Hybrid Extreme Learning for Reliable Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting

Huayuan Chen, Zhizhe Lin, Yamin Yao, Hai Xie, Youyi Song () and Teng Zhou
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Huayuan Chen: Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Zhizhe Lin: School of Cyberspace Security, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
Yamin Yao: Department of Computer Science, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China
Hai Xie: School of Cyberspace Security, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
Youyi Song: Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Teng Zhou: Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

Mathematics, 2024, vol. 12, issue 20, 1-15

Abstract: Reliable forecasting of short-term traffic flow is an essential component of modern intelligent transport systems. However, existing methods fail to deal with the non-linear nature of short-term traffic flow, often making the forecasting unreliable. Herein, we propose a reliable short-term traffic flow forecasting method, termed hybrid extreme learning, that effectively learns the non-linear representation of traffic flow, boosting forecasting reliability. This new algorithm probes the non-linear nature of short-term traffic data by exploiting the artificial bee colony that selects the best-implied layer deviation and input weight matrix to enhance the multi-structural information perception capability. It speeds up the forecasting time by calculating the output weight matrix, which guarantees the real usage of the forecasting method, boosting the time reliability. We extensively evaluate the proposed hybrid extreme learning method on well-known short-term traffic flow forecasting datasets. The experimental results show that our method outperforms existing methods by a large margin in both forecasting accuracy and time, effectively demonstrating the reliability improvement of the proposed method. This reliable method may open the avenue of deep learning techniques in short-term traffic flow forecasting in real scenarios.

Keywords: hybrid extreme learning; non-linear representation; artificial bee colony; short-term traffic flow forecasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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