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Traffic Flow Prediction With Big Data: A Deep Learning Approach

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Zhengxi Li, and

Fei-Yue WangAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Volume 16, Issue 2

Pages 865 - 873

https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2014.2345663

Published: 27 March 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Accurate and timely traffic flow information is important for the successful deployment of intelligent transportation systems. Over the last few years, traffic data have been exploding, and we have truly entered the era of big data for transportation. Existing traffic flow prediction methods mainly use shallow traffic prediction models and are still unsatisfying for many real-world applications. This situation inspires us to rethink the traffic flow prediction problem based on deep architecture models with big traffic data. In this paper, a novel deep-learning-based traffic flow prediction method is proposed, which considers the spatial and temporal correlations inherently. A stacked autoencoder model is used to learn generic traffic flow features, and it is trained in a greedy layerwise fashion. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that a deep architecture model is applied using autoencoders as building blocks to represent traffic flow features for prediction. Moreover, experiments demonstrate that the proposed method for traffic flow prediction has superior performance.

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