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7 Citations
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6 March 2025

Traditional station passenger flow prediction can no longer meet the application needs of urban rail transit vehicle scheduling. Station passenger flow can only predict station distribution, and the passenger flow distribution in general sections is...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,562 Views
23 Pages

12 June 2025

Due to the unbalanced temporal and spatial distribution of the passenger flow on metro lines during peak hours, the implementation of passenger flow control strategies effectively ensures operational safety and travel efficiency for passengers. In th...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,029 Views
21 Pages

26 July 2022

The ever-increasing travel demand has brought great challenges to the organization, operation, and management of the subway system. An accurate estimation of passenger flow distribution can help subway operators design corresponding operation plans a...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,386 Views
21 Pages

Passenger Flow-Oriented Metro Operation without Timetables

  • Li He,
  • Lei Chen,
  • Jin Liu,
  • Clive Roberts,
  • Saijun Yu and
  • Xujie Feng

15 May 2022

Unpredictable fluctuant passenger flow usually exists in urban metro operations. In this situation, traditional predetermined metro timetables cannot always meet the variation of passenger flow, and thus the service quality of the metro system could...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Algorithms and Large-Scale Real-World Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,744 Views
21 Pages

23 December 2024

The prominent contradiction between passenger demand and capacity in rush hours at subway stations causes inconveniences to travel and even leads to safety risks. Existing research on the cooperative control of passenger flow at stations mostly focus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,069 Views
14 Pages

Passenger Flow Prediction of Scenic Spot Using a GCN–RNN Model

  • Zhijie Xu,
  • Liyan Hou,
  • Yueying Zhang and
  • Jianqin Zhang

11 March 2022

The prediction and control of passenger flow in scenic spots is very important to the traffic management and safety of scenic spots. This study aims to predict the passenger flow of a scenic spot based on the passenger flow of the bus and subway stat...

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  • Open Access
1,810 Views
17 Pages

Dynamic Evaluation Method for Mutation Degree of Passenger Flow in Urban Rail Transit

  • Ting Chen,
  • Jianxiao Ma,
  • Shuang Li,
  • Zhenjun Zhu and
  • Xiucheng Guo

9 November 2023

When urban rail transit is affected by interference, the fluctuation pattern of passenger flow undergoes mutation, which is not conducive to its operational safety and sustainable development. The more intense the mutation in the passenger flow, the...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,519 Views
24 Pages

A Comprehensive Spatio-Temporal Model for Subway Passenger Flow Prediction

  • Zhihao Zhang,
  • Yong Han,
  • Tongxin Peng,
  • Zhenxin Li and
  • Ge Chen

Accurate subway passenger flow prediction is crucial to operation management and line scheduling. It can also promote the construction of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Due to the complex spatial features and time-varying traffic patterns...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,790 Views
21 Pages

13 October 2023

Accurate prediction of metro passenger flow helps operating departments optimize scheduling plans, alleviate passenger flow pressure, and improve service quality. However, existing passenger flow prediction models tend to only consider the historical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine/Deep Learning: Applications, Technologies and Algorithms)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,496 Views
11 Pages

A Complete Information Interaction-Based Bus Passenger Flow Control Model for Epidemic Spread Prevention

  • Xinghua Hu,
  • Yimei Xu,
  • Jianpu Guo,
  • Tingting Zhang,
  • Yuhang Bi,
  • Wei Liu and
  • Xiaochuan Zhou

30 June 2022

Because the strategy of stopping bus lines during an epidemic can negatively impact residents, this study proposes a bus passenger flow control model to optimize the safety of and access to bus transport. The information interaction environment can p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,443 Views
17 Pages

Development of a Method for Selecting Bus Rapid Transit Corridors Based on the Economically Viable Passenger Flow Criterion

  • Ivan Pechkurov,
  • Dmitry Plotnikov,
  • Andrey Gorev,
  • Tatiana Kudryavtseva,
  • Aushra Banite and
  • Angi Skhvediani

28 January 2023

The creation of bus rapid transit systems requires significant investments in transport infrastructure. It often requires changes in roadway parameters, building boarding platforms, new bus depots, as well as creating a priority passage system at int...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,233 Views
17 Pages

Passenger Flow Prediction of Urban Rail Transit Based on Deep Learning Methods

  • Zhi Xiong,
  • Jianchun Zheng,
  • Dunjiang Song,
  • Shaobo Zhong and
  • Quanyi Huang

