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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,787 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,727 Views
28 Pages

Enhancing Accuracy in Hourly Passenger Flow Forecasting for Urban Transit Using TBATS Boosting

  • Madhuri Patel,
  • Samir B. Patel,
  • Debabrata Swain and
  • Rishikesh Mallagundla

Passenger flow forecasting is crucial for optimizing urban transit operations, especially in developing countries such as India, where congestion, infrastructure constraints, and diverse commuter behaviors pose significant challenges. Despite its imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,075 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,458 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,158 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,298 Views
21 Pages

1 December 2022

Time-varying passenger flow is the input data in the optimization design of intercity high-speed railway transportation products, and it plays an important role. Therefore, it is necessary to predict the origin-destination (O-D) passenger flow at dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,529 Views
24 Pages

23 June 2020

The metro system plays an important role in urban public transit, and the passenger flow forecasting is fundamental to assisting operators establishing an intelligent transport system (ITS). The forecasting results can provide necessary information f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,500 Views
13 Pages

Demand Forecasting Model for Airline Flights Based on Historical Passenger Flow Data

  • Karina A. Lundaeva,
  • Zakhar A. Saranin,
  • Kapiton N. Pospelov and
  • Aleksei M. Gintciak

8 December 2024

This paper addresses the problem of estimating passenger demand for flights, with a particular focus on the necessity of developing precise forecasts that incorporate intricate and interdependent variables for effective resource planning within the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,174 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,320 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,706 Views
18 Pages

Rational use of urban underground space (UUS) and public transportation transfer underground can solve urban traffic problems. Accurate short-term prediction of passenger flow can ensure the efficient, safe, and comfortable operation of subway statio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,558 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2019

The improvement of accuracy of short-term passenger flow prediction plays a key role in the efficient and sustainable development of metro operation. The primary objective of this study is to explore the factors that influence prediction accuracy fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,807 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 (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,331 Views
25 Pages

2 June 2025

In this study, a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model with extra variables such as weather conditions and school days was developed within a multi-scale framework in order to forecast passenger flow in both bus and rail systems, covering both regional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,065 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
871 Views
21 Pages

6 October 2025

Short-term passenger flow prediction provides critical data-driven support for optimizing resource allocation, guiding passenger mobility, and enhancing risk response capabilities in urban rail transit systems. To further improve prediction accuracy,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,195 Views
16 Pages

3 November 2022

At present, machine learning has been successfully applied in many fields and has achieved amazing results. Meanwhile, over the past few years, the pandemic has transformed the transportation industry. The two hot issues prompt us to rethink the trad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
6,988 Views
14 Pages

Artificial Neural Networks for Forecasting Passenger Flows on Metro Lines

  • Mariano Gallo,
  • Giuseppina De Luca,
  • Luca D’Acierno and
  • Marilisa Botte

5 August 2019

Forecasting user flows on transportation networks is a fundamental task for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs). Indeed, most control and management strategies on transportation systems are based on the knowledge of user flows. For implementing ITS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,743 Views
17 Pages

10 February 2023

With the refinement of the urban transportation network, more and more passengers choose the combined mode. To provide better inter-trip services, it is necessary to integrate and forecast the passenger flow of multi-level rail transit network to imp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,869 Views
16 Pages

23 April 2024

The research on baggage flow plays a pivotal role in achieving the efficient and intelligent allocation and scheduling of airport service resources, as well as serving as a fundamental element in determining the design, development, and process optim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,442 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,764 Views
30 Pages

6 October 2022

Predicting short-term passenger flow accurately is of great significance for daily management and for a timely emergency response of rail transit networks. In this paper, we propose an attention-based Graph–Temporal Fused Neural Network (GTFNN)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,068 Views
16 Pages

14 March 2023

How to combine big data (BD) technology with specific applications in the tourism industry to achieve sustainable development in the tourism industry is a development issue that needs to be addressed in the tourism industry today. In order to promote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,228 Views
18 Pages

19 December 2024

The purpose of this paper is to optimize the accuracy of airport express passenger flow prediction so as to meet the need for the optimal allocation of traffic resources against the background of accelerated urbanization and the rapid development of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,093 Views
23 Pages

Estimating Rail Transit Passenger Flow Considering Built Environment Factors: A Case Study in Shenzhen

  • Wenjing Wang,
  • Haiyan Wang,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Chengfa Liu,
  • Shipeng Wang and
  • Yong Zhang

21 November 2024

This paper aims to analyze the influence mechanism of built environment factors on passenger flow by predicting the passenger flow of Shenzhen rail transit in the morning peak hour. Based on the classification of built environment factors into socio-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,376 Views
23 Pages

ADST: Forecasting Metro Flow Using Attention-Based Deep Spatial-Temporal Networks with Multi-Task Learning

  • Hongwei Jia,
  • Haiyong Luo,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Fang Zhao,
  • Qixue Ke,
  • Mingyao Wu and
  • Yunyun Zhao

14 August 2020

Passenger flow prediction has drawn increasing attention in the deep learning research field due to its great importance in traffic management and public safety. The major challenge of this essential task lies in multiple spatiotemporal correlations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,329 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,307 Views
19 Pages

9 May 2022

Public transportation systems are an effective way to reduce traffic congestion, air pollution, and energy consumption. Today, smartcard technology is used to shorten the time spent boarding/exiting buses and other types of public transportation; how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,480 Views
13 Pages

