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In this paper, we propose three deep learning-based solutions to forecast the inflow and outflow of vessels within a given region, including a convolutional neural network (CNN), a long short-term memory (LSTM) network, and the integration of a bidirectional LSTM network with a CNN (BDLSTM-CNN). To apply those solutions, we first divide the given maritime region into \r\n          \r\n            \r\n              \r\n                M\r\n                \u00d7\r\n                N\r\n              \r\n            \r\n          \r\n         grids, then we forecast the inflow and outflow for all the grids. Experimental results based on the real AIS (Automatic Identification System) data of marine vessels in Singapore demonstrate that the three deep learning-based solutions significantly outperform the conventional method in terms of mean absolute error and root mean square error, with the performance of the BDLSTM-CNN-based hybrid solution being the best.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20061761","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,24]],"date-time":"2020-03-24T07:16:08Z","timestamp":1585034168000},"page":"1761","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":45,"title":["Using Deep Learning to Forecast Maritime Vessel Flows"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0217-5344","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiangyu","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Navigation College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China"},{"name":"Centre for Maritime Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore 118414, Singapore"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhengjiang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Navigation College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fengwu","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Navigation College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yajuan","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Maritime Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore 118414, Singapore"},{"name":"Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xuexi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"29","DOI":"10.1007\/s12530-015-9133-5","article-title":"Real-time vessel behavior prediction","volume":"7","author":"Zissis","year":"2016","journal-title":"Evol. 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