{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/estimating-train-delays-in-a-large-rail","title":"Estimating Train Delays in a Large Rail Network Using a Zero Shot Markov Model","arxiv_id":"1806.02825","date":"2018-06-07","proceeding":null,"authors":["Ramashish Gaurav","Biplav Srivastava"],"abstract":"India runs the fourth largest railway transport network size carrying over 8\nbillion passengers per year. However, the travel experience of passengers is\nfrequently marked by delays, i.e., late arrival of trains at stations, causing\ninconvenience. In a first, we study the systemic delays in train arrivals using\nn-order Markov frameworks and experiment with two regression based models.\nUsing train running-status data collected for two years, we report on an\nefficient algorithm for estimating delays at railway stations with near\naccurate results. This work can help railways to manage their resources, while\nalso helping passengers and businesses served by them to efficiently plan their\nactivities.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02825v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02825v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"estimating-train-delays-in-a-large-rail","repo_url":"https://github.com/R-Gaurav/train-delay-estimation","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"estimating-train-delays-in-a-large-rail","repo_url":"https://github.com/R-Gaurav/train-delay-estimation-ITSC2018","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"regression-1","task_name":"regression"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}