An Embarrassingly Simple Rule-based Visiting Circulation Approach to Trip Destination Prediction

Eng Shen Tu, Yong Han Chen, En Chao Liu, Hao Yun Keng, Cheng Te Li

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose the Rule-based Visiting Circulation (RVC) model in tackling the challenge in the IEEE Big Data Cup 2022: Trip Destination Prediction. Given trips containing travel information, personal attributes, origin zones, and their features in the training metropolitan areas, the task is to predict the destination of every trip in a targeted metropolitan area whose destinations are not given at all at the training stage. We highlight the challenges in this destination prediction task - having no knowledge of the destinations in the targeted metropolitan area. We provide insights from the datasets, in which revisiting behaviors and the relationships between origins and destinations play a crucial role in individuals' trips. Hence, we design a simple but comprehensive method, rule-based visiting circulation, which directly utilizes the origin information and individuals' trip behaviors to determine the destinations in the targeted metropolitan area, i.e., requiring no learning from the four training areas. Experimental results on both offline evaluation and leaderboard submission consistently exhibit the proposed RVC can significantly outperform supervised learning methods and other heuristics. The RVC method eventually brings us to second place in the competition leaderboard.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2022
EditorsShusaku Tsumoto, Yukio Ohsawa, Lei Chen, Dirk Van den Poel, Xiaohua Hu, Yoichi Motomura, Takuya Takagi, Lingfei Wu, Ying Xie, Akihiro Abe, Vijay Raghavan
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages6565-6572
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781665480451
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2022 - Osaka, Japan
Duration: 2022 Dec 172022 Dec 20

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2022

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2022
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityOsaka
Period22-12-1722-12-20

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Control and Optimization

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