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Subject: Tiberius wins BI CUP 2006 time series forecasting competition

The competition task was:

A public transportation company is expecting increasing demand for its services and is planning to acquire new buses and to extend its terminals. These investments require a reliable forecast of future demand which should be based on historic demand stored in the company’s data warehouse. For each 15-minute interval between 6:30 hours and 22 hours the number of passengers arriving at the terminal has been recorded and stored. As a forecasting consultant you have been asked to forecast the number of passengers arriving at the terminal.

Results:

Tiberius won this competition outright, using the time series capabilities

See www.tiberius.biz/accuracy.html


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