scholarly journals Short-term Traffic Flow Prediction Based on Genetic Artificial Neural Network and Exponential Smoothing

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 747-760
Author(s):  
Changxi Ma ◽  
Limin Tan ◽  
Xuecai Xu

In order to improve the accuracy of short-term traffic flow prediction, a combined model composed of artificial neural network optimized by using Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Exponential Smoothing (ES) has been proposed. By using the metaheuristic optimal search ability of GA, the connection weight and threshold of the feedforward neural network trained by a backpropagation algorithm are optimized to avoid the feedforward neural network falling into local optimum, and the prediction model of Genetic Artificial Neural Network (GANN) is established. An ES prediction model is presented then. In order to take the advantages of the two models, the combined model is composed of a weighted average, while the weight of the combined model is determined according to the prediction mean square error of the single model. The road traffic flow data of Xuancheng, Anhui Province with an observation interval of 5 min are used for experimental verification. Additionally, the feedforward neural network model, GANN model, ES model and combined model are compared and analysed, respectively. The results show that the prediction accuracy of the optimized feedforward neural network is much higher than that before the optimization. The prediction accuracy of the combined model is higher than that of the two single models, which verifies the feasibility and effectiveness of the combined model.

Author(s):  
Liqiang Xu ◽  
Xuedong Du ◽  
Binguo Wang

This paper introduces mind evolutionary algorithm (MEA) into the application of short-term traffic flow prediction, and proposes a short-term traffic flow prediction model of wavelet neural network based on mind evolutionary algorithm (MEA-WNN). The optimal connection weight and wavelet parameters of wavelet neural network (WNN) are searched globally by MEA, and the convergence capacity of wavelet neural network is improved. The experimental data show that, compared with the prediction model of the traditional WNN and the WNN based on genetic algorithm (GA-WNN), the prediction model of MEA-WNN has higher global prediction accuracy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Feng Yu ◽  
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Jinglong Fang ◽  
Bin Chen ◽  
Yanli Shao

Traffic flow prediction is very important for smooth road conditions in cities and convenient travel for residents. With the explosive growth of traffic flow data size, traditional machine learning algorithms cannot fit large-scale training data effectively and the deep learning algorithms do not work well because of the huge training and update costs, and the prediction accuracy may need to be further improved when an emergency affecting traffic occurs. In this study, an incremental learning based convolutional neural network model, TF-net, is proposed to achieve the efficient and accurate prediction of large-scale and short-term traffic flow. The key idea is to introduce the uncertainty features into the model without increasing the training cost to improve the prediction accuracy. Meanwhile, based on the idea of combining incremental learning with active learning, a certain percentage of typical samples in historical traffic flow data are sampled to fine-tune the prediction model, so as to further improve the prediction accuracy for special situations and ensure the real-time requirement. The experimental results show that the proposed traffic flow prediction model has better performance than the existing methods.


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