With the advent of route guidance systems (RGS), the prediction of short-term link travel times has become increasingly important. For RGS to be successful, the calculated routes should be based on not only historical and real-time link travel time information but also anticipatory link travel time information. An examination is conducted on how realtime information gathered as part of intelligent transportation systems can be used to predict link travel times for one through five time periods (of 5 minutes’ duration). The methodology developed consists of two steps. First, the historical link travel times are classified based on an unsupervised clustering technique. Second, an individual or modular artificial neural network (ANN) is calibrated for each class, and each modular ANN is then used to predict link travel times. Actual link travel times from Houston, Texas, collected as part of the automatic vehicle identification system of the Houston Transtar system were used as a test bed. It was found that the modular ANN outperformed a conventional singular ANN. The results of the best modular ANN were compared with existing link travel time techniques, including a Kalman filtering model, an exponential smoothing model, a historical profile, and a real-time profile, and it was found that the modular ANN gave the best overall results.


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    Title :

    Forecasting Multiple-Period Freeway Link Travel Times Using Modular Neural Networks


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


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    Publication date :

    1998-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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