@inproceedings{6ba16c0d556545358d3e57351914f959,
title = "Dual-Branch Neural Networks for Predicting Shared Bikes",
abstract = "Bike sharing is efficient urban mobility method as a user determines the rental period upon his/her demand. A dock-based sharing system designates places (i.e., bike docks or stations) where a user rents or returns a bike. Due to regionally and temporally erratic nature of urban mobility demand, bike imbalance among stations inevitably occurs and a service operator rebalances bikes to prevent service impairment. The precise prediction of imbalance for each station is essential to optimize the rebalancing schedule. This paper presents Dual-Branch Neural Networks (DBNNs) employing Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) to classify the imbalance level of each station along with the prediction of bike counts. To address the dual objectives, the model trains by backpropagating both classification and prediction losses to the dual output branches individually, and jointly updates the trainable parameters of LSTM layers. The results showcase that the proposed model predicts bike counts within 8\% average error for next 24 hours, and achieves 94\% accuracy of classification for the same time period.",
keywords = "Bike Sharing, Dual-Branch Neural Network, Time-series Prediction",
author = "Huigyu Yang and Raza, \{Syed M.\} and Le, \{Duc Tai\} and Kim, \{Dongsoo S.\} and Hyunseung Choo",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 IEEE.; 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, IMCOM 2023 ; Conference date: 03-01-2023 Through 05-01-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1109/IMCOM56909.2023.10035665",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 2023 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, IMCOM 2023",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
editor = "Sukhan Lee and Hyunseung Choo and Roslan Ismail",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2023 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, IMCOM 2023",
}