Enhancing Expressiveness of Models for Static Route-Free Estimation of Time of Arrival in Urban Environments

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)432-441
Seitenumfang10
FachzeitschriftTransportation Research Procedia
Jahrgang62
Frühes Online-Datum11 März 2022
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2022
Veranstaltung24th Euro Working Group on Transportation Meeting, EWGT 2021 - Aveiro, Portugal
Dauer: 8 Sept. 202110 Sept. 2021

Abstract

Scheduling of taxis can reduce cost and potentially decreases CO2emissions. However, with a rising number of taxis or travel requests, the time for computing schedules increases. A promising alternative is to estimate trip durations based on historical trip data without calculating routes. Based on an analysis of the state of the art, in this paper we identify and investigate two limitations of route-free Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) models: First, the overall set of features considered by state of-the-art models is limited. For instance, some potential relevant features (such as weather-related ones) are not considered at all. Also, different models use different sets of features, such as the linear distance between pickup and dropoff location, in diverse and partly inconsistent ways. For those features generally considered, we find different representations, e.g., for trip start time. Second, while discretization of degree-based coordinates for pickup/dropoff locations via spatial binning is very common in state-of-the-art ETA models, the chosen grid cell sizes vary widely and apparently arbitrarily. The contribution of this paper is threefold: First, we propose to enhance route-free ETA models by additional features and investigate the influence of the feature representation on the prediction precision based on a benchmark dataset. Second, we compare different grid cell topologies and sizes as regards their effect on the prediction precision of ETA. Third, we construct and evaluate three types of Machine Learning (ML) models. Our findings indicate that the results outperform state-of-the-art static route-free ETA estimation models.

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Enhancing Expressiveness of Models for Static Route-Free Estimation of Time of Arrival in Urban Environments. / Schleibaum, Sören; Müller, Jörg P.; Sester, Monika.
in: Transportation Research Procedia, Jahrgang 62, 2022, S. 432-441.

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftKonferenzaufsatz in FachzeitschriftForschungPeer-Review

Schleibaum S, Müller JP, Sester M. Enhancing Expressiveness of Models for Static Route-Free Estimation of Time of Arrival in Urban Environments. Transportation Research Procedia. 2022;62:432-441. Epub 2022 Mär 11. doi: 10.1016/j.trpro.2022.02.054
Schleibaum, Sören ; Müller, Jörg P. ; Sester, Monika. / Enhancing Expressiveness of Models for Static Route-Free Estimation of Time of Arrival in Urban Environments. in: Transportation Research Procedia. 2022 ; Jahrgang 62. S. 432-441.
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