With the advent of ubiquitous computing, we can easily collect large scale trajectory data from moving vehicles. This paper presents TPM (Trajectory Pattern Miner), a software aimed at pattern matching queries for road-network trajectory data, which complements existing efforts focusing on (a) a spatio-temporal window query for location-based service or (b) Euclidean space with no restriction. To overcome limitations of prior research, TPM supports three types of pattern matching queries-- whole, subpattern, and reverse sub-pattern matching for road-network trajectories. We demonstrate application scenarios for each type of pattern matching queries using large-scale real-life trajectory data.

With the advent of ubiquitous computing, we can easily collect large-scale trajectory data, say, from moving vehicles. This paper studies pattern-matching problems for trajectory data over road networks, which complements existing efforts focusing on (1) a spatiotemporal window query for location-based service or (2) euclidean space with no restriction. In contrast, we first identify some desirable properties for pattern-matching queries to the road network trajectories. As the existing work does not fully satisfy these properties, we develop (1) trajectory representation and (2) distance metric that satisfy all the desirable properties we identified. Based on this representation and metric, we develop efficient algorithms for three types of pattern-matching queries-whole, subpattern, and reverse subpattern matching. We analytically validate the correctness of our algorithms and also empirically validate their scalability over large-scale, real-life, and synthetic trajectory data sets.