The task of this competition was to create a predictive model to forecast the number of tickets Mobi-ticket expects to sell with great accuracy and my solution ranked 15th For more information visit: https://zindi.africa/competitions/traffic-jam-predicting-peoples-movement-into-nairobi
train_revised.csv (zipped) is the dataset of tickets purchased from Mobiticket for the 14 routes from “up country” into Nairobi between 17 October 2017 and 20 April 2018. This dataset includes the variables: ride_id, seat_number, payment_method, payment_receipt, travel_date, travel_time, travel_from, travel_to, car_type, max_capacity.
test_questions.csv is the dataset on which you will apply your model to estimate number of tickets sold by Mobiticket per unique ride. This dataset contains all of the rides offered on the same 14 routes during the two weeks following train.csv, i.e. 21 April 2018 to 9 May 2018. The variables included in this dataset: ride_id, travel_date, travel_time, travel_from, travel_to, car_type, max_capacity.
sample_submission.csv is a table to provide an example of what your submission file should look like. This table has two columns: ride_id, number_of_ticket.
Uber Movement traffic data can be accessed at movement.uber.com. Data is available for Nairobi through June 2018. (If the data for April-June are not up yet, they will be shortly.) Uber Movement provided historic hourly travel time between any two points in Nairobi. Any tables that are extracted from the Uber Movement platform can be used in your model.
**ride_id: **unique ID of a vehicle on a specific route on a specific day and time.
seat_number: seat assigned to ticket
payment_method: method used by customer to purchase ticket from Mobiticket (cash or Mpesa)
payment_receipt: unique id number for ticket purchased from Mobiticket
travel_date: date of ride departure. (MM/DD/YYYY)
travel_time: scheduled departure time of ride. Rides generally depart on time. (hh:mm)
travel_from: town from which ride originated
travel_to: destination of ride. All rides are to Nairobi.
car_type: vehicle type (shuttle or bus)
max_capacity: number of seats on the vehicle