The rapid development of urban rail transit brings high efficiency and convenience. At the same time, the increasing passenger flow also remarkably increases the risk of emergencies such as passenger stampedes. The accurate and real-time prediction o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data-Driven Intelligent Services in Smart Cities)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,998 Views
19 Pages

A Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Multi-Station Classification and Passenger Flow Prediction

  • Lijuan Liu,
  • Mingxiao Wu,
  • Rung-Ching Chen,
  • Shunzhi Zhu and
  • Yan Wang

23 February 2023

Multiple station passenger flow prediction is crucial but challenging for intelligent transportation systems. Recently, deep learning models have been widely applied in multi-station passenger flow prediction. However, flows at the same station in di...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,535 Views
14 Pages

8 October 2025

Metro stations serve as critical hubs for passenger gathering and scattering. Under disturbing scenarios, a station’s ability to respond to disturbances, named resilience, fundamentally governs the operational stability, sustainability and emer...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,018 Views
18 Pages

2 July 2024

To unravel the general relationship between bus travel and land use around bus stops and along bus routes and to promote their coordinated development, this paper explores a method to estimate passenger flow volumes from and to bus stops based on lan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategic Planning for Urban Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
619 Views
16 Pages

Urban rail transit networks in developing countries are rapidly expanding, entering a networked operational phase where accurate passenger flow forecasting is crucial for optimizing vehicle scheduling, resource allocation, and transportation efficien...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,314 Views
15 Pages

Research on Line Planning and Timetabling Optimization Model Based on Passenger Flow of Subway Network

  • Wenqing Mei,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Miao Zhang,
  • Guangming Qing and
  • Zhaoyang Zhang

15 April 2022

In this paper, we propose a line planning and timetabling optimization model considering operation cost and passenger satisfaction based on passenger flow. By comprehensively considering the operation cost and passenger waiting cost, the comprehensiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,214 Views
18 Pages

28 July 2022

It is difficult for a single model to simultaneously capture the nonlinear, correlation, and periodicity of data series in the passenger flow prediction of urban rail transit (URT). To better predict the short-term passenger flow of URT, based on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Damage Monitoring and Defect Identification Based on Deep/Machine Learning)
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  • Open Access
432 Views
20 Pages

GAT-Informer: A Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network Model for Urban Passenger Flow Forecasting

  • Yongjian Ma,
  • Mingyang Wang,
  • Wei Zhou,
  • Huifu Jiang,
  • Xiao Qin,
  • Linsen Du and
  • Jinyang Cao

1 June 2026

Accurate bus passenger flow prediction is a critical prerequisite for optimizing resource allocation in intelligent bus systems and improving public transport service quality. However, due to dynamic fluctuations in passenger travel demand and the co...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
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  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,968 Views
16 Pages

29 May 2020

With the development of big data and deep learning, bus passenger flow prediction considering real-time data becomes possible. Real-time traffic flow prediction helps to grasp real-time passenger flow dynamics, provide early warning for a sudden pass...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,326 Views
13 Pages

19 December 2019

Urban rail transit passenger flow forecasting is an important basis for station design, passenger flow organization, and train operation plan optimization. In this work, we combined the artificial fish swarm and improved particle swarm optimization (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable and Intelligent Transportation Systems)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,940 Views
18 Pages

21 July 2025

Establishing a high-precision passenger flow prediction model is a critical and complex task for the optimization of urban rail transit systems. With the development of artificial intelligence technology, the data-driven technology has been widely st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Perception, Control and Optimization Methods in Intelligent Transportation Systems)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,930 Views
19 Pages

The Impact of Land Use on Time-Varying Passenger Flow Based on Site Classification

  • Kexin Lei,
  • Quanhua Hou,
  • Weijia Li,
  • Meng Zhao,
  • Jizhe Zhou,
  • Lingda Zhang,
  • Shihan Chen and
  • Yaqiong Duan

2 December 2022

During the different periods of a day, the imbalanced distribution of inbound ridership, that is related to land use, results in extreme flow, which makes metro management challenging. The causes of imbalanced passenger flow from the perspective of l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Land Development in the Process of Urbanization)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,488 Views
24 Pages

Peak-hour congestion in metro systems poses significant challenges to operational reliability and passenger experience. This study investigates a coordinated operational strategy that integrates passenger flow control, reservation-based entry, and sk...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planning and Operations for Modern Railway Transport Systems)
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  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,435 Views
22 Pages

