A hybrid model for forecasting local traffic parameters

Heidrun Belzner, Klaus Bogenberger, Ronald Kates

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Abstract

Predicting traffic is certainly one of the greatest challenges facing current traffic engineering research. The work presented here focuses on the prediction of local traffic parameters such as the local mean speed aggregated over short periods such as one minute. For this purpose a new hybrid model comprising an ARIMA1 model and a neural network has been developed and validated with real traffic data. This model has been evaluated and compared with conventional methods of traffic prediction using independent real test data. It was found that the new hybrid model produces more accurate and more reliable results than conventional methods.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)269-273
Number of pages5
JournalIFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
Volume36
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003
Externally publishedYes
Event10th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems 2003 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 4 Aug 20036 Aug 2003

Keywords

  • ARIMA models
  • Backpropagation algorithms
  • Forecasts
  • Neural networks
  • Stochastic realization

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