The intermediate link compression characteristics of e-commerce express logistics ne tworks influence the tradition al mode of circulation of goods and economic organization,and alter the city spatial pattern.Based on...The intermediate link compression characteristics of e-commerce express logistics ne tworks influence the tradition al mode of circulation of goods and economic organization,and alter the city spatial pattern.Based on the theory of space of flows,this study adopts China Smart Logistics Network relational data to build China's e-commerce express logistics network and explore its spatial structure characteristics through social network analysis(SNA),the PageRank technique,and geospatial methods.The results are as follows:the network density is 0.9270,which is close to 1;hence,indicating that e-commerce express logistics lines between Chinese cities are nearly complete and they form a typical network structure,thereby eliminating fragmented spaces.Moreover,the average minimum number of edges is 1.1375,which indicates that the network has a small world effect and thus has a high flow efficiency of logistics elements.A significant hierarchical diffusion effect was observed in dominant flows with the highest edge weights.A diamond-structured network was formed with Shanghai,Guangzhou,Chongqing,and Beijing as the four core nodes.Other node cities with a large logistics scale and importance in the network are mainly located in the 19 city agglomerations of China,revealing the fact that the development of city agglomerations is essential for promoting the separation of experience space and changing the urban spatial pattern.This study enriches the theory of urban networks,reveals the flow laws of modern logistics elements,and encourages coordinated development of urban logistics.展开更多
Traffic flow prediction becomes an essential process for intelligent transportation systems(ITS).Though traffic sensor devices are manually controllable,traffic flow data with distinct length,uneven sampling,and missi...Traffic flow prediction becomes an essential process for intelligent transportation systems(ITS).Though traffic sensor devices are manually controllable,traffic flow data with distinct length,uneven sampling,and missing data finds challenging for effective exploitation.The traffic data has been considerably increased in recent times which cannot be handled by traditional mathematical models.The recent developments of statistic and deep learning(DL)models pave a way for the effectual design of traffic flow prediction(TFP)models.In this view,this study designs optimal attentionbased deep learning with statistical analysis for TFP(OADLSA-TFP)model.The presentedOADLSA-TFP model intends to effectually forecast the level of traffic in the environment.To attain this,the OADLSA-TFP model employs attention-based bidirectional long short-term memory(ABLSTM)model for predicting traffic flow.In order to enhance the performance of the ABLSTM model,the hyperparameter optimization process is performed using artificial fish swarm algorithm(AFSA).A wide-ranging experimental analysis is carried out on benchmark dataset and the obtained values reported the enhancements of the OADLSA-TFP model over the recent approaches mean square error(MSE),root mean square error(RMSE),and mean absolute percentage error(MAPE)of 120.342%,10.970%,and 8.146%respectively.展开更多
基金Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42071165,41801144)GDAS’Project of Science and Technology Development(No.2023GDASZH-2023010101,2021GDASYL-20210103004)。
文摘The intermediate link compression characteristics of e-commerce express logistics ne tworks influence the tradition al mode of circulation of goods and economic organization,and alter the city spatial pattern.Based on the theory of space of flows,this study adopts China Smart Logistics Network relational data to build China's e-commerce express logistics network and explore its spatial structure characteristics through social network analysis(SNA),the PageRank technique,and geospatial methods.The results are as follows:the network density is 0.9270,which is close to 1;hence,indicating that e-commerce express logistics lines between Chinese cities are nearly complete and they form a typical network structure,thereby eliminating fragmented spaces.Moreover,the average minimum number of edges is 1.1375,which indicates that the network has a small world effect and thus has a high flow efficiency of logistics elements.A significant hierarchical diffusion effect was observed in dominant flows with the highest edge weights.A diamond-structured network was formed with Shanghai,Guangzhou,Chongqing,and Beijing as the four core nodes.Other node cities with a large logistics scale and importance in the network are mainly located in the 19 city agglomerations of China,revealing the fact that the development of city agglomerations is essential for promoting the separation of experience space and changing the urban spatial pattern.This study enriches the theory of urban networks,reveals the flow laws of modern logistics elements,and encourages coordinated development of urban logistics.
基金This project was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research(DSR)at King Abdulaziz University(KAU),Jeddah,Saudi Arabia,under grant no.(G:665-980-1441).
文摘Traffic flow prediction becomes an essential process for intelligent transportation systems(ITS).Though traffic sensor devices are manually controllable,traffic flow data with distinct length,uneven sampling,and missing data finds challenging for effective exploitation.The traffic data has been considerably increased in recent times which cannot be handled by traditional mathematical models.The recent developments of statistic and deep learning(DL)models pave a way for the effectual design of traffic flow prediction(TFP)models.In this view,this study designs optimal attentionbased deep learning with statistical analysis for TFP(OADLSA-TFP)model.The presentedOADLSA-TFP model intends to effectually forecast the level of traffic in the environment.To attain this,the OADLSA-TFP model employs attention-based bidirectional long short-term memory(ABLSTM)model for predicting traffic flow.In order to enhance the performance of the ABLSTM model,the hyperparameter optimization process is performed using artificial fish swarm algorithm(AFSA).A wide-ranging experimental analysis is carried out on benchmark dataset and the obtained values reported the enhancements of the OADLSA-TFP model over the recent approaches mean square error(MSE),root mean square error(RMSE),and mean absolute percentage error(MAPE)of 120.342%,10.970%,and 8.146%respectively.
