Final Project

Traffic Flow Prediction

Licheng QU
School of Information Engineering
University of Changan
Task: Traffic Flow Prediction
• Read the literature on traffic flow forecasting
• Summarize the latest prediction algorithms by category
• Propose your own predictive model (using deep learning)
• Download public data sets
• Train and optimize the model
• Test and analyze the accuracy, sensitivity and robustness of the model
• Compare the performance of your model with other novel algorithms (optinal)
• Prepare the report in Jupyter Notebook and submit it in PDF format before July
10th.
Chapter of Report
• Introduction (20 points)
• Methodology (30 points)
• Test Result and Analysis (30 points)
• Conclusion (10 points)
• References (10 points)
References
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[2] LeCun Y, Bengio Y, Hinton G. Deep learning[J]. Nature, 2015, 521(7553):436.
[3] Ma X, Tao Z, Wang Y, et al. Long short-term memory neural network for traffic speed prediction using
remote microwave sensor data[J]. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2015, 54: 187-197.
[4] Song X, Li W, Ma D, et al. A match‐then‐predict method for daily traffic flow forecasting based on group
method of data handling[J]. Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 2018, 33(11): 982-998
[5] Cui Z, Ke R, Pu Z, et al. Deep bidirectional and unidirectional LSTM recurrent neural network for network-
wide traffic speed prediction[J]. arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02143, 2018.
[6] Qu LC, Li W, Li WJ, et al. Daily long-term traffic flow forecasting based on a deep neural network[J].
Expert systems with applications, 2019, 121: 304-312.
[7] Qu LC, Zhang MH, Li ZL, and Li W. Temporal backtracking and multi-step delay prediction of traffic speed
time series[J]. Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2020, 2020: 8899478.
[8] Qu LC, Lyu J, Li W, et al. Features Injected Recurrent Neural Networks for Short-term Traffic Speed
Prediction[J]. Neurocomputing, 2021
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