AN ADAPTIVE SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING FREEWAY TRAVEL TIMES

Chung-Cheng Jason Lu ()
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Chung-Cheng Jason Lu: Graduate Institute of Information and Logistics Management, National Taipei University of Technology, 1 Section 3, Chung-Hsiao E. Road, Taipei, 10608, Taiwan

International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), 2012, vol. 11, issue 04, 727-747

Abstract: This paper presents an adaptive system that embeds a Bayesian inference-based dynamic model (BDM) for predicting real-time travel time on a freeway corridor. Bayesian forecasting is a learning process that revises sequentially the state ofa prioriknowledge of travel time based on newly available information. The prediction result is a posterior travel time distribution that can be employed to generate a single-value (typically but not necessarily the mean) travel time as well as a confidence interval representing the uncertainty of travel time prediction. To better track travel time fluctuations during nonrecurrent congestion due to unforeseen events (e.g., incidents, accidents, or bad weather), the BDM is integrated into an adaptive control framework that can automatically learn and adjust the system evolution noise level. The experimental results based on real loop detector data of a freeway stretch in Northern Taiwan suggest that the proposed method is able to provide accurate and reliable travel time prediction under both recurrent and nonrecurrent traffic conditions.

Keywords: Adaptive system; travel time prediction; Bayesian forecasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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