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Central station based demand prediction in a bike sharing system

  • Xidian University

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Abstract

Predicting the bike demand can help rebalance the bikes and improve the service quality of a bike sharing system. A lot of work focuses on predicting the bike demand for all the stations. It is not necessary because the travel cost of rebalance operations increases sharply as the number of stations increases. In this paper, we take more attention to those stations with higher bike demand, which are called 'central stations' in the following narrative. We propose a framework to predict the hourly bike demand based on the central stations we define. Firstly, we propose a novel clustering algorithm to assign different types of stations into each cluster. Secondly, we propose a hierarchical prediction model to predict the hourly bike demand for every cluster and each central station progressively. The experimental results on the NYC Citi Bike system show the advantages of our approach to these problems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 20th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages346-348
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781728133638
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2019
Event20th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2019 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Duration: 10 Jun 201913 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management
Volume2019-June
ISSN (Print)1551-6245

Conference

Conference20th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2019
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityHong Kong
Period10/06/1913/06/19

Keywords

  • Bike sharing system
  • Clustering
  • Demand prediction

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