A Comparison of Traffic Flow Prediction Methods Based on DBN

Huachun Tan*, Xuan Xuan, Yuankai Wu, Zhiyu Zhong, Bin Ran

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Accurate and real-time traffic flow prediction nowadays shows more and more dependence on big transportation data. Deep learning, a powerful method for feature learning, has turned out to be an effective tool to cope with these explosive data. Recently, deep models, especially unsupervised models like deep belief networks (DBN) and stacked autoencoder (SAE), are being employed into the field of traffic research and have shown great prospect. However, there is still a vacancy in the exploration on comparing the performances of different kinds of deep architectures to find an optimal solution. In this paper, we set up two deep-learning-based traffic flow prediction models for feature extraction and performances comparison: One is a deep belief networks (DBN) based on restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) that have Gaussian visible units and binary hidden units, and the other is a DBN based on RBMs with all units being binary. A conclusion is drawn where the former one performs better in traffic flow prediction after a series of experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCICTP 2016 - Green and Multimodal Transportation and Logistics - Proceedings of the 16th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals
EditorsYing-En Ge, Xiaokun Wang, Yu Zhang, Youfang Huang
PublisherAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Pages273-283
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9780784479896
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event16th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals: Green and Multimodal Transportation and Logistics, CICTP 2016 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 6 Jul 20169 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameCICTP 2016 - Green and Multimodal Transportation and Logistics - Proceedings of the 16th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals

Conference

Conference16th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals: Green and Multimodal Transportation and Logistics, CICTP 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period6/07/169/07/16

Keywords

  • Deep Belief Networks (DBN)
  • Deep learning
  • Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBM)
  • Traffic flow prediction

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