Abstract: Embodiments are provided for anticipating a demand for transportation on demand vehicles operating in a geographical region of interest, including a non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that when executed by at least one processor, cause it to perform operations, which may include: determining a plurality of spatiotemporal service need feature vectors characterizing a transportation need in the geographical region of interest over a first time period; determine a time-resolved regression function based on the plurality of spatiotemporal service need feature vectors; applying the time-resolved regression function to determine, from the plurality of spatiotemporal service need feature vectors, a plurality of anticipated spatiotemporal service need feature vectors for a second time period, subsequent to the first time period; and using the plurality of anticipated spatiotemporal service need feature vectors to determine a measure of anticipated transportation need in the geographical re