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The goal of this paper is to learn the dynamics of truck co-driving behaviour. Understanding this behaviour is important because co-driving has a potential positive impact on the environment. In the so-called co-driving network, trucks are nodes while links indicate that two trucks frequently drive together. To understand the network’s dynamics, we use a link prediction approach employing a machine learning classifier. The features of the classifier can be categorized into spatio-temporal features, neighbourhood features, path features, and node features. The very different types of features allow us to understand the social processes underlying the co-driving behaviour. Our work is based on a spatio-temporal data not studied before. Data is collected from 18 million truck movements in the Netherlands. We find that co-driving behaviour is best described by using neighbourhood features, and to lesser extent by path and spatio-temporal features. Node features are deemed unimportant. Findings suggest that the dynamics of a truck co-driving network has clear social network effects.
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de Bruin, G.J., Veenman, C.J., van den Herik, H.J., Takes, F.W. (2020). Understanding Dynamics of Truck Co-Driving Networks. In: Cherifi, H., Gaito, S., Mendes, J., Moro, E., Rocha, L. (eds) Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 882. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36683-4_12
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