the hot spot pick-up locations using historical global positioning system (GPS) trajectories of taxis based on driver experience, dista...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,220 Views
13 Pages

17 January 2024

Advancements in navigation and tracking technologies have resulted in a significant increase in movement data within road networks. Analyzing the trajectories of network-constrained moving objects makes a profound contribution to transportation and u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,375 Views
24 Pages

In recent years, with the widespread use of location-aware handheld devices and the development of wireless networks, trajectory data have shown a trend of rapid growth in data volume and coverage, which has led to the prosperous development of locat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,065 Views
15 Pages

A Hybrid Method to Incrementally Extract Road Networks Using Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Data

  • Yunfei Zhang,
  • Zexu Zhang,
  • Jincai Huang,
  • Tingting She,
  • Min Deng,
  • Hongchao Fan,
  • Peng Xu and
  • Xingshen Deng

With the rapid development of urban traffic, accurate and up-to-date road maps are in crucial demand for daily human life and urban traffic control. Recently, with the emergence of crowdsourced mapping, a surge in academic attention has been paid to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
286 Views
19 Pages

Maritime Trajectory Forecasting via CNN–SOFTS-Based Coupled Spatio-Temporal Features

  • Yongfeng Suo,
  • Chunyu Yang,
  • Gaocai Li,
  • Qiang Mei and
  • Lei Cui

1 March 2026

Spatio-temporal features are crucial for maritime trajectory forecasting, especially in scenarios involving curved waterways or abrupt changes in ship motion patterns. Although Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, which are widely used for tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,403 Views
16 Pages

Trajectory big data is suitable for distributed storage retrieval due to its fast update speed and huge data volume, but currently there are problems such as hot data writing, storage skew, high I/O overhead and slow retrieval speed. In order to solv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,130 Views
17 Pages

3 August 2025

The Automatic Identification System (AIS) has become a key data source for ship behavior monitoring and maritime traffic management, widely used in trajectory prediction and anomaly detection. However, AIS data suffer from issues such as spatial spar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
823 Views
15 Pages

16 October 2025

This paper addresses the multi-trajectory prediction problem and a so-called Embedded-TCN-Transformer (EmbTCN-Transformer) model is designed by using the real-time historical trajectories in a formation. A temporal convolutional network (TCN) is util...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,229 Views
12 Pages

Estimation of Spatial-Temporal Distribution of Grazing Intensity Based on Sheep Trajectory Data

  • Xiantao Fan,
  • Chuanzhong Xuan,
  • Mengqin Zhang,
  • Yanhua Ma and
  • Yunqi Meng

14 February 2022

In the arid grasslands of northern China, unreasonable grazing methods can reduce the water content and species numbers of grassland vegetation. This project uses solar-powered GPS collars to obtain track data for sheep grazing. In order to eliminate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,427 Views
23 Pages

STRP-DBSCAN: A Parallel DBSCAN Algorithm Based on Spatial-Temporal Random Partitioning for Clustering Trajectory Data

  • Xiaoya An,
  • Ziming Wang,
  • Ding Wang,
  • Song Liu,
  • Cheng Jin,
  • Xinpeng Xu and
  • Jianjun Cao

10 October 2023

Trajectory clustering algorithms analyze the movement trajectory of the target objects to mine the potential movement trend, regularity, and behavioral patterns of the object. Therefore, the trajectory clustering algorithm has a wide range of applica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,220 Views
13 Pages

24 March 2020

Precise estimation of passenger spatial-temporal trajectory is the basis for urban rail transit (URT) passenger flow assignment and ticket fare clearing. Inspired by the correlation between passenger tap-in/out time and train schedules, we present a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,579 Views
15 Pages

10 June 2024

As autonomous driving technology advances, the imperative of ensuring pedestrian traffic safety becomes increasingly prominent within the design framework of autonomous driving systems. Pedestrian trajectory prediction stands out as a pivotal technol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
876 Views
26 Pages

8 November 2025

With the rapid expansion of the civil aviation industry, the surge in flight numbers has led to increasingly pronounced issues of air route congestion and flight conflicts. 4D trajectory prediction, by dynamically adjusting aircraft paths in real tim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,318 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2025

