We enhance the mobile sequential recommendation (MSR) model and address some critical issues in existing formulations by proposing three new forms of the MSR from a multi-user perspective. The multi-user MSR (MMSR) model searches optimal routes for multiple drivers at different locations while disallowing overlapping routes to be recommended. To enrich the properties of pick-up points in the problem formulation, we additionally consider the pick-up capacity as an important feature, leading to the following two modified forms of the MMSR: MMSR-m and MMSR-d. The MMSR-m sets a maximum pick-up capacity for all urban areas, while the MMSR-d allows the pick-up capacity to vary at different locations. We develop a parallel framework based on the simulated annealing to numerically solve the MMSR problem series. Also, a push-point method is introduced to improve our algorithms further for the MMSR-m and the MMSR-d, which can handle the route optimization in more practical ways. Our results on both real-world and synthetic data confirmed the superiority of our problem formulation and solutions under more demanding practical scenarios over several published benchmarks. 
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                            Multi-Purpose, Multi-Step Deep Learning Framework for Network-Level Traffic Flow Prediction
                        
                    
    
            This study proposes a data fusion and deep learning (DL) framework that learns high-level traffic features from network-level images to predict large-scale, multi-route, speed and volume of connected vehicles (CVs). We present a scalable and parallel method of processing statewide CVs’ trajectory data that leads to real-time insights on the micro-scale in time and space (two-dimensional (2D) arrays) on graphics processing unit (GPUs) using the Nvidia rapids framework and dask parallel cluster, which provided a 50× speed-up in the data extraction, transform and load (ETL). A UNet model is then applied to perform feature extraction and multi-route speed and volume channels over a multi-step prediction horizon. The accuracy and robustness of the proposed model are evaluated by taking different road types, times of day and image snippets and comparing the model to benchmarks: Convolutional Long–Short-Term Memory (ConvLSTM) and a historical average (HA). The results show that the proposed model outperforms benchmarks with an average improvement of 15% over ConvLSTM and 65% over the HA. Comparing the image snippets from each prediction model to the actual image shows that image textures were highly similar in UNet to the benchmark models used. UNet’s dominance in performing image predictions was also evident in multi-step forecasting, where the increase in errors was relatively minimal over longer prediction horizons. 
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                            - Award ID(s):
- 2045786
- PAR ID:
- 10405737
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Advances in Data Science and Adaptive Analysis
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 03n04
- ISSN:
- 2424-922X
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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