Taxihailer: A situation-specific taxi pick-up points recommendation system

Leyi Song, Chengyu Wang, Xiaoyi Duan, Bing Xiao, Xiao Liu, Rong Zhang, Xiaofeng He, Xueqing Gong

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Abstract

This demonstration presents TaxiHailer, a situation-specific recommendation system for passengers who are eager to find a taxi. Given a query with departure point, destination and time, it recommends pick-up points within a specified distance and ranked by potential waiting time. Unlike existing works, we consider three sets of features to build regression models, as well as Poisson process models for road segment clusters. We evaluate and choose the most proper models for each cluster under different situations. Also, TaxiHailer gives destination-aware recommendations for pick-up points with driving directions. We evaluate our recommendation results based on real GPS datasets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDatabase Systems for Advanced Applications - 19th International Conference, DASFAA 2014, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages523-526
Number of pages4
EditionPART 2
ISBN (Print)9783319058122
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2014 - Bali, Indonesia
Duration: 21 Apr 201424 Apr 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume8422 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2014
Country/TerritoryIndonesia
CityBali
Period21/04/1424/04/14

Keywords

  • Location-based service
  • recommendation system
  • taxi

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