Accurate spatial-temporal prediction of network-based travelers' requests is crucial for the effective policy design of ridesharing platforms.
This paper introduces a novel prediction model, OD-CED, for fine-grained Origin-Destination (OD) demand prediction in ridesharing platforms.
OD-CED combines an unsupervised space coarsening technique and an encoder-decoder architecture to capture both semantic and geographic dependencies.
Experimental results show that OD-CED outperforms traditional statistical methods, achieving significant reductions in root-mean-square error and weighted mean absolute percentage error.