474 research outputs found
D3P : Data-driven demand prediction for fast expanding electric vehicle sharing systems
The future of urban mobility is expected to be shared and electric. It is not only a more sustainable paradigm that can reduce emissions, but can also bring societal benefits by offering a more affordable on-demand mobility option to the general public. Many car sharing service providers as well as automobile manufacturers are entering the competition by expanding both their EV fleets and renting/returning station networks, aiming to seize a share of the market and to bring car sharing to the zero emissions level. During their fast expansion, one determinant for success is the ability of predicting the demand of stations as the entire system is growing continuously. There are several challenges in this demand prediction problem: First, unlike most of the existing work which predicts demand only for static systems or at few stages of expansion, in the real world we often need to predict the demand as or even before stations are being deployed or closed, to provide information and decision support. Second, for the new stations to be deployed, there is no historical data available to help the prediction of their demand. Finally, the impact of deploying/closing stations on the other stations in the system can be complex. To address these challenges, we formulate the demand prediction problem in the context of fast expanding electric vehicle sharing systems, and propose a data-driven demand prediction approach which aims to model the expansion dynamics directly from the data. We use a local temporal encoding process to handle the historical data for each existing station, and a dynamic spatial encoding process to take correlations between stations into account with Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCN). The encoded features are fed to a multi-scale predictor, which forecasts both the long-term expected demand of the stations and their instant demand in the near future. We evaluate the proposed approach with real-world data collected from a major EV sharing platform for one year. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms the state of the art, showing up to three-fold performance gain in predicting demand for the expanding EV sharing systems
Battery Maintenance of Pedelec Sharing System: Big Data Based Usage Prediction and Replenishment Scheduling
Pedelecs are an alternative of traditional share bikes by applying the battery-powered motor to assist pedaling and accordingly extend the riding coverage. The large scale deployment of pedelecs, however, requires a careful design of maintenance system to replace the batteries regularly that can be costly. This paper investigates the maintenance of a city-wide pedelec system by developing an offline solution in two steps. First, we develop an optimal and efficient hybrid prediction model which predicts the usage demand of pedelecs in every 48 h on a scale of millions of pedelecs. Our proposal predicts the future usage increment of pedelecs by combining a local predictor, a global predictor, and an inflection predictor, which captures both the short-term and long-term factors affecting the pedelec usage. Second, based on the developed predictor and results of big data analytics, an optimal path planning scheme for the replenishment of pedelec batteries is developed. As compared to other schemes, our scheme can save 40% of the maintenance cost. To verify our proposal, extensive real-data driven simulations are performed which show that the accuracy of the prediction process is high enough than each traditional method and our proposal solves the maintenance problem efficiently
An Interpretable Machine Learning Framework to Understand Bikeshare Demand before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City
In recent years, bikesharing systems have become increasingly popular as
affordable and sustainable micromobility solutions. Advanced mathematical
models such as machine learning are required to generate good forecasts for
bikeshare demand. To this end, this study proposes a machine learning modeling
framework to estimate hourly demand in a large-scale bikesharing system. Two
Extreme Gradient Boosting models were developed: one using data from before the
COVID-19 pandemic (March 2019 to February 2020) and the other using data from
during the pandemic (March 2020 to February 2021). Furthermore, a model
interpretation framework based on SHapley Additive exPlanations was
implemented. Based on the relative importance of the explanatory variables
considered in this study, share of female users and hour of day were the two
most important explanatory variables in both models. However, the month
variable had higher importance in the pandemic model than in the pre-pandemic
model
Modeling Heterogeneous Relations across Multiple Modes for Potential Crowd Flow Prediction
Potential crowd flow prediction for new planned transportation sites is a
fundamental task for urban planners and administrators. Intuitively, the
potential crowd flow of the new coming site can be implied by exploring the
nearby sites. However, the transportation modes of nearby sites (e.g. bus
stations, bicycle stations) might be different from the target site (e.g.
subway station), which results in severe data scarcity issues. To this end, we
propose a data driven approach, named MOHER, to predict the potential crowd
flow in a certain mode for a new planned site. Specifically, we first identify
the neighbor regions of the target site by examining the geographical proximity
as well as the urban function similarity. Then, to aggregate these
heterogeneous relations, we devise a cross-mode relational GCN, a novel
relation-specific transformation model, which can learn not only the
correlations but also the differences between different transportation modes.
Afterward, we design an aggregator for inductive potential flow representation.
Finally, an LTSM module is used for sequential flow prediction. Extensive
experiments on real-world data sets demonstrate the superiority of the MOHER
framework compared with the state-of-the-art algorithms.Comment: Accepted by the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI
2021
A systematic literature review
Albuquerque, V., Dias, M. S., & Bacao, F. (2021). Machine learning approaches to bike-sharing systems: A systematic literature review. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 10(2), 1-25. [62]. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10020062Cities are moving towards new mobility strategies to tackle smart cities’ challenges such as carbon emission reduction, urban transport multimodality and mitigation of pandemic hazards, emphasising on the implementation of shared modes, such as bike-sharing systems. This paper poses a research question and introduces a corresponding systematic literature review, focusing on machine learning techniques’ contributions applied to bike-sharing systems to improve cities’ mobility. The preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) method was adopted to identify specific factors that influence bike-sharing systems, resulting in an analysis of 35 papers published between 2015 and 2019, creating an outline for future research. By means of systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis, machine learning algorithms were identified in two groups: classification and prediction.publishersversionpublishe
Recent Advances in Graph-based Machine Learning for Applications in Smart Urban Transportation Systems
The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is an important part of modern
transportation infrastructure, employing a combination of communication
technology, information processing and control systems to manage transportation
networks. This integration of various components such as roads, vehicles, and
communication systems, is expected to improve efficiency and safety by
providing better information, services, and coordination of transportation
modes. In recent years, graph-based machine learning has become an increasingly
important research focus in the field of ITS aiming at the development of
complex, data-driven solutions to address various ITS-related challenges. This
chapter presents background information on the key technical challenges for ITS
design, along with a review of research methods ranging from classic
statistical approaches to modern machine learning and deep learning-based
approaches. Specifically, we provide an in-depth review of graph-based machine
learning methods, including basic concepts of graphs, graph data
representation, graph neural network architectures and their relation to ITS
applications. Additionally, two case studies of graph-based ITS applications
proposed in our recent work are presented in detail to demonstrate the
potential of graph-based machine learning in the ITS domain
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