Planning an itinerary before traveling to a city is one of the most important travel preparation
activities. In this paper, we propose a novel framework called TripPlanner, leveraging a …

Identifying a preferable route is an important problem that finds applications in map services.
When a user plans a trip within a city, the user may want to find" a most popular route such …

Planning an itinerary when traveling to a city involves substantial effort in choosing Points-of-
Interest (POIs), deciding in which order to visit them, and accounting for the time it takes to …

We investigate the problem of optimal route planning for massive-scale trips: Given a traffic-
aware road network and a set of trip queries Q, we aim to find a route for each trip such that …

Creating an efficient and economic trip plan is the most annoying job for a backpack traveler.
Although travel agency can provide some predefined itineraries, they are not tailored for …

The preferences of users are important in route search and planning. Users may also weight
their preferences differently. For example, when a user plans a trip within a city, their …

With the advances in geo-positioning technologies and location-based services, it is
nowadays quite common for road networks to have textual contents on the vertices. Previous …

Route search and planning have been playing an important role in spatial data
management and location-based social services. In this light, we conduct a survey on …

Real-time ride-sharing applications (eg, Uber and Lyft) are very popular in recent years.
Motivated by the ride-sharing application, we propose a new type of query in road networks …

We study Sequenced Group Trip Planning Queries (SGTPQs). Consider a road network
where some vertices represent Points of interest (POIs) and each POI belongs to exactly one …