Research Article

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

Table 3

weekend performance comparison for one-step prediction.

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

September 1, Saturday, 2012 at Sanshanjie Station

SARIMA44.1733.5017.07
BPNN30.9924.3512.60
SVM30.8124.2012.53
SVMOOL29.6823.3212.03
SVMPOL32.3326.2015.20
SVMCOL27.1122.5212.23

April 7, Saturday, 2012 at Zhujianglu Station

SARIMA46.9834.6517.91
BPNN30.6723.4116.84
SVM30.6623.4316.85
SVMOOL30.2523.0416.51
SVMPOL32.0425.6021.75
SVMCOL28.5121.6117.56

May 5, Saturday, 2012 at Zhujianglu Station

SARIMA52.0933.2918.69
BPNN30.0222.7815.48
SVM31.4823.2915.63
SVMOOL29.7122.5315.32
SVMPOL31.8823.8318.87
SVMCOL27.8921.2515.64