The short term passenger flow prediction of the urban rail transit system is of great significance for traffic operation and management. The emerging deep learning-based models provide effective methods to improve prediction accuracy. However, most of the existing models mainly predict the passenger flow on general weekdays or weekends. There are only few studies focusing on predicting the passenger flow on holidays, which is a significantly challenging task for traffic management because of its suddenness and irregularity. To this end, we propose a deep learning-based model named Spatial Temporal Attention Fusion Network comprising a novel Multi-Graph Attention Network, a Conv-Attention Block, and Feature Fusion Block for short-term passenger flow prediction on holidays. The multi-graph attention network is applied to extract the complex spatial dependencies of passenger flow dynamically and the conv-attention block is applied to extract the temporal dependencies of passenger flow from global and local perspectives. Moreover, in addition to the historical passenger flow data, the social media data, which has been proven that they can effectively reflect the evolution trend of passenger flow under events, are also fused into the feature fusion block of STAFN. The STAFN is tested on two large-scale urban rail transit AFC datasets from China on the New Year holiday, and the prediction performance of the model are compared with that of several conventional prediction models. Results demonstrate its better robustness and advantages among benchmark methods, which can provide overwhelming support for practical applications of short term passenger flow prediction on holidays.
Accurate short-term passenger flow prediction in urban rail transit stations has great benefits for reasonably allocating resources, easing congestion, and reducing operational risks. However, compared with data-rich stations, the passenger flow prediction in newly-operated stations is limited by passenger flow data volume, which would reduce the prediction accuracy and increase the difficulty for station management and operation. Hence, how accurately predicting passenger flow in newly-operated stations with limited data is an urgent problem to be solved. Existing passenger flow prediction ap…
Different passenger demand rates in transit stations underscore the importance of adopting operational strategies to provide a demand-responsive service. Aiming at improving passengers' travel time, the present study introduces an advanced data-driven optimization approach to determine the optimal stop-skip pattern in urban rail transit lines. In detail, first, using the time-series smart card data for an entire month, we employ a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) deep learning model to predict the station-level demand rates for the peak hour. This prediction is based on four preceding hours and i…
Delft University of Technology（代尔夫特理工大学）；City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）；Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University（弗吉尼亚理工学院暨州立大学）
Short-term forecasting of passenger flow is critical for transit management and crowd regulation. Spatial dependencies, temporal dependencies, inter-station correlations driven by other latent factors, and exogenous factors bring challenges to the short-term forecasts of passenger flow of urban rail transit networks. An innovative deep learning approach, Multi-Graph Convolutional-Recurrent Neural Network (MGC-RNN) is proposed to forecast passenger flow in urban rail transit systems to incorporate these complex factors. We propose to use multiple graphs to encode the spatial and other heterogen…
Predicting Delayed Train Trajectories on the Dutch Railway Network: Explainable AI Evaluation of Topological, Operational and Weather Features with Tree Based Ensemble Methods
A data-driven approach to inferring travel trajectory during peak hours in urban rail transit systems
Beijing Jiaotong University（北京交通大学）；China Railway Signaling and Communication Research and Design Institute（中国铁路通信信号研究设计院）；Beijing Urban Construction Design & Development Group Co.（北京城建设计发展集团有限公司）
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen（香港中文大学（深圳））；Concordia University（康考迪亚大学）；Northeastern University（东北大学）；Texas A&M University（德州农工大学）
Predicting the near-future delay with accuracy for trains is momentous for railway operations and passengers' traveling experience. This work aims to design prediction models for train delays based on Netherlands Railway data. We first develop a chi-square test to show that the delay evolution over stations follows a first-order Markov chain. We then propose a delay prediction model based on non-homogeneous Markov chains. To deal with the sparsity of the transition matrices of the Markov chains, we propose a novel matrix recovery approach that relies on Gaussian kernel density estimation. Our …
Predicting Subway Passenger Flows under Incident Situation with Causality
Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering, Ministry of Education at Tongji University（同济大学交通工程教育重点实验室）；Urban Mobility Institute, Tongji University（同济大学城市交通研究院）
Exploring the impact of weather on Metro demand forecasting using machine learning method
Qiushi Honors College, Tianjin University（天津大学求是学部）；School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University（北京交通大学交通运输学院）；Maynooth International Engineering College, Fuzhou University（福州大学梅努斯国际工程学院）；Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学）；Beijing Forestry University（北京林业大学）
Many special events, including sport games and concerts, often cause surges in demand and congestion for transit systems. Therefore, it is important for transit providers to understand their impact on disruptions, delays, and fare revenues. This paper proposes a suite of data-driven techniques that exploit Automated Fare Collection (AFC) data for evaluating, anticipating, and managing the performance of transit systems during recurring congestion peaks due to special events. This includes an extensive analysis of ridership of the two major stadiums in downtown Atlanta using rail data from the …
