Short-term traffic flow forecasting has an essential role in advanced traveler information systems, route guidance systems, and proactive traffic signal control systems. Numerous univariate and multivariate models have been presented on both traffic flow level forecasting and traffic flow variance forecasting. However, few studies have incorporated the relationship between traffic parameters (such as volume and speed) into development of the traffic flow forecasting model. It is well known that there are inherent relationships between traffic parameters and that heteroscedasticity exists in traffic flow series. On this basis a vector autoregressive plus multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) method is proposed for reliable short-term traffic flow forecasting for urban roads. The vector autoregressive model is used as the mean equation of the multivariate GARCH model for modeling traffic flow levels, and the multivariate GARCH model is used to model the conditional traffic flow variances. Actual traffic volume and speed data are used to validate and evaluate the proposed method. Results show that the proposed method can generate workable performance in forecasting accuracy and forecast confidence intervals.


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    Title :

    Reliable Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting for Urban Roads


    Subtitle :

    Multivariate Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity Approach


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record


    Contributors:
    Xia, Jingxin (author) / Nie, Qinghui (author) / Huang, Wei (author) / Qian, Zhendong (author)


    Publication date :

    2013-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English