Recurrent Flow Networks: A Recurrent Latent Variable Model for Density Modelling of Urban Mobility. (arXiv:2006.05256v2 [stat.ML] UPDATED)

Mobility-on-demand (MoD) systems represent a rapidly developing mode of
transportation wherein travel requests are dynamically handled by a coordinated
fleet of vehicles. Crucially, the efficiency of an MoD system highly depends on
how well supply and demand distributions are aligned in spatio-temporal space
(i.e., to satisfy user demand, cars have to be available in the correct place
and at the desired time). To do so, we argue that predictive models should aim
to explicitly disentangle between temporal} and spatial variability …

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