Behavior2vector: Embedding Users’ Personalized Travel Behavior to Vector

We investigate how to effectively and efficiently embed users’ personalized travel behaviors to vectors in this paper. Based on an example scenario of travel mode choice in intelligent transportation system, three data structures representing users’ travel behaviors are defined, namely heterogeneous graph of users’ travel behaviors, user travel behavior
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-partite graph, and personalized user travel behavior sentence set. This paper systematically analyzes the principle of existing methods and provides intuitions for the problem of learning travel behavior representation in intelligent transportation system. Then we propose the Behavior2vector, which is an improved method tailored for embedding users’ personalized travel behaviors to vectors. In our experiments, we design a travel mode choice model based on machine learning, which uses both hand-crafted basic features and embedded vector features. We further quantify the impact of various factors on travel mode choice and use travel big data to test the hypothesis of traffic assignment models, e.g., travelers always choose the path with the shortest path. In addition, we also compared with the existing graph embedding methods and essentially discussed their advantages and disadvantages.