Accurately predicting the future trajectory of road users around autonomous vehicles is crucial for path planning and collision avoidance. In recent years, data-driven vehicle trajectory prediction models have become a significant research focus, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,294 Views
21 Pages

30 December 2015

Passive infrared (PIR) motion detectors, which can support long-term continuous observation, are widely used for human motion analysis. Extracting all possible trajectories from the PIR sensor networks is important. Because the PIR sensor does not lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,986 Views
14 Pages

In the realm of intelligent transportation systems, accurately predicting vehicle trajectories is paramount for enhancing road safety and optimizing traffic flow management. Addressing the impacts of complex traffic environments and efficiently model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,677 Views
27 Pages

Predicting the future trajectories of multiple interacting pedestrians within a scene has increasingly gained importance in various fields, e.g., autonomous driving, human–robot interaction, and so on. The complexity of this problem is heighten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,272 Views
17 Pages

16 December 2024

To avoid collisions and ensure driving safety, comfort, and efficiency, in this study, we propose a trajectory planning strategy for intelligent vehicles navigating curvy road scenarios. This strategy is based on a dynamic spatio-temporal corridor se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
396 Views
41 Pages

7 January 2026

Effective anomaly detection in vehicle trajectories is crucial for developing sustainable and safe urban transportation systems. However, current research faces three main challenges including scarce anomaly data, inadequate spatial feature extractio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Views
32 Pages

Data on various air-quality metrics are collected repeatedly by numerous monitoring stations worldwide to closely assess the severity of pollution. Particle pollution from fine particulate matter PM2.5 is one such measure used as an indicator of whet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,351 Views
16 Pages

24 December 2023

As a link connecting the environmental perception system and the decision-making system, accurate obstacle trajectory prediction provides a reliable guarantee of correct decision-making by autonomous vehicles. Oriented toward a mixed human-driven and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,836 Views
16 Pages

7 May 2021

Understanding intra-urban travel patterns is beneficial for urban planning and transportation management, among other fields. As an emerging travel mode, online car-hailing platforms provide massive and high-precision trajectory data, thus offering n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,814 Views
15 Pages

12 January 2024

In this study, the trajectory mapping domain-filling technology, which can provide more reliable statistical estimates of long-lived gas concentrations in a broader geographical area based on limited station data, is used to map the CO2 concentration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,284 Views
22 Pages

A Spatio-Temporal Entropy-based Framework for the Detection of Trajectories Similarity

  • Amin Hosseinpoor Milaghardan,
  • Rahim Ali Abbaspour and
  • Christophe Claramunt

23 June 2018

The rapid proliferation of sensors and big data repositories offer many new opportunities for data science. Among many application domains, the analysis of large trajectory datasets generated from people’s movements at the city scale is one of the mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,458 Views
27 Pages

28 November 2024

Accurate ship trajectory prediction is crucial for real-time vessel position tracking and maritime safety management. However, existing methods for ship trajectory prediction encounter significant challenges. They struggle to effectively extract long...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Views
23 Pages

12 March 2026

As the maritime industry transitions towards green shipping, operational sustainability and energy efficiency are increasingly crucial for long-endurance Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) missions. To this end, proactively adjusting driving strategies b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,759 Views
27 Pages

Spatial–Temporal Analysis of Vehicle Routing Problem from Online Car-Hailing Trajectories

  • Xuyu Feng,
  • Jianhua Yu,
  • Zihan Kan,
  • Lin Zhou,
  • Luliang Tang and
  • Xue Yang

With the advent of the information age and rapid population growth, the urban transportation environment is deteriorating. Travel-route planning is a key issue in modern sustainable transportation systems. When conducting route planning, identifying...