23 August 2020

High-density land uses cause high-intensity traffic demand. Metro as an urban mass transit mode is considered as a sustainable strategy to balance the urban high-density land uses development and the high-intensity traffic demand. However, the capaci...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
796 Views
31 Pages

A FIG-IWOA-BiGRU Model for Bus Passenger Flow Fluctuation Trend and Spatial Prediction

  • Jie Zhang,
  • Qingling He,
  • Xiaojuan Lu,
  • Shungen Xiao and
  • Ning Wang

6 October 2025

To capture bus passenger flow fluctuations and address the problems of slow convergence and high error in machine learning parameter optimization, this paper develops an improved Whale Optimization Algorithm (IWOA) integrated with a Bidirectional Gat...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
775 Views
24 Pages

5 March 2026

With the acceleration of urbanization, public transit systems face prominent challenges, including insufficient passenger flow prediction accuracy and low scheduling efficiency. This study analyzes passenger flow variation patterns from both spatial...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research and Estimation of Traffic Flow Characteristics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,648 Views
17 Pages

7 April 2024

When new rail stations or lines are planned, long-term planning for decades to come is required. The short-term passenger flow prediction is no longer of practical significance, as it only takes a few factors that affect passenger flow into considera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of New Technology and New Ideas in Intelligent Transportation System)
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  • Open Access
55 Citations
5,732 Views
24 Pages

Short-Term Prediction of Bus Passenger Flow Based on a Hybrid Optimized LSTM Network

  • Yong Han,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Yibin Ren,
  • Shukang Wang,
  • Huangcheng Zheng and
  • Ge Chen

The accurate prediction of bus passenger flow is the key to public transport management and the smart city. A long short-term memory network, a deep learning method for modeling sequences, is an efficient way to capture the time dependency of passeng...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Computer Vision for GeoInformation Sciences)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,585 Views
17 Pages

9 December 2024

In recent years, with the rapid development of the global demand and scale for deep underground space utilization, deep space has gradually transitioned from single-purpose uses such as underground transportation, civil defense, and commerce to a com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation Systems: Advances in Object Detection and Traffic Management)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,233 Views
23 Pages

4 September 2020

As China’s urbanization process continues to accelerate, the demand for intercity residents’ transportation has increased dramatically. Holiday travel has different demand characteristics, causing serious shortage during peak periods. How...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Urban Transport Policy in the Context of New Mobility)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,753 Views
24 Pages

Passenger Flow Prediction for Rail Transit Stations Based on an Improved SSA-LSTM Model

  • Xing Zhao,
  • Chenxi Li,
  • Xueting Zou,
  • Xiwang Du and
  • Ahmed Ismail

14 November 2024

Accurate and timely passenger flow prediction is important for the successful deployment of rail transit intelligent operation. The Sparrow Search Algorithm (SSA) has been applied to the parameter optimization of a Long-Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Mathematical Methods to Transportation: Modeling and Analysis)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,052 Views
16 Pages

9 October 2023

Urban rail transit offers advantages such as high safety, energy efficiency, and environmental friendliness. With cities rapidly expanding, travelers are increasingly using rail systems, heightening demands for passenger capacity and efficiency while...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational and Mathematical Methods in Information Science and Engineering, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
507 Views
21 Pages

Multi-Source Data-Driven Estimation Model for Passenger Flow Management in Urban Rail Transit

  • Kaiwen Hou,
  • Zhengping Tao,
  • Yongtao Liu,
  • Jiankun Yuan,
  • Jianfan Wu and
  • Kai Yu

11 August 2026

The accurate estimation of real-time passenger flow in urban rail transit (URT) networks plays a crucial role in optimizing the operation and management of urban rail transit systems, with profound implications for daily operation scheduling, passeng...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Intelligent Transportation Systems and Traffic Control for Smart Cities)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,141 Views
27 Pages

A Hybrid GLM Model for Predicting Citywide Spatio-Temporal Metro Passenger Flow

  • Yong Han,
  • Tongxin Peng,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Zhihao Zhang and
  • Ge Chen

Accurate prediction of citywide short-term metro passenger flow is essential to urban management and transport scheduling. Recently, an increasing number of researchers have applied deep learning models to passenger flow prediction. Nevertheless, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,140 Views
17 Pages

3 January 2023

A crucial component of multimodal transportation networks and long-distance travel chains is the forecasting of transfer passenger flow between integrated hubs in urban agglomerations, particularly during periods of high passenger flow or unusual wea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization and Simulation Techniques for Transportation)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,760 Views
20 Pages

3 May 2023

Accurate forecasting of the future transfer passenger flow from historical data is essential for helping travelers to adjust their trips, optimal resource allocation and alleviating traffic congestion. However, current studies have mainly emphasized...

