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Passenger demand forecasting

Anticipate passengers by route, station, flight, departure, and fare class.

Sound familiar?

  • Full services turning passengers away while others run near empty
  • Crowding discovered on the platform, not in the plan
  • Disruptions that redistribute demand faster than operations can react
Target: Passenger journeysHorizon: Hours–26 weeks

Passenger journeys

passengers / hour · Live forecast

Updated
12K3KHISTORYFORECASTSeat capacityHourly or dailyHours–26 weeks ahead
Median forecast with uncertainty band

Driver

Bookings

Driver

Searches

Driver

Schedule

Forecast horizon

Hours–26 weeks

Refresh cadence

Hourly or daily

Built for

Network planning · Revenue management

What you can predict

One forecast can answer several operational questions.

Use bookings, searches, service schedules, fares, weather, events, and disruption history to predict load and crowding throughout the network.

01

Passengers by service

02

Load factor

03

Station entries

04

Crowding risk

Questions teams need answered

  • Which services will be full?
  • Where will crowding occur?
  • How much demand will shift after disruption?
  • Which departures need more capacity?

Data that can improve the forecast

BookingsSearchesScheduleFaresWeatherEvents

Start with the history you already have. Add internal or external drivers only when backtesting shows that they improve the forecast on held-out periods.

What-if planning

Test a change before committing to it.

Compare a proposed change with the current baseline. See the expected direction, timing, range, and the assumptions behind the result.

Add capacity to a departure

Estimate displaced demand and load factors

A route is disrupted

Forecast passenger redistribution

Passenger journeys

passengers / hour · Scenario comparison

Updated

What if

Add capacity to a departure?

12K3KHISTORYFORECASTSeat capacityHourly or dailyHours–26 weeks ahead
BaselineAdded capacity

Driver

Bookings

Driver

Searches

Driver

Schedule

From forecast to action

Keep the people making the decision in the loop.

01 · MONITOR

Forecast continuously

Refresh passenger journeys on a hourly or daily cadence as new data arrives.

02 · NOTIFY

Alert on meaningful changes

  • Passenger demand exceeds capacity
  • Crowding risk crosses a threshold

03 · DECIDE

Put the result to work

Fleet assignmentTimetable changesPricingStation staffing

Build a passenger demand forecast with your data.

Start with sample data, connect your own history, or talk with us about your target, horizon, and production requirements.