Origin-Destination Demand Prediction: An Urban Radiation and Attraction Perspective

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel deep learning model for OD demand prediction that incorporates regions' intrinsic attributes and their radiation and attraction capacities, improving accuracy and interpretability.

Contribution

It extends physical region functions into a deep learning framework and models the relationships between different capacities and regions.

Findings

The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in OD demand prediction.

It demonstrates good explainability of regions' functions using nominal attributes.

Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of the approach.

Abstract

In recent years, origin-destination (OD) demand prediction has gained significant attention for its profound implications in urban development. Existing data-driven deep learning methods primarily focus on the spatial or temporal dependency between regions yet neglecting regions' fundamental functional difference. Though knowledge-driven physical methods have characterised regions' functions by their radiation and attraction capacities, these functions are defined on numerical factors like population without considering regions' intrinsic nominal attributes, e.g., a region is a residential or industrial district. Moreover, the complicated relationships between two types of capacities, e.g., the radiation capacity of a residential district in the morning will be transformed into the attraction capacity in the evening, are totally missing from physical methods. In this paper, we not only generalize the physical radiation and attraction capacities into the deep learning framework with the extended capability to fulfil regions' functions, but also present a new model that captures the relationships between two types of capacities. Specifically, we first model regions' radiation and attraction capacities using a bilateral branch network, each equipped with regions' attribute representations. We then describe the transformation relationship of different capacities of the same region using a hypergraph-based parameter generation method. We finally unveil the competition relationship of different regions with the same attraction capacity through cluster-based adversarial learning. Extensive experiments on two datasets demonstrate the consistent improvements of our method over the state-of-the-art baselines, as well as the good explainability of regions' functions using their nominal attributes.