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Most of the existing taxi demand forecasting methods lack the ability to capture the dynamic spatial-temporal dependencies among regions. They either fail to consider the limitations of Graph Neural Networks or do not efficiently capture the long-term temporal dependencies. In this paper, we propose a Spatial-Temporal Diffusion Convolutional Network (ST-DCN) for taxi demand forecasting. The dynamic spatial dependencies are efficiently captured through a two-phase graph diffusion convolutional network where the attention mechanism is introduced. Moreover, a novel temporal convolution module is designed to learn various ranges of temporal dependencies, including recent, daily, and weekly periods. Inside the module, convolution layers are stacked to handle very long sequences. Experimental results on two large-scale real-world taxi datasets from New York City (NYC) and Chengdu demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms seven state-of-the-art baseline methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi11030193","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,13]],"date-time":"2022-03-13T22:29:43Z","timestamp":1647210583000},"page":"193","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Spatial-Temporal Diffusion Convolutional Network: A Novel Framework for Taxi Demand Forecasting"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8505-8057","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aling","family":"Luo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Boyi","family":"Shangguan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5361-6034","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Can","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Fan","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3754-4039","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhe","family":"Fang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Dayu","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Zhang, J., Zheng, Y., and Qi, D. 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