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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.51

Need A Boost? A Comparison of Traditional Commuting Models with the XGBoost Model for Predicting Commuting Flows (Short Paper)

Authors: April Morton, Jesse Piburn, and Nicholas Nagle

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 114, 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018)

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Commuting models estimate the number of commuting trips from home to work locations in a given area. Since their infancy, they have been increasingly used in a variety of fields to reduce traffic and pollution, drive infrastructure choices, and solve a variety of other problems. Traditional commuting models, such as gravity and radiation models, typically have a strict structural form and limited number of input variables, which may limit their ability to predict commuting flows as well as machine learning models that might better capture the complex dynamics of the commuting process. To determine whether machine learning models might add value to the field of commuter flow prediction, we compare and discuss the performance of two standard traditional models with the XGBoost machine learning algorithm for predicting home to work commuter flows from a well-known United States commuting dataset. We find that the XGBoost model outperforms the traditional models on three commonly used metrics, indicating that machine learning models may add value to the field of commuter flow prediction.

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April Morton, Jesse Piburn, and Nicholas Nagle. Need A Boost? A Comparison of Traditional Commuting Models with the XGBoost Model for Predicting Commuting Flows (Short Paper). In 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 114, pp. 51:1-51:7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{morton_et_al:LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.51,
  author =	{Morton, April and Piburn, Jesse and Nagle, Nicholas},
  title =	{{Need A Boost? A Comparison of Traditional Commuting Models with the XGBoost Model for Predicting Commuting Flows}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018)},
  pages =	{51:1--51:7},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-083-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{114},
  editor =	{Winter, Stephan and Griffin, Amy and Sester, Monika},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.51},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-93793},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.51},
  annote =	{Keywords: Machine learning, commuting modeling}
}

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