Summary of Exploring the Effects Of Population and Employment Characteristics on Truck Flows: An Analysis Of Nextgen Nhts Origin-destination Data, by Majbah Uddin et al.
Exploring the Effects of Population and Employment Characteristics on Truck Flows: An Analysis of NextGen NHTS Origin-Destination Data
by Majbah Uddin, Yuandong Liu, Hyeonsup Lim
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents an investigation into the effects of population and employment characteristics on truck transportation flows in the US. By combining truck travel origin-destination data from the Federal Highway Administration with zone-level demographics from the Census Bureau, researchers trained an Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model to predict total truck trips. The study found that distance between zones had a nonlinear relationship with truck flows and was the most important variable in explaining truck trip patterns. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Trucks are the main way goods move around the US because they can go almost anywhere and deliver things quickly. It’s important to understand how many trucks are moving and why, so cities can plan better for transportation and make smart decisions about where to put roads and infrastructure. The government has a big dataset that shows where all the truck trips happen in the country. Researchers added information about population and jobs in different areas to this data. They then used a special computer program called XGBoost to figure out what makes trucks move. The results showed that how far apart two places are is really important for predicting how many trucks will travel between them. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Extreme gradient boosting * Xgboost
