Abstract
Smart transportation technologies require real-time traffic prediction to be both fast and scalable to full urban networks. We discuss a method that is able to meet this challenge while accounting for nonlinear traffic dynamics and space-time dependencies of traffic variables. Nonlinearity is taken into account by a union of non-overlapping linear regimes characterized by a sequence of temporal thresholds. In each regime, for each measurement location, a penalized estimation scheme, namely the adaptive absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), is implemented to perform model selection and coefficient estimation simultaneously. Both the robust to outliers least absolute deviation estimates and conventional LASSO estimates are considered. The methodology is illustrated on 5-minute average speed data from three highway networks.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 297-315 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- adaptive LASSO
- real-time predictions
- threshold regressions
- traffic forecasting
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Modeling and Simulation
- General Business, Management and Accounting
- Management Science and Operations Research