this repository contains the main project of Rahnema College's machine learning boot camp. The purpose of this project is to predict the demand of 263 zones of NYC in the future (for any time interval). As part of this plan, the team seeks to identify areas with higher travel demand to increase the number of available drivers in those locations. Incentivizing drivers is a marketing initiative, and predicting demand during different time frames is crucial for implementing this process.
To understand the general idea check our presentation
TLC NYC dataset contains trip data about 12,672,737 trips which are made between 263 different zones in NYC. The trip records include fields capturing pick-up and drop-off dates/times, pick-up and drop-off locations, trip distances, itemized fares, rate types, payment types, and driver-reported passenger counts. The pick-up and drop-off contains the date and time for each trip respectively which are about trips made between 2023/1/1 to 2023/4/30 and the times follow the HH:MM:SS format.
We created a demand dataset based on this definition for each timestamp and LocationID:
We added these features to the demand dataset:
| Features | Extra info |
|---|---|
| Weather | temperature and icon from weather API |
| Cyclical time | daily and weekly |
| Rolling window feature | rolling std and rolling mean |
| Demand lags | daily and weekly lags |
| PULocationID | target encoding |
| Borough | |
| Week day |
We transformed multiple multivariate time series problems into a supervised learning problem. So we can use XGBoost.
We used simple deep learning with dense layers and we got the best result:
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/RozhanMk/Taxi-demand-prediction
cd Taxi-demand-prediction
Before you run this API, you must get your API key from https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather/weather-data-services and put it in weather API file.
- Run Django:
cd Deploy
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 manage.py runserver
- Arman Salahshour
- Paniz Baratnejad
- Anahita Kia
- Javad Maddah
- Rozhan Mirzaei