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In recent years, both companies and researchers have been exploring intelligent data analysis to increase the profitability of the taxi industry. Intelligent systems for online taxi dispatching and time saving route finding have been built to do so. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology to produce online predictions regarding the spatial distribution of passenger demand throughout taxi stand networks. We have done so by assembling two well-known time series short-term forecast models: the time-varying Poisson models and ARIMA models. Our tests were performed using data gathered over a period of 6 months and collected from 63 taxi stands within the city of Porto, Portugal. Our results demonstrate that this model is a true major contribution to the driver mobility intelligence: 78% of the 253745 demanded taxi services were correctly forecasted in a 30 minutes horizon.
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Moreira-Matias, L., Gama, J., Ferreira, M., Mendes-Moreira, J., Damas, L. (2012). Online Predictive Model for Taxi Services. In: Hollmén, J., Klawonn, F., Tucker, A. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XI. IDA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7619. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34156-4_22
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