Deep hybrid model with satellite imagery: How to combine demand modeling and computer vision for travel behavior analysis?

Qingyi Wang, Shenhao Wang, Yunhan Zheng, Hongzhou Lin, Xiaohu Zhang, Jinhua Zhao and Joan Walker

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2024, vol. 179, issue C

Abstract: Classical demand modeling analyzes travel behavior using only low-dimensional numeric data (i.e. sociodemographics and travel attributes) but not high-dimensional urban imagery. However, travel behavior depends on the factors represented by both numeric data and urban imagery, thus necessitating a synergetic framework to combine them. This study creates a theoretical framework of deep hybrid models consisting of a mixing operator and a behavioral predictor, thus integrating the numeric and imagery data for travel behavior analysis. Empirically, this framework is applied to analyze travel mode choice using the Chicago MyDailyTravel Survey as the numeric inputs and the satellite images as the imagery inputs. We found that deep hybrid models significantly outperform both classical demand models and deep learning models in predicting aggregate and disaggregate travel behavior. The deep hybrid models can reveal spatial clusters with meaningful sociodemographic associations in the latent space. The models can also generate new satellite images that do not exist in reality and compute the corresponding economic information, such as substitution patterns and social welfare. Overall, the deep hybrid models demonstrate the complementarity between the low-dimensional numeric and high-dimensional imagery data and between the traditional demand modeling and recent deep learning. They enrich the family of hybrid demand models by using deep architecture as the latent space and enabling researchers to conduct associative analysis for sociodemographics, travel decisions, and generated satellite imagery. Future research could address the limitations in interpretability, robustness, and transferability, and propose new methods to further enrich the deep hybrid models.

Keywords: Demand modeling; Deep learning; Satellite imagery; Travel mode choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2023.102869

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