Independent Map Enhancement for a Spatial Road Network: Fundamental Applications and Opportunities
In many developing cities, the improvement of transport infrastructure is usually accompanied by major road construction and maintenance. This paper presents approaches and opportunities using peer-to-peer updating to improve spatial road networks undergoing construction and maintenance, which in tu...
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| description | In many developing cities, the improvement of transport infrastructure is usually accompanied by major road construction and maintenance. This paper presents approaches and opportunities using peer-to-peer updating to improve spatial road networks undergoing construction and maintenance, which in turn will improve traffic flow and benefit cities overall. In many cities, the spatial road network requires maintenance, and these works often require traffic detours. With the current GPS (Global Positioning System) services, there is a noticeable delay in the updating of many spatial road networks. Thus, when a driver plans a trip to a certain location (such as Starbucks), his/her usual route may have changed, but the spatial road network in the GPS has not been updated. This can affect the user in many ways. For example, a trip that usually takes five minutes might now take half an hour, taking into account the additional time required to find alternative roads and possibly encountering more unexpected road closures, until the driver reaches his/her destination. This paper addresses this issue by proposing solutions that offer several advantages including a new peer-to-peer updating mechanism that helps to direct the driver to another route when road changes occur. Moreover, the peer-to-peer updating mechanism can enable the independent monitoring of road conditions and the updating of maps for newly-constructed roads, as well as the analysis of road congestions, traffic density, and people movements at certain times. Note that this work focuses on the conceptual ideas and approaches intended to improve independent maps, and the detailed algorithms have been left for future work. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a353de8e75244316a789af72a11e8d852023-11-21T02:45:00ZengMDPI AGISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information2220-99642020-12-01101810.3390/ijgi10010008Independent Map Enhancement for a Spatial Road Network: Fundamental Applications and OpportunitiesSultan Alamri0College of Computing and Informatics, Saudi Electronic University, Riyadh 13316, Saudi ArabiaIn many developing cities, the improvement of transport infrastructure is usually accompanied by major road construction and maintenance. This paper presents approaches and opportunities using peer-to-peer updating to improve spatial road networks undergoing construction and maintenance, which in turn will improve traffic flow and benefit cities overall. In many cities, the spatial road network requires maintenance, and these works often require traffic detours. With the current GPS (Global Positioning System) services, there is a noticeable delay in the updating of many spatial road networks. Thus, when a driver plans a trip to a certain location (such as Starbucks), his/her usual route may have changed, but the spatial road network in the GPS has not been updated. This can affect the user in many ways. For example, a trip that usually takes five minutes might now take half an hour, taking into account the additional time required to find alternative roads and possibly encountering more unexpected road closures, until the driver reaches his/her destination. This paper addresses this issue by proposing solutions that offer several advantages including a new peer-to-peer updating mechanism that helps to direct the driver to another route when road changes occur. Moreover, the peer-to-peer updating mechanism can enable the independent monitoring of road conditions and the updating of maps for newly-constructed roads, as well as the analysis of road congestions, traffic density, and people movements at certain times. Note that this work focuses on the conceptual ideas and approaches intended to improve independent maps, and the detailed algorithms have been left for future work.https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/1/8smart citiesspatial road networkmap enhancementGIS |
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| title | Independent Map Enhancement for a Spatial Road Network: Fundamental Applications and Opportunities |
| title_full | Independent Map Enhancement for a Spatial Road Network: Fundamental Applications and Opportunities |
| title_fullStr | Independent Map Enhancement for a Spatial Road Network: Fundamental Applications and Opportunities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Independent Map Enhancement for a Spatial Road Network: Fundamental Applications and Opportunities |
| title_short | Independent Map Enhancement for a Spatial Road Network: Fundamental Applications and Opportunities |
| title_sort | independent map enhancement for a spatial road network fundamental applications and opportunities |
| topic | smart cities spatial road network map enhancement GIS |
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