Predicting Taxi–Passenger Demand Using Streaming Data

Informed driving is increasingly becoming a key feature for increasing the sustainability of taxi companies. The sensors that are installed in each vehicle are providing new opportunities for automatically discovering knowledge, which, in return, delivers information for real-time decision making. Intelligent transportation systems for taxi dispatching and for finding time-saving routes are already exploring these sensing data. This paper introduces a novel methodology for predicting the spatial distribution of taxi-passengers for a short-term time horizon using streaming data. First, the information was aggregated into a histogram time series. Then, three time-series forecasting techniques were combined to…

• UD
  Universidade do Porto
• FP
  Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

  Awards: PTDC/EIA-EIA/098355/2008, COMPETE, FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022701, 01-0124-FEDER-022701, FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER
• ER
  European Regional Development Fund

  Award: COMPETE