Highlights We analyze traffic flow using functional data analysis and use multivariate control charts for long-term monitoring. It is an analysis to test for stability in traffic behavior, to detect drifts, changes of level, and shape of traffic flow. Our method provides a reduction of data dimensionality and computational expensiveness. Our monitoring methodology was tested using simulation techniques to detect change in traffic flow, shape, and volume. We illustrate the methodology through the use of real-world data.
Abstract Functional Data Analysis (FDA) is a collection of statistical techniques for the analysis of information on curves or functions. This paper presents a new methodology for analyzing the daily traffic flow profiles based on the employment of FDA. A daily traffic profile corresponds to a single datum rather than a large set of traffic counts. This insight provides ideal information for strategic decision-making regarding road expansion, control, and other long-term decisions. Using Functional Principal Component Analysis the data are projected into a low dimensional space: the space of the first functional principal components. Each curve is represented by their vector of scores on this basis. The principal component scores are used for clustering and also to identify outliers (meaning that there was a bad performance in the recording of data or special circumstances affected the traffic) and to monitor the traffic profile by multivariate control charts. This paper introduces this new methodology and illustrates good results by using 1-min traffic data from the I-94 Freeway in the Twin Cities, Minnesota (U.S.) metroplex ranging from 2004 to 2011.
A functional approach to monitor and recognize patterns of daily traffic profiles
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological ; 65 ; 119-136
2014-04-12
18 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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