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Jing ZUOThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Zhao YU, Ming HE, and Guoyan LIU

School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou Gansu 730070, China


 

Received: November 8, 2023
Accepted: March 21, 2024
Publication Date: April 16, 2024

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The imbalance of temporal and spatial distribution of passenger flow under network conditions occurs from time to time, which brings great challenges to the operation of urban rail transit system, and the effective prediction of short-time passenger flow status of trains is of great significance to optimize the transportation strategy of line network and meet the real-time passenger flow demand. To this end, a short-time passenger flow prediction model for urban rail trains based on GCN-AMBiLSTM model is proposed. Firstly, a rail traffic timing map is established to capture the global spatial correlation features of different levels of neighbouring stations using graph convolutional neural network; secondly, an attention mechanism is introduced into the bidirectional long and short-term memory neural network, and the AMBiLSTM module is constructed to extract and assign the importance of train passenger flow timing features from the forward and backward dimensions. Finally, based on the feature fusion network, the temporal and spatial features are integrated and the prediction results are output. Based on the Chengdu Metro, the model is tested, and the results show that compared with several baseline models, the model in this paper achieves the optimal values of root mean square error, average absolute error and average absolute percentage error, and the predicted values have a high degree of fit with the actual passenger flow values, and the prediction efficiency can fully satisfy the timeliness requirements of the field, which has a good application prospect.


Keywords: Urban rail transit; Passenger flow; Deep neural networks; Spatiotemporal characteristics; Attention mechanisms


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