scholarly journals Improving Coverage Rate for Urban Link Travel Time Prediction Using Probe Data in the Low Penetration Rate Environment

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Ruotian Tang ◽  
Ryo Kanamori ◽  
Toshiyuki Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Penetration Rate ◽  
Coverage Rate ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Time Prediction ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Link Travel Time

Short-term travel time prediction is an important consideration in modern traffic control and management systems. As probe data technology has developed, research interest has moved from highways to urban roads. Most research has only focused on improving the prediction accuracy on urban roads because it is the key index of evaluating a model. However, the low penetration rate of probe vehicles at urban networks may result in the low coverage rate which restricts prediction models from practical applications. This research proposed a non-parametric model based on Bayes’ theorem and a resampling process to predict short-term urban link travel time, which can enhance the coverage rate while maintaining the prediction accuracy. The proposed model used data from vehicles in both the target link and its crossing direction, so its coverage rate can be expanded, especially when the data penetration rate is low. In addition, the utilization of relationships between vehicles in both directions can reflect the influence of signal timing. The proposed model was evaluated in a computer simulation to test its robustness and reliability under different data penetration rates. The results implied that the proposed model has a high coverage rate, demonstrating stable and acceptable performance at different penetration rates.

scholarly journals A hybrid method for short-term freeway travel time prediction based on wavelet neural network and Markov chain

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hang Yang ◽  
Yajie Zou ◽  
Zhongyu Wang ◽  
Bing Wu
Keyword(s):  
Markov Chain ◽  
Travel Time ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Time Prediction ◽  
Travel Time Data ◽  
Forecasting Performance ◽  
Fitting Problem

Short-term travel time prediction is an essential input to intelligent transportation systems. Timely and accurate traffic forecasting is necessary for advanced traffic management systems and advanced traveler information systems. Despite several short-term travel time prediction approaches have been proposed in the past decade, especially for hybrid models that consist of machine learning models and statistical models, few studies focus on the over-fitting problem brought by hybrid models. The over-fitting problem deteriorates the prediction accuracy especially during peak hours. This paper proposes a hybrid model that embraces wavelet neural network (WNN), Markov chain (MAR), and the volatility (VOA) model for short-term travel time prediction in a freeway system. The purpose of this paper is to provide deeper insights into underlining dynamic traffic patterns and to improve the prediction accuracy and robustness. The method takes periodical analysis, error correction, and noise extraction into consideration and improve the forecasting performance in peak hours. The proposed methodology predicts travel time by decomposing travel time data into three components: a periodic trend presented by a modified WNN, a residual part modeled by Markov chain, and the volatility part estimated by the modified generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity model. Forecasting performance is investigated with freeway travel time data from Houston, Texas and examined by three measures: mean absolute error, mean absolute percentage error, and root mean square error. The results show that the travel times predicted by the WNN-MAR-VOA method are robust and accurate. Meanwhile, the proposed method is able to capture the underlying periodic characteristics and volatility nature of travel time data.

scholarly journals Short-Term Urban Link Travel Time Prediction Using Dynamic Time Warping With Disaggregate Probe Data

IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 98959-98970
Author(s):  
Ruotian Tang ◽  
Ryo Kanamori ◽  
Toshiyuki Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Dynamic Time Warping ◽  
Time Warping ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Time Prediction ◽  
Dynamic Time ◽  
Link Travel Time

scholarly journals The Use of a Machine Learning Method to Predict the Real-Time Link Travel Time of Open-Pit Trucks

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Sun ◽  
Hang Zhang ◽  
Fengliang Tian ◽  
Lei Yang
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Travel Time ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Open Pit Mines ◽  
Optimal Dispatch ◽  
Link Travel Time

Accurate truck travel time prediction (TTP) is one of the critical factors in the dynamic optimal dispatch of open-pit mines. This study divides the roads of open-pit mines into two types: fixed and temporary link roads. The experiment uses data obtained from Fushun West Open-pit Mine (FWOM) to train three types of machine learning (ML) prediction models based on k-nearest neighbors (kNN), support vector machine (SVM), and random forest (RF) algorithms for each link road. The results show that the TTP models based on SVM and RF are better than that based on kNN. The prediction accuracy calculated in this study is approximately 15.79% higher than that calculated by traditional methods. Meteorological features added to the TTP model improved the prediction accuracy by 5.13%. Moreover, this study uses the link rather than the route as the minimum TTP unit, and the former shows an increase in prediction accuracy of 11.82%.

scholarly journals Examining the Impact of Different Periodic Functions on Short-Term Freeway Travel Time Prediction Approaches

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Xu Miao ◽  
Bing Wu ◽  
Yajie Zou ◽  
Lingtao Wu
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Travel Time ◽  
Statistical Models ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Periodic Functions ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Time Prediction ◽  
Machine Learning Models

Freeway travel time prediction is a key technology of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Many scholars have found that periodic function plays a positive role in improving the prediction accuracy of travel time prediction models. However, very few studies have comprehensively evaluated the impacts of different periodic functions on statistical and machine learning models. In this paper, our primary objective is to evaluate the performance of the six commonly used multistep ahead travel time prediction models (three statistical models and three machine learning models). In addition, we compared the impacts of three periodic functions on multistep ahead travel time prediction for different temporal scales (5-minute, 10-minute, and 15-minute). The results indicate that the periodic functions can improve the prediction performance of machine learning models for more than 60 minutes ahead prediction and improve the over 30 minutes ahead prediction accuracy for statistical models. Three periodic functions show a slight difference in improving the prediction accuracy of the six prediction models. For the same prediction step, the effect of the periodic function is more obvious at a higher level of aggregation.

scholarly journals Dynamic Bus Travel Time Prediction Models on Road with Multiple Bus Routes

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong Bai ◽  
Zhong-Ren Peng ◽  
Qing-Chang Lu ◽  
Jian Sun
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Kalman Filtering ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Travel Times ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
Time Prediction ◽  
Bus Travel Time

Accurate and real-time travel time information for buses can help passengers better plan their trips and minimize waiting times. A dynamic travel time prediction model for buses addressing the cases on road with multiple bus routes is proposed in this paper, based on support vector machines (SVMs) and Kalman filtering-based algorithm. In the proposed model, the well-trained SVM model predicts the baseline bus travel times from the historical bus trip data; the Kalman filtering-based dynamic algorithm can adjust bus travel times with the latest bus operation information and the estimated baseline travel times. The performance of the proposed dynamic model is validated with the real-world data on road with multiple bus routes in Shenzhen, China. The results show that the proposed dynamic model is feasible and applicable for bus travel time prediction and has the best prediction performance among all the five models proposed in the study in terms of prediction accuracy on road with multiple bus routes.

A space–time diurnal method for short-term freeway travel time prediction

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 33-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yajie Zou ◽  
Xinxin Zhu ◽  
Yunlong Zhang ◽  
Xiaosi Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Time Prediction

Freeway Short-Term Travel Time Prediction Based on Dynamic Tensor Completion

2015 ◽  
Vol 2489 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huachun Tan ◽  
Qin Li ◽  
Yuankai Wu ◽  
Wuhong Wang ◽  
Bin Ran
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Tensor Completion ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Time Prediction
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