  • Article
  • Open Access
846 Views
22 Pages

This study aims to analyze long-term gait recovery patterns in sub-acute post-stroke hemiplegic patients by applying end-to-end deep learning (DL)-based clustering to sagittal joint-angle trajectories throughout the gait cycle. To address the data sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,398 Views
21 Pages

1 September 2024

Forest disturbance mapping plays an important role in furthering our understanding of forest dynamics. The Landsat-based detection of Trends in Disturbance and Recovery (LandTrendr) algorithm is widely used in forest disturbance mapping. However, it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,336 Views
16 Pages

The trajectory data of aircraft, ships, and so on, can be analyzed to obtain valuable information. Clustering is the basic technology of trajectory analysis, and the feature extraction process is one of the decisive factors for clustering performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,894 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Traffic Flow Reduction Method Based on Incomplete Vehicle History Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Data

  • Bowen Yang,
  • Zunhao Liu,
  • Zhi Cai,
  • Dongze Li,
  • Xing Su,
  • Limin Guo and
  • Zhiming Ding

In order to improve the effect of path planning in emergencies, the missing position imputation and velocity restoration in vehicle trajectory provide data support for emergency path planning and analysis. At present, there are many methods to fill i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,586 Views
19 Pages

26 January 2023

As an emerging type of spatio-temporal big data based on positioning technology and navigation devices, vehicle-based crowdsourcing data has become a valuable trajectory data resource. However, crowdsourcing trajectory data has been collected by non-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,072 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2022

Trajectory data represent an essential source of information on travel behaviors and human mobility patterns, assuming a central role in a wide range of services related to transportation planning, personalized recommendation strategies, and resource...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,184 Views
16 Pages

26 February 2019

Accurate identification of critical nodes and regions in a power grid is a precondition and guarantee for safety assessment and situational awareness. Existing methods have achieved effective static identification based on the inherent topological an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,850 Views
21 Pages

16 March 2025

The rapid development of vehicular networks has facilitated the extensive acquisition of vehicle trajectory data, which serve as a crucial cornerstone for a variety of intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications, such as traffic flow managem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,127 Views
28 Pages

Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Prediction and Conflict Alerting in Terminal Area

  • Yangyang Li,
  • Yong Tian,
  • Xiaoxuan Xie,
  • Bo Zhi and
  • Lili Wan

22 September 2025

Precise trajectory prediction in the airspace of a high-density terminal area (TMA) is crucial for Trajectory Based Operations (TBO), but frequent aircraft interactions and maneuvering behaviors can introduce significant uncertainties. Most existing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
960 Views
20 Pages

Spatial–Temporal Physics-Constrained Multilayer Perceptron for Aircraft Trajectory Prediction

  • Zhongnan Zhang,
  • Jianwei Zhang,
  • Yi Lin,
  • Kun Zhang,
  • Xuemei Zheng and
  • Dengmei Xiang

10 September 2025

Aircraft trajectory prediction (ATP) is a critical technology for air traffic control (ATC), safeguarding aviation safety and airspace resource management. To address the limitations of existing methods—kinetic models’ susceptibility to e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,750 Views
21 Pages

Vessel trajectory prediction is fundamental to maritime navigation, safety, and operational efficiency, particularly as the industry increasingly relies on digital solutions and real-time data analytics. This study addresses the challenge of forecast...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,765 Views
17 Pages

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease with one of the highest reported incidences in China. The detection of the spatio-temporal distribution characteristics of TB is indicative of its prevention and control conditions. Trajectory similarity ana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,292 Views
22 Pages

The presence of abundant spatio-temporal information based on the location of mobile objects in publicly accessible GPS mobile devices makes it crucial to collect, analyze, and mine such information. Therefore, it is necessary to index a large volume...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Views
23 Pages

To address the limitations of existing video anomaly detection methods that overly rely on pixel-space reconstruction and are sensitive to background noise and object scale variations, a self-supervised contrastive learning approach that integrates s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,911 Views
18 Pages

7 August 2025

Accurate prediction of pedestrian movements is vital for autonomous driving, smart transportation, and human–computer interactions. To effectively anticipate pedestrian behavior, it is crucial to consider the potential spatio-temporal interacti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
800 Views
29 Pages

MTP-STG: Spatio-Temporal Graph Transformer Networks for Multiple Future Trajectory Prediction in Crowds

  • Zichen Zhang,
  • Xingwen Cao,
  • Yi Song,
  • Wenjie Gong,
  • Liyu Zhang,
  • Yanzhen Zhang,
  • Yingxiang Li and
  • Haoran Zhang

8 December 2025

Predicting multiple future pedestrian trajectories is a challenging task for real-world applications like autonomous driving and robotic motion planning. Existing methods primarily focus on immediate spatial interactions among pedestrians, often over...

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