A Two-Stage Self-adaptive Model for Passenger Flow Prediction on Schedule-Based Railway System

Publisher:
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
Publication Type:
Conference Proceeding
Citation:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2022, 13282 LNAI, pp. 147-160
Issue Date:
2022-01-01
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Platform-level passenger flow prediction is crucial for addressing the overcrowding problem on platforms that endangered the passengers’ safety and experience in railway systems. Although some studies exist on this topic, it remains difficult to apply these methods in the real world e.g., the data deficiency in older railway systems, potential impacts of dynamic interchange passenger flows, real-time predictive ability. Thus, we propose a two-stage self-adaptive model for accurately and timely predicting platform-level flow. In the first stage, a self-attention-based prediction model is introduced to predict the next-day passenger flow based on the historical boarding record. The proposed decomposing components transferring the discrete boarding records into continuous patterns make the module able to deliver a robust minute-level prediction. In the second stage, a real-time fine-tuning model is developed to adjust the predicted flow based on the real-time emergencies in passenger flows. The combination of offline deep learning mechanism and real-time reallocation algorithm ensures the real-time response without loss of accuracy. The experiments show that our model can offer accurate predictions to trip planners for timetable design and provide timely decision support for controllers when emergencies happen, and our end-to-end framework has been applied to the railway system in Sydney, Australia.
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