Data-driven Passenger-seeking Recommendation System for Street-hailing Taxis KU Leuven
Street-hailing taxis provide a primary transport service in modern cities. This service model relies on taxi drivers driving around, arbitrarily picking up passengers on the street. In this dissertation, we aim to develop a passenger-seeking recommendation system called TaxiRec, which directs vacant taxis towards predicted future passengers. The research is motivated by the challenge that passengers do not explicitly request a ride by phone ...