A STUDY ON TRAVEL TIME ESTIMATION FOR TAXI TRIPS

With companies like Uber, OLA, request and dispatchof taxi has become easier and accessible to a wide rangeof people. The problem of being able to automatically assignthe taxi for a given trip request is important from both theservice time and economics perspective of this business. One ofthe important aspect of this decision is to determine which nearbytaxi can be available early and hence predicting trip timesbecomes important to understand. In this problem, we aim atusing machine learning techniques to predict trip travel timesbased on the characteristics of the trip. Kaggle has providedthe data on trip times of various taxi trips as a part of it'scompetition. This data can be used to both train and test themodels.