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  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,282 Views
14 Pages

18 January 2022

Bus operation scheduling is closely related to passenger flow. Accurate bus passenger flow prediction can help improve urban bus planning and service quality and reduce the cost of bus operation. Using machine learning algorithms to find the rules of...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,797 Views
23 Pages

18 February 2025

Grasping the effective carrying capacity of airport hub subway stations in real-time serves as the foundation for enhancing the safety assurance capability of the hub. Starting from the perspectives of multiple subsystems, including people, stations,...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Theory and Methodology)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,744 Views
17 Pages

Collaborative Determination Method of Metro Train Plan Adjustment and Passenger Flow Control under the Impact of COVID-19

  • Fuquan Pan,
  • Jingshuang Li,
  • Hailiang Tang,
  • Changxi Ma,
  • Lixia Zhang and
  • Xiaoxia Yang

6 January 2023

Aiming at the problem of metro operation and passenger transport organization under the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a collaborative determination method of train planning and passenger flow control is proposed to reduce the train load...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Safety and Sustainability in Future Transportation)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,598 Views
21 Pages

11 April 2024

Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been promoted and implemented worldwide through the efficient integration of rail transit stations and land use. However, the interactions between stations and the surrounding catchment areas (CAs) are character...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Studies in Urban and Regional Planning)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,768 Views
17 Pages

27 October 2024

With the continuous growth of urbanization, passenger flow in urban rail transit systems is steadily increasing, making accurate long-term forecasting essential for optimizing operational scheduling and enhancing service quality. However, passenger f...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,725 Views
19 Pages

13 December 2024

To address the issues of slow convergence and large errors in existing metaheuristic algorithms when optimizing neural network-based subway passenger flow prediction, we propose the following improvements. First, we replace the random initialization...

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  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,611 Views
17 Pages

25 April 2020

Metro systems play a key role in meeting urban transport demands in large cities. The close relationship between historical weather conditions and the corresponding passenger flow has been widely analyzed by researchers. However, few studies have exp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computing and Artificial Intelligence for Visual Data Analysis)
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  • Open Access
468 Views
26 Pages

6 July 2026

With the continuous integration of rail transit and urban development, station-centered high-density construction often expands outward and forms a point-axis development pattern. As a result, the influence areas of adjacent stations increasingly ove...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transport Planning in Smart Cities and Sustainable Urban Design)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,887 Views
14 Pages

13 July 2022

The development of metro systems can be a good solution to many problems in urban transport and promote sustainable urban development. A metro system plays an important role in urban public transit, and the passenger-flow forecasting is fundamental t...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,318 Views
25 Pages

An Enhanced TimesNet-SARIMA Model for Predicting Outbound Subway Passenger Flow with Decomposition Techniques

  • Tianzhuo Zuo,
  • Shaohu Tang,
  • Liang Zhang,
  • Hailin Kang,
  • Hongkang Song and
  • Pengyu Li

7 March 2025

The accurate prediction of subway passenger flow is crucial for managing urban transportation systems. This research introduces a hybrid forecasting approach that combines an enhanced TimesNet model, Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,047 Views
22 Pages

22 April 2026

As a vital part of urban public transportation system, subway passenger flow prediction plays a crucial role in alleviating traffic congestion, improving transportation infrastructure, and optimizing travel experience. Existing subway passenger flow...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,686 Views
34 Pages

29 August 2024

Urban rail transit encounters supply–demand contradictions during peak hours, seriously affecting passenger experience. Therefore, it is necessary to explore and optimize passenger-flow control strategies for urban rail transit stations during...

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  • Open Access
57 Citations
7,055 Views
18 Pages

4 September 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is a significant public health problem globally, which causes difficulty and trouble for both people’s travel and public transport companies’ management. Improving the accuracy of bus passenger flow prediction during COVID-19 ca...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Transportation Systems)

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