An intelligent and interactive route planning maker for deploying new transportation services

In this work, we propose a novel system, called Route Planning Maker (RPM) to help the government or transportation companies to design new route services in the city. The RPM system has a flexible user interface that allows users design the nearby areas of a new route and further deploying new stations. Moreover, based on user-designed arbitrary transportation routes and the expected locations of stations, the RPM system provides an intelligent function to infer passenger flows in certain time intervals so that the user can estimate the effectiveness of designed routes. To capture the spatial-temporal factors correlated with passenger flows, we propose to combine dynamic features such as human mobility, passenger volume of existing routes, and static features, including road network structure, point-of-interests (POI), station placement of existing routes and local population structure. Finally, to combine these features, we modified Deep Neural Network (DNN) for regression to derive the passenger flow for each given designated route. The experiments on the Tainan's bus-ticket data outperform baseline methods for 75%.