MVDLSTM: MultiView deep LSTM framework for online ride-hailing order prediction

Online ride-hailing order forecasting is a very important part of the intelligent traffic dispatch system. Accurate order forecasting can reduce the flow of invalid vehicles and improve the user experience of online ride-hailing. We propose a multi-view deep long short-term memory (LSTM) network architecture (MultiView deep LSTM framework), which uses convolutional neural network and graph convolutional network to extract the temporal and spatial characteristics of online ride-hailing orders, obtains the correlation information between regional orders through the order view, regional speed view, and weather factor view, and then uses LSTM unit and attention unit to predict the order volume in real time. We use Didi Haikou, China’s online ride-hailing dataset for training, compare it with the prediction algorithms of other articles, and experiment with different choices of the contrast framework. The experimental results show that our deep learning framework can effectively capture comprehensive spatio-temporal correlation and obtain better results. The model maintained good performance at 15 min, 30 min, and 1 h. Experiments conducted on the actual demand data onto ride-hailing from Didi Haikou data prove that our method is better than the latest method.