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Empirical Study of a Multi-Factor Subway Passenger Flow Forecasting Method
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Xuanchuan ZHENG1, Yong QIN2, Jianyuan GUO1, Xin TONG3, Xiaolin HUANG4
Urban Rapid Rail Transit | 2025, 38(5) : 57 - 63
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Empirical Study of a Multi-Factor Subway Passenger Flow Forecasting Method
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Xuanchuan ZHENG1, Yong QIN2, Jianyuan GUO1, Xin TONG3, Xiaolin HUANG4
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  • 1.School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044
  • 2.State Key Laboratory of Advanced Rail Autonomous Operation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044
  • 3.Beijing Urban construction Design and Development Group Co., Ltd., Beijing 100037
  • 4.Operating Branch, Xi'an Rail Transit Group Co., Ltd., Xi'an 710016
Published: 2025-10-10 doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6073.2025.05.008
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To address multi-factor subway line passenger volume forecasting needs, 12 influential features are selected (time, weather, network scale, urban development, holidays, and events) via feature mining and correlation analysis, and—targeting the difficulty of XGBoost hyperparameter tuning—a hyperparameter optimization approach based on the Zebra Optimization Algorithm (ZOA) is proposed. An XGBoost-ZOA integrated forecasting model is developed, a cross-validation scheme tailored for time-series prediction is designed, and a case study is conducted using Xi'an Metro data. The ZOA-optimized model achieves a MAPE of 3.85% on the Line 1 test set; compared with representative intelligent optimization algorithms, it yields the best performance, confirming the algorithm's superiority. Across nine lines, the XGBoost-ZOA model attains an average MAPE of 5.18%, with the maximum error below 7%, and the predicted and actual curves show a high degree of agreement. Compared with SARIMA and LSTM, the MAPE decreases by 17.8% and 21.9%, and the RMSE decreases by 10.8% and 13.6%, respectively. Finally, using feature importance, the nine lines were grouped into three categories: trend-driven, holiday/activity-driven, and multi-factor balanced passenger flows. Lines dominated by holidays/activities exhibit larger prediction errors, whereas those governed by periodic trends show smaller errors, confirming the model's interpretability and practical utility.

urban rail transit  /  multi-factor passenger flow forecasting  /  XGBoost  /  zebra optimization algorithm  /  hyperparameter optimization  /  feature importance
郑宣传, 秦勇, 郭建媛, 佟鑫, 黄小林. 基于多因素分析的地铁客流预测方法实证研究. 都市快轨交通, 2025 , 38 (5) : 57 -63 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6073.2025.05.008
Xuanchuan ZHENG, Yong QIN, Jianyuan GUO, Xin TONG, Xiaolin HUANG. Empirical Study of a Multi-Factor Subway Passenger Flow Forecasting Method[J]. Urban Rapid Rail Transit, 2025 , 38 (5) : 57 -63 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6073.2025.05.008
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doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6073.2025.05.008
  • Receive Date:2025-04-08
  • Online Date:2026-10-19
  • Published:2025-10-10
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  • Received:2025-04-08
  • Revised:2025-07-07
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    1.School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044
    2.State Key Laboratory of Advanced Rail Autonomous Operation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044
    3.Beijing Urban construction Design and Development Group Co., Ltd., Beijing 100037
    4.Operating Branch, Xi'an Rail Transit Group Co., Ltd., Xi'an 710016
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