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OTHERS (INTERNATIONAL) Congestion Forecast for Trains with Railroad-Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning using Sparse Passenger Reports
Soto Anno (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kota Tsubouchi, Masamichi Shimosaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
arXiv.org (arXiv)
October 23, 2024
Forecasting rail congestion is crucial for efficient mobility in transport systems. We present rail congestion forecasting using reports from passengers collected through a transit application. Although reports from passengers have received attention from researchers, ensuring a sufficient volume of reports is challenging due to passenger’s reluctance. The limited number of reports results in the sparsity of the congestion label, which can be an issue in building a stable prediction model. To address this issue, we propose a semi-supervised method for congestion forecasting for trains, or SURCONFORT. Our key idea is twofold: firstly, we adopt semisupervised learning to leverage sparsely labeled data and many unlabeled data. Secondly, in order to complement the unlabeled data from nearby stations, we design a railway network-oriented graph and apply the graph to semi-supervised graph regularization. Empirical experiments with actual reporting data show that SURCONFORT improved the forecasting performance by 14.9% over state-of-the-art methods under the label sparsity.
Paper :
Congestion Forecast for Trains with Railroad-Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning using Sparse Passenger Reports
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