Forecasting of the Incoming Dustcarts of a Waste Transfer Station Based on SARIMA Model

The quantity forecast of incoming dustcarts in the waste transfer station is essential to enhancing the operational efficiency of smart sanitation, because it is helpful for the station management and the planning of resources. In this study, a seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model is suggested to forecast the incoming dustcarts of a waste transfer station. The dataset utilized contains both the hourly-sampled quantity and proportion of residual waste dustcarts. The outcomes of single step and multi-step forecasting are examined with different performance measures in order to confirm SARIMA’s effectiveness. The experimental results show that the SARIMA model has better prediction results compared with the LSTM model. In addition, SARIMA model has high accuracy in both single step and multi-step forecasting, but multi-step forecasting is more effective for solving real-world issues because of its less time-consuming.