Feature collector "position-fc"

Version: 1.0

Date: 24.05.2021

Authors: Zisis Maleas; Panagiotis Tzenos

Address: The Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)

Description

The "position-fc" feature collector is a module of the Ride2Rail Offer Categorizer responsible for the computation of the determinant factors: "road_dist", "ratio_dist", , "total_stops", "total_legs", "origin", "destination", "road_dist_norm", "total_stops_norm", "total_legs_norm", "ratio_dist_norm".

"road_dist", "road_dist_norm" : The total distance performed by transport modes using a road (car, bus, motorbike)
"ratio_dist" , "ratio_dist_norm": The proportion of distance using road network over the total trip distance. "total_stops", "total_stops_norm" : The total number of stops this offer have. "total_legs", "total_legs_norm" : The total number of legs this offer have.

Computation can be executed from "position.py" by running the procedure extract() which is binded under the name compute with URL using FLASK (see example request below). Computation is composed of three phases (Phase I:, Phase II:, and Phase III:) in the same way the (https://github.com/Ride2Rail/tsp-fc) use it.

Configuration

The following values of parameters can be defined in the configuration file "position.conf".

Section "running":

• "verbose" - if value "1" is used, then feature collector is run in the verbose mode,
• "scores" - if value "minmax_score" is used, the minmax approach is used for normalization of weights, otherwise, the "z-score" approach is used.

Section "cache":

• "host" - host address where the cache service that should be accessed by "position-fc" feature collector is available
• "port" - port number where the cache service that should be accessed used by "position-fc" feature collector is available

Example of the configuration file "position.conf":

[service]
name = position
type = feature collector
developed_by = Zisis Maleas <https://github.com/zisismaleas> and Panagiotis Tzenos <https://github.com/ptzenos>

[running]
verbose = 1
scores  = minmax_scores

[cache]
host = cache
port = 6379

Usage

Local development (debug on)

The feature collector "position-fc" can be launched from the terminal locally by running the script "position.py":

$ python3 position.py
 * Serving Flask app "position" (lazy loading)
 * Environment: development
 * Debug mode: on
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
 * Restarting with stat
 * Debugger is active!
 * Debugger PIN: 

The repository contains also configuration files required to launch the feature collector in Docker from the terminal by the command docker-compose up:

docker-compose up
Starting position_fc ... done
Attaching to position_fc
position_fc    |  * Serving Flask app "position.py" (lazy loading)
position_fc    |  * Environment: development
position_fc    |  * Debug mode: on
position_fc    |  * Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
position_fc    |  * Restarting with stat
position_fc    |  * Debugger is active!
position_fc    |  * Debugger PIN: 

Example Request

To make a request (i.e. to calculate values of determinant factors assigned to the "position-fc" feature collector for a given mobility request defined by a request_id) the command curl can be used:

$ curl --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
       --request POST  \
       --data '{"request_id": "123x" }' \
         http://localhost:5007/compute