Accurately predicting bus bunching during the operation phase can pave the way to improving transit service quality. This paper proposes a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network model for predicting bus headway at downstream stops based on Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) and Global Positioning System (GPS) data of buses at upstream stops. Then bus bunching can be forecasted through the predicted headway. The LSTM model incorporates an attention mechanism to focus its “memory” function on capturing crucial information that influences headway prediction. The proposed method, validated on a real-world bus route, can accurately identify 89 % of bus bunching events with the lowest prediction error compared to other well-established algorithms.


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    Title :

    Headway-Based Bus Bunching Prediction Using LSTM with Attention


    Contributors:
    Jiao, Jie (author) / Shen, Pengtao (author) / Zhang, Yong (author)


    Publication date :

    2023-10-28


    Size :

    1784988 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English