학술논문

Modeling Censored Mobility Demand Through Censored Quantile Regression Neural Networks
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems IEEE Trans. Intell. Transport. Syst. Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on. 23(11):21753-21765 Nov, 2022
Subject
Transportation
Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computational modeling
Data models
Biological neural networks
Uncertainty
Computer architecture
Censorship
Bayes methods
Censored quantile regression
deep learning
demand modeling
latent mobility demand
multi-task learning
Bayesian modeling
Language
ISSN
1524-9050
1558-0016
Abstract
Shared mobility services require accurate demand models for effective service planning. On the one hand, modeling the full probability distribution of demand is advantageous because the entire uncertainty structure preserves valuable information for decision-making. On the other hand, demand is often observed through the usage of the service itself, so that the observations are censored, as they are inherently limited by available supply. Since the 1980s, various works on Censored Quantile Regression models have performed well under such conditions. Further, in the last two decades, several papers have proposed to implement these models flexibly through Neural Networks. However, the models in current works estimate the quantiles individually, thus incurring a computational overhead and ignoring valuable relationships between the quantiles. We address this gap by extending current Censored Quantile Regression models to learn multiple quantiles at once and apply these to synthetic baseline datasets and datasets from two shared mobility providers in the Copenhagen metropolitan area in Denmark. The results show that our extended models yield fewer quantile crossings and less computational overhead without compromising model performance.