Link travel time estimation based on large-scale low-frequency floating car data

With advances in information technologies, floating car data (FCD) (e.g. trajectories of taxis) becomes an important data source for collecting traffic information in urban road networks. Due to the low sampling frequency of FCD, it is a challenge to obtain accurate and reliable travel time estimation based on FCD. This paper presents a location-speed method for accurately estimating travel times in signalized road networks based on FCD. The proposed model utilizes trajectories of probe vehicles on the upstream and downstream of signalized intersections in order to estimate delays caused by traffic signals. A large-scale case study using real-world FCD in Wuhan is carried to validate the proposed method. The results of case study show that the proposed method can obtain satisfied estimation of travel times in signalized road networks.