Public transportation is quite important in Istanbul whose population is growing continuously. Similar to other types of public transportation, the number of passengers transported by marine vessels increases each year. In order to fulfill this increasing demand for transportation of people, maritime transportation should be administrated and developed efficiently. Decisions on investments and projections for the capacities of the lines should be well planned by considering the total number of passengers and the variations in the demand on the lines. The success of such planning is directly related to the correct estimation of the number of passengers in each line. In this study, passenger demand prediction was performed for a fast ferries company, one of the maritime companies in the world carrying highest number of passengers. Within this scope, for different lines, by using Artificial Neural Network and Support Vector Machine methods, total annual number of passengers were estimated and the success of the prediction models were analyzed.
Primary Language | English |
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Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | April 19, 2016 |
Published in Issue | Year 2016 Volume: 8 Issue: 1 |