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Find Sub-Optimally Traveled Trips #123

Open gaukes opened 9 years ago

gaukes commented 9 years ago

To help with the recommender system, find a way to determine parts of common trips a user takes that could be more efficiently traveled. We plan to use the google api to see if a trip can be taken through some shorter path. We can also suggest changing modes of transportation for parts of common trips by seeing the typical distance a user bikes/walks and recommending shorter parts of trips to be that.

shankari commented 9 years ago

This is related to issue #88, which displays the most common trips, and issue #89, which starts building a recommender system.

shankari commented 9 years ago

So as part of the design, since this is a "people" oriented change, what do you plan to do with the trips once you have them? You say "suggest changing modes of transportation". How do you plan to do that?

shankari commented 9 years ago

Also, the NREL folks are interested in coming up with such a recommender system as well.

Their plan is to make the API calls from the user phone in order to avoid rate limit issues, which seems like a reasonable design.

Adding @karunmj to the issue so that he can track what this group is exploring, and how that interacts with the NREL plans.