With the growing development of smart cities, public transit forecasting has begun to attract significant attention. In this paper, we propose an approach for forecasting passenger boarding choices and public transit passenger flow. Our prediction mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,832 Views
14 Pages

29 August 2019

Accurate forecasting of the hotel accommodation demands is extremely critical to the sustainable development of tourism-related industries. In view of the ever-increasing tourism data, this paper constructs a deep learning framework to handle the pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,837 Views
16 Pages

A Regional View of Passenger Air Link Evolution in Brazil

  • Vicente Aprigliano Fernandes,
  • Ricardo Rodrigues Pacheco,
  • Elton Fernandes,
  • Manoela Cabo and
  • Rodrigo V. Ventura

14 June 2022

Passenger flows among cities, at both the domestic and international levels and in different countries and regions, have been studied for forecasting purposes. This paper seeks not a forecasting mechanism, but to understand, by analyzing passenger or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,323 Views
26 Pages

Influence of Passenger Flow at the Station Entrances on Passenger Satisfaction Amid COVID-19

  • Roman Sidorchuk,
  • Anastasia Lukina,
  • Ilya Markin,
  • Stanislav Korobkov,
  • Natalia Ivashkova,
  • Sergey Mkhitaryan and
  • Irina Skorobogatykh

Railway stations are centers of mass accumulation of people. Additional regulations change the intensity of the flow of visitors and the time of entering the station. Delays become an essential factor affecting the perceived satisfaction with all ser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,549 Views
21 Pages

20 November 2024

Accurate forecasting of passenger checked baggage traffic is crucial for efficient and intelligent allocation and optimization of airport service resources. A systematic analysis of the influencing factors and prediction algorithms for the baggage fl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,531 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,024 Views
16 Pages

Intelligent Decision Support System for Modeling Transport and Passenger Flows in Human-Centric Urban Transport Systems

  • Natalia Davidich,
  • Andrii Galkin,
  • Yurii Davidich,
  • Tibor Schlosser,
  • Silvia Capayova,
  • Joanna Nowakowska-Grunt,
  • Yevhen Kush and
  • Russell Thompson

29 March 2022

Engineering human-centric urban transport systems should be carried out using information technology in forecasting traffic and passenger flows. One of the most important objects of urban transport systems’ progress is modeling patterns of tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,378 Views
30 Pages

12 May 2023

The accurate forecasting of short-term subway passenger flow is beneficial for promoting operational efficiency and passenger satisfaction. However, the nonlinearity and nonstationarity of passenger flow time series bring challenges to short-term pas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,024 Views
21 Pages

12 October 2024

Short-term origin–destination (OD) passenger flow forecasting is crucial for urban rail transit enterprises aiming to optimise transportation products and increase operating income. As there are large-scale OD pairs in an urban rail transit sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
413 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,079 Views
31 Pages

Passenger flow is an important benchmark for measuring tourism benefits, and accurate tourism passenger flow prediction is of great significance to the government and related tourism enterprises and can promote the sustainable development of China&rs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,944 Views
17 Pages

12 December 2024

In high-speed railway systems, the management of security resources at high-speed train stations is crucial for ensuring passenger safety and improving service efficiency. Effective security resource management enables the quick and efficient handlin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,609 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,578 Views
17 Pages

This research introduces a hybrid deep learning approach to perform real-time forecasting of passenger traffic flow for the metro railway system (MRS). By integrating long short-term memory (LSTM) and the graph convolutional network (GCN), a hybrid d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,247 Views
21 Pages

14 May 2019

The inconsistencies of passenger flow volume between stations’ peak hours and cities’ peak hours have emerged as a phenomenon in various cities worldwide. Passenger flow forecasting at planning stages can only predict passenger flow volum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,884 Views
13 Pages

18 November 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced the mobility of urban residents on an international level. Tourist air traffic was suspended as one of many activities. As a result, the aviation industry has suffered losses at various levels. In addition to carrier...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,429 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
12 Citations
8,661 Views
16 Pages

14 December 2017

The ever-increasing air traffic demand in China has brought huge pressure on the planning and management of, and investment in, air terminals as well as airline companies. In this context, accurate and adequate short-term air traffic forecasting is e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,016 Views
18 Pages

Low-Carbon Impact of Urban Rail Transit Based on Passenger Demand Forecast in Baoji

  • Na Zhang,
  • Zijia Wang,
  • Feng Chen,
  • Jingni Song,
  • Jianpo Wang and
  • Yu Li

11 February 2020

There are increasing traffic pollution issues in the process of urbanization in many countries; urban rail transit is low-carbon and widely regarded as an effective way to solve such problems. The passenger flow proportion of different transportation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,966 Views
25 Pages

Modeling the Propagation of Infectious Diseases across the Air Transport Network: A Bayesian Approach

  • Pablo Quirós Corte,
  • Javier Cano,
  • Eduardo Sánchez Ayra,
  • Chaitanya Joshi and
  • Víctor Fernando Gómez Comendador

19 April 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, continues to impact the world even three years after its outbreak. International border closures and health alerts severely affected the air transport industry, resulting in substantial financial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,935 Views
16 Pages

13 April 2023

The short-term bus passenger flow prediction of each bus line in a transit network is the basis of real-time cross-line bus dispatching, which ensures the efficient utilization of bus vehicle resources. As bus passengers transfer between different li...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,186 Views
24 Pages

9 April 2024

Urban air mobility (UAM) is a transformative mode of air transportation system technology that is targeted to carry passengers and goods in and around urban areas using electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. UAM operations are inten...

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