Demand forecasting by hexagon
How Bugama predicts demand for the next minutes and the next 24 hours, and how events feed the forecast.
Bugama splits each city into hexagons and learns its demand pattern from live platform heat maps. Every morning it publishes a forecast for the next 24 hours, hexagon by hexagon.
- Nowcast: demand in the next minutes, on the same scale drivers see.
- Day-ahead: hour by hour for tomorrow.
- Agenda: the sustained peaks worth sending cars to.
- Event radar: concerts, matches and fairs collected from hundreds of sources and de-duplicated.