This document discusses using XGBoost for a machine learning competition called JSAI Cup 2017. It provides details on: - Using XGBoost to predict transportation demand using historical data from 500km of roads in Japan from 2012-2013. - Preprocessing the data, which included one-hot encoding of categorical features and splitting the data into 5 periods. - Training XGBoost models and evaluating their performance on the test data, achieving a log loss score of 0.1985 using default parameters and 0.1922 after additional hyperparameter tuning. - The top 20 predictions made by the best XGBoost model, with performance increasing compared to benchmark methods.