Traffic speed is one of the most important quantities for travel information systems. Accurate speed forecasting can help in trip planning by allowing travelers to avoid the congested routes, either by choosing the alternative routes or by changing the departure time. It is also helpful for traffic monitoring, control, and planning. An important feature of traffic is that it consists of free flow and congested regimes, which have significantly different properties. Training a single traffic speed predictor for both regimes typically results in suboptimal accuracy. To address this problem, a mixture of experts algorithm which consists of two regime-specific linear predictors and a decision tree gating function was developed. A generalized expectation maximization algorithm was used to train the linear predictors and the decision tree. The proposed algorithm was evaluated on a 5-mile stretch of I35 highway in Minneapolis containing 10 single loop detector stations, with prediction horizons ranging from 5 minutes to one hour ahead. Experimental results showed that mixture of experts approach outperforms several popular benchmark approaches.


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    Title :

    Traffic speed forecasting by mixture of experts


    Contributors:
    Coric, V. (author) / Zhuang Wang, (author) / Vucetic, S. (author)


    Publication date :

    2011-10-01


    Size :

    850854 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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