A Dual-Flow Attentive Network with Feature Crossing for Chained Trip
Purpose Inference
Abstract
Trip purpose is essential information supporting tasks in intelligent
transportation systems, such as travel behaviour comprehension,
location-based service, and urban planning. The observation of trip
purpose is a necessary aspect of travel surveys. However, owing to the
sampling volume, survey budget, and survey frequency, relying solely on
travel surveys in the era of big data is a difficult task. There has
long been a demand for an accurate, generalizable, and robust inference
method for trip purposes. Although existing studies contributed
significant efforts to improve the trip purpose inference, the potential
of leveraging the trip chain is insufficient. The spatial correlations
and chaining patterns hidden in travelled zones are worthy of further
exploration. The unequal importance within trip chains has not been
clearly represented. Additionally, complex activity-zone mutual
interdependence has not been considered in previous models. Herein, we
propose a framework- Dual-Flow Attentive Network with Feature Crossing
(DACross), specifically for inferring the chained trip purpose. We form
trip chains innovatively that treat trip activities and travelled
geographic zones as two chains with mutual interactions. We propose
DACross, which consists of two parallel attentive branches and a
co-attentive feature crossing module, for fully learning the intra- and
inter-chain dependencies. We conducted extensive experiments on four
large-scale real-world datasets to evaluate not only the performance of
DACross but also the generalizability of the proposed framework among
different cities and scenarios. Notably, the Experimental results prove
the overall superiority of the proposed DACross.