Quantifying the uncertainty of mobility flow predictions using Gaussian processes

Aike Steentoft, Bu-Sung Lee and Markus Schläpfer ()
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Aike Steentoft: Nanyang Technological University
Bu-Sung Lee: Nanyang Technological University
Markus Schläpfer: Nanyang Technological University

Transportation, 2024, vol. 51, issue 6, No 10, 2322 pages

Abstract: Abstract The ability to understand and predict the flows of people in cities is crucial for the planning of transportation systems and other urban infrastructures. Deep-learning approaches are powerful since they can capture non-linear relations between geographic features and the resulting mobility flow from a given origin location to a destination location. However, existing methods are not able to quantify the uncertainty of the predictions, which limits their interpretability and thus their use for practical applications in urban infrastructure planning. To that end, we propose a Bayesian deep-learning approach that formulates deep neural networks as Gaussian processes and integrates automatic variable selection. Our method provides uncertainty estimates for the predicted origin-destination flows while also allowing to identify the most important geographic features that drive the mobility patterns. The developed machine learning approach is applied to large-scale taxi trip data from New York City.

Keywords: Mobility; Bayesian deep learning; Smart cities; Transportation system planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C45 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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