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CCP: 104
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 193

Comparison of Sarima-Ann and Sarima-Kalman Methods for Railway Passenger Flow Forecasting

M. Milenkovic1, N. Bojovic1, N. Glišovic2 and R. Nuhodzic3

1Division for Management in Railway, Rolling stock and Traction, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
2Department for Mathematical Sciences, State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia
3Railway Infrastructure of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
, "Comparison of Sarima-Ann and Sarima-Kalman Methods for Railway Passenger Flow Forecasting", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 193, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.104.193
Keywords: railways, passenger service, forecasting, SARIMA, artificial neural networks, Kalman filtering.

Summary
For future planning purposes, every industry must have a flow of information concerning the expected demand for its product. In the case of railways, both the capacities to be used and the expected total revenue depend on the level of future rail passenger traffic, so that the railways have a crucial need for forecasts of their passenger traffic. Based on Time Series, Kalman Filter and Artificial Neural Networks, in this paper, two hybrid methods are proposed for railway passenger flow forecasting. In SARIMA-ANN model, the SARIMA model is used to decide the structure of an ANN model. In hybrid SARIMA-Kalman model, the SARIMA model is utilized to initialize the Kalman state and measurement equations for a Kalman model. Forecasting results of presented models are compared and they demonstrate the capability and effectiveness of the proposed models that can assist managers to better predict rail passenger demand.

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