Abstract: Floating car map-matching algorithm enables fast and accurate matching between the discrete points of floating car and the road segments. It is the core part of floating car traffic information generation technology. For the deficiencies of the prior method, an efficient logical matching method is proposed and implemented. Firstly it establishes buffer zones with effective threshold for the anchor points, and then searches the road segments that intersect with the buffer zones. After that, it discriminates the driving track by four parameters(driving speed, driving direction, projection distance and driving distance). The experiments show that this method does not require extensive work to deal with road network data. It simplifies the process of searching candidate matching road segments and ensures matching accuracy while also shows a higher efficiency.

Key words: road network matching, floating car data, traffic information, road segments