An Attention-Based Bi-GRU for Route Planning and Order Dispatch of Bus-Booking Platform

  • Yucen Gao
  • , Yuanning Gao
  • , Yuhao Li
  • , Xiaofeng Gao*
  • , Xiang Li
  • , Guihai Chen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

To cope with the high needs from passengers, especially for airports at night, we plan to develop a novel bus-booking platform, which can dispatch several passenger orders to one bus together. In this paper, we first give the formal definition of the Order Dispatch and Route Planning (ODRP) problem for the new bus-booking platform, and prove the ODRP problem is NP-hard. We then propose a new method based on attention mechanism and Bi-directional Gated Recurrent Unit (Bi-GRU) to realize the tasks of order dispatch and route planning simultaneously. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first method that uses main ideas of attention mechanism and Bi-GRU in order dispatch and route planning issues related to urban bus system. It can achieve the goal of increasing passenger number and reducing platform costs. Through experiments based on real-world data, we prove the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDatabase Systems for Advanced Applications - 26th International Conference, DASFAA 2021, Proceedings
EditorsChristian S. Jensen, Ee-Peng Lim, De-Nian Yang, Wang-Chien Lee, Vincent S. Tseng, Vana Kalogeraki, Jen-Wei Huang, Chih-Ya Shen
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages609-624
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783030731939
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2021 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 11 Apr 202114 Apr 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12681 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2021
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaipei
Period11/04/2114/04/21

Keywords

  • Bus-booking platform
  • Order dispatch
  • Route planning

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