Title
An AutoEncoder and LSTM-Based Traffic Flow Prediction Method.
Abstract
Smart cities can effectively improve the quality of urban life. Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is an important part of smart cities. The accurate and real-time prediction of traffic flow plays an important role in ITSs. To improve the prediction accuracy, we propose a novel traffic flow prediction method, called AutoEncoder Long Short-Term Memory (AE-LSTM) prediction method. In our method, the AutoEncoder is used to obtain the internal relationship of traffic flow by extracting the characteristics of upstream and downstream traffic flow data. Moreover, the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network utilizes the acquired characteristic data and the historical data to predict complex linear traffic flow data. The experimental results show that the AE-LSTM method had higher prediction accuracy. Specifically, the Mean Relative Error (MRE) of the AE-LSTM was reduced by 0.01 compared with the previous prediction methods. In addition, AE-LSTM method also had good stability. For different stations and different dates, the prediction error and fluctuation of the AE-LSTM method was small. Furthermore, the average MRE of AE-LSTM prediction results was 0.06 for six different days.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19132946
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
AutoEncoder,long short-term memory,traffic flow prediction
Data mining,Mean squared prediction error,Autoencoder,Traffic flow,Long short term memory,Electronic engineering,Intelligent transportation system,Engineering,Approximation error
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
13
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.45
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wangyang Wei1445.95
Honghai Wu2274.24
Huadong Ma32020179.93