The Travel Time Prediction by Machine Learning Methods with Traffic Data in Chiayi City, Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Da-Jie Lin ◽  
Wei-Ling Tsao ◽  
Chih-Hsiang Yu ◽  
Hsin-Hsien Liu ◽  
Yi-Chun Chang
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Travel Time ◽  
Traffic Data ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Machine Learning Methods ◽  
Time Prediction

scholarly journals Travel time forecasting on a freeway corridor: a dynamic information fusion model based on the random forests approach

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Qiu ◽  
Wei Fan
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Travel Time ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Traffic Data ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Machine Learning Methods ◽  
Time Prediction

Purpose Metropolitan areas suffer from frequent road traffic congestion not only during peak hours but also during off-peak periods. Different machine learning methods have been used in travel time prediction, however, such machine learning methods practically face the problem of overfitting. Tree-based ensembles have been applied in various prediction fields, and such approaches usually produce high prediction accuracy by aggregating and averaging individual decision trees. The inherent advantages of these approaches not only get better prediction results but also have a good bias-variance trade-off which can help to avoid overfitting. However, the reality is that the application of tree-based integration algorithms in traffic prediction is still limited. This study aims to improve the accuracy and interpretability of the models by using random forest (RF) to analyze and model the travel time on freeways. Design/methodology/approach As the traffic conditions often greatly change, the prediction results are often unsatisfactory. To improve the accuracy of short-term travel time prediction in the freeway network, a practically feasible and computationally efficient RF prediction method for real-world freeways by using probe traffic data was generated. In addition, the variables’ relative importance was ranked, which provides an investigation platform to gain a better understanding of how different contributing factors might affect travel time on freeways. Findings The parameters of the RF model were estimated by using the training sample set. After the parameter tuning process was completed, the proposed RF model was developed. The features’ relative importance showed that the variables (travel time 15 min before) and time of day (TOD) contribute the most to the predicted travel time result. The model performance was also evaluated and compared against the extreme gradient boosting method and the results indicated that the RF always produces more accurate travel time predictions. Originality/value This research developed an RF method to predict the freeway travel time by using the probe vehicle-based traffic data and weather data. Detailed information about the input variables and data pre-processing were presented. To measure the effectiveness of proposed travel time prediction algorithms, the mean absolute percentage errors were computed for different observation segments combined with different prediction horizons ranging from 15 to 60 min.

Managing Spatial Graph Dependencies in Large Volumes of Traffic Data for Travel-Time Prediction

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 1678-1687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasios Salamanis ◽  
Dionysios D. Kehagias ◽  
Christos K. Filelis-Papadopoulos ◽  
Dimitrios Tzovaras ◽  
George A. Gravvanis
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Traffic Data ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Time Prediction ◽  
Spatial Graph

scholarly journals Travel Time Prediction in a Multimodal Freight Transport Relation Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Logistics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Servos ◽  
Xiaodi Liu ◽  
Michael Teucke ◽  
Michael Freitag
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Travel Time ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Tracking Data ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Adaptive Boosting ◽  
Time Prediction ◽  
The Usa

Accurate travel time prediction is of high value for freight transports, as it allows supply chain participants to increase their logistics quality and efficiency. It requires both sufficient input data, which can be generated, e.g., by mobile sensors, and adequate prediction methods. Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are well suited to solve non-linear and complex relationships in the collected tracking data. Despite that, only a minority of recent publications use ML for travel time prediction in multimodal transports. We apply the ML algorithms extremely randomized trees (ExtraTrees), adaptive boosting (AdaBoost), and support vector regression (SVR) to this problem because of their ability to deal with low data volumes and their low processing times. Using different combinations of features derived from the data, we have built several models for travel time prediction. Tracking data from a real-world multimodal container transport relation from Germany to the USA are used for evaluation of the established models. We show that SVR provides the best prediction accuracy, with a mean absolute error of 17 h for a transport time of up to 30 days. We also show that our model performs better than average-based approaches.

scholarly journals Machine Learning Based Short-Term Travel Time Prediction: Numerical Results and Comparative Analyses

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7454
Author(s):  
Bo Qiu ◽  
Wei (David) Fan
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Travel Time ◽  
Numerical Results ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Prediction Algorithm ◽  
Gradient Boosting ◽  
Travel Time Prediction ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Time Prediction ◽  
Extreme Gradient Boosting

Due to the increasing traffic volume in metropolitan areas, short-term travel time prediction (TTP) can be an important and useful tool for both travelers and traffic management. Accurate and reliable short-term travel time prediction can greatly help vehicle routing and congestion mitigation. One of the most challenging tasks in TTP is developing and selecting the most appropriate prediction algorithm using the available data. In this study, the travel time data was provided and collected from the Regional Integrated Transportation Information System (RITIS). Then, the travel times were predicted for short horizons (ranging from 15 to 60 min) on the selected freeway corridors by applying four different machine learning algorithms, which are Decision Trees (DT), Random Forest (RF), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), and Long Short-Term Memory neural network (LSTM). Many spatial and temporal characteristics that may affect travel time were used when developing the models. The performance of prediction accuracy and reliability are compared. Numerical results suggest that RF can achieve a better prediction performance result than any of the other methods not only in accuracy but also with stability.

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