Title
Tunable and Transferable RBF Model for Short-Term Traffic Forecasting
Abstract
The application of short-term traffic forecasting can guide the operation of traffic networks efficiently and reduce the traffic cost for travelers. On the basis of radial basis function (RBF) neural network, this paper introduces a tunable and transferable RBF (TT-RBF) model to conduct on-line forecasting and transfer forecasting. Considering the spatiotemporal correlation of traffic flows in a road network, a spatiotemporal state matrix formed by the detrended cross-correlation analysis is used for the model input. With the on-line forecasting process, an improved on-line structure and parameter adjustment are proposed to enhance the existing model. Thus, the TT-RBF model can be adaptive to time-varying traffic states, especially to deal with the difference between non-peak and peak hours. Moreover, the proposed model can be transferred from one road segment to act on other road segments. By this way, the traffic states of numerous road segments can be forecasted conveniently without complex model training processes. The floating car data of a typical road network in Beijing are used for the performance verification of the TT-RBF model, and some frequently used forecasting models are selected for comparisons. The numerical experiments show that the TT-RBF model can get more accurate results than those in single-step forecasting, multi-step forecasting, and transfer forecasting.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/tits.2018.2882814
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Roads,Forecasting,Predictive models,Correlation,Spatiotemporal phenomena,Adaptation models,Time series analysis
Data mining,Time series,Radial basis function,Matrix (mathematics),Simulation,Floating car data,Engineering,Artificial neural network,Beijing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
11
1524-9050
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pinlong Cai110.35
Yunpeng Wang219425.34
Guangquan Lu3255.18