Research Article

Forecasting of Short-Term Metro Ridership with Support Vector Machine Online Model

Table 2

Weekday and weekend performance comparison for one-step prediction.

ModelRMSE (ridership/5-min)MAE (ridership/5-min)MAPE (%)

November 27, Tuesday, 2012 at Sanshanjie Station

SARIMA23.5218.3811.00
BPNN34.8426.8215.99
SVM34.8526.8215.93
SVMOOL34.7526.7315.89
SVMPOL45.2932.8220.48
SVMCOL36.5026.3116.52

April 5, Thursday, 2012 at Zhujianglu Station

SARIMA25.3819.0511.79
BPNN33.8423.5313.89
SVM33.7823.5813.93
SVMOOL33.6823.4113.81
SVMPOL57.7532.8617.90
SVMCOL41.3125.7614.58

May 3, Thursday, 2012 at Zhujianglu Station

SARIMA25.7218.4611.70
BPNN39.0526.9915.09
SVM39.1827.1015.13
SVMOOL38.8826.8014.62
SVMPOL58.4532.0215.92
SVMCOL40.0627.4115.26