Infrastructures for Research on Multimodal Moving Objects

Moving objects with multiple transportation modes (e.g., Car, Bus, Walk) can be represented by the reference method where the location is mapped to infrastructure objects, e.g., roads, buses, pavements. A scalable dataset is required to evaluate the performance of a database system managing these moving objects. To produce multimodal moving objects, infrastructure objects are essentially needed. Due to the major challenge of gaining real datasets, in this demonstration we propose a method create these infrastructure objects for different environments including pavement areas, bus network and indoor just from a given road network and some floor plans. An indoor viewer is also implemented in a database system for visualizing 3D indoor moving objects and trajectories. The work is to be used for evaluating the performance of a database system managing generic moving objects.