Prediction on Demand for Regional Online Car-Hailing Travel Based on Self-Attention Memory and ConvLSTM

Jianqi Li, Wenbao Zeng, Weiqi Liu and Rongjun Cheng ()
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Jianqi Li: Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
Wenbao Zeng: Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
Weiqi Liu: Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
Rongjun Cheng: Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 13, 1-18

Abstract: High precision in forecasting travel demand for online car-hailing is crucial for traffic management to schedule vehicles, hence reducing energy consumption and achieving sustainable development. Netflix demand forecasting relies on the capture of spatiotemporal correlations. To extract the spatiotemporal information more fully, this study designs and develops a novel spatiotemporal prediction model with multidimensional inputs (MSACL) by embedding a self-attention memory (SAM) module into a convolutional long short-term memory neural network (ConvLSTM). The SAM module can extract features with long-range spatiotemporal dependencies. The experimental data are derived from the Chengdu City online car-hailing trajectory data set and the external factors data set. Comparative experiments demonstrate that the proposed model has higher accuracy. The proposed model outperforms the Sa-ConvLSTM model and has the highest prediction accuracy, shows a reduction in the mean absolute error (MAE) by 1.72, a reduction in the mean squared error (MSE) by 0.43, and an increase in the R-squared (R 2 ) by 4%. In addition, ablation experiments illustrate the effectiveness of each component, where the external factor inputs have the least impact on the model accuracy, but the removal of the SAM module results in the most significant decrease in model accuracy.

Keywords: online car-hailing; spatiotemporal forecasting; travel demand; self-attention memory mechanism; ConvLSTM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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