摘要
In order to provide citizens with safe, convenient and comfortable services and infrastructure in a metropolis, the prediction of passenger flows in the metro-net of subway system has become more important than ever before. Al- though a great number of prediction methods have been pre- sented in the field of transportation, all of them belong to the station oriented approach, which is not well suited to the Bei- jing subway system. This paper proposes a novel metro-net oriented method, called the probability tree based passenger flow model, which is also based on historic origin-destination （OD） information. First it learns and obtains the appearance probabilities for each kind of OD pair. For the real-time origin datum, the destination datum is calculated, and then several kinds of passenger flow in the metro-net can be pre- dicted by gathering all the contributions. The results of exper- iments, using the historical data of Beijing subway, show that although the proposed method has lower performance than existing prediction approaches for forecasting exit passenger flows, it is able to predict several additional kinds of passen- ger flow in stations and throughout the subway system; and it is a more feasible, suitable, and advanced passenger flow prediction model for Beijing subway system.
In order to provide citizens with safe, convenient and comfortable services and infrastructure in a metropolis, the prediction of passenger flows in the metro-net of subway system has become more important than ever before. Al- though a great number of prediction methods have been pre- sented in the field of transportation, all of them belong to the station oriented approach, which is not well suited to the Bei- jing subway system. This paper proposes a novel metro-net oriented method, called the probability tree based passenger flow model, which is also based on historic origin-destination （OD） information. First it learns and obtains the appearance probabilities for each kind of OD pair. For the real-time origin datum, the destination datum is calculated, and then several kinds of passenger flow in the metro-net can be pre- dicted by gathering all the contributions. The results of exper- iments, using the historical data of Beijing subway, show that although the proposed method has lower performance than existing prediction approaches for forecasting exit passenger flows, it is able to predict several additional kinds of passen- ger flow in stations and throughout the subway system; and it is a more feasible, suitable, and advanced passenger flow prediction model for Beijing subway system.
基金
This work was supported by the National High- Tech Research and Development Plan of China （863） （2011AA010502）, the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 61103093）, the Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China （20091102110017）, the International Science ＆ Technology Cooperation Program of China （2010DFB 13350）, the Supported Project （SKLSDE-2012ZX-16） of the State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, and the Fundamen- tal Research Funds for the Central Universities. We are thankful to Bei- jing Municipal Committee of Transportation, Beijing Metro Network Con- trol Center, Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corporation Limited, and Beijing MTR Corporation for their great help.
