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Excess demand prediction for bike sharing systems

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PLOS ONE
卷 16, 期 6, 页码 -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252894

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  1. NSF CPS [1739413]
  2. National Science Foundation [1739413]
  3. Division Of Computer and Network Systems
  4. Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1739413] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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The key to the long-term success of shared transportation systems is their availability and rebalancing. This study proposes a method to estimate excess demand and supply rates, and experiments validate its accuracy.
One of the most crucial elements for the long-term success of shared transportation systems (bikes, cars etc.) is their ubiquitous availability. To achieve this, and avoid having stations with no available vehicle, service operators rely on rebalancing. While different operators have different approaches to this functionality, overall it requires a demand-supply analysis of the various stations. While trip data can be used for this task, the existing methods in the literature only capture the observed demand and supply rates. However, the excess demand rates (e.g., how many customers attempted to rent a bike from an empty station) are not recorded in these data, but they are important for the in-depth understanding of the systems' demand patterns that ultimately can inform operations like rebalancing. In this work we propose a method to estimate the excess demand and supply rates from trip and station availability data. Key to our approach is identifying what we term as excess demand pulse (EDP) in availability data as a signal for the existence of excess demand. We then proceed to build a Skellam regression model that is able to predict the difference between the total demand and supply at a given station during a specific time period. Our experiments with real data further validate the accuracy of our proposed method.

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