Trip Prediction by Leveraging Trip Histories from Neighboring Users
  We propose a novel approach for trip prediction by analyzing user's trip
histories. We augment users' (self-) trip histories by adding 'similar' trips
from other users, which could be informative and useful for predicting future
trips for a given user. This also helps to cope with noisy or sparse trip
histories, where the self-history by itself does not provide a reliable
prediction of future trips. We show empirical evidence that by enriching the
users' trip histories with additional trips, one can improve the prediction
error by 15%-40%, evaluated on multiple subsets of the Nancy2012 dataset. This
real-world dataset is collected from public transportation ticket validations
in the city of Nancy, France. Our prediction tool is a central component of a
trip simulator system designed to analyze the functionality of public
transportation in the city of Nancy.
