Transfer learning for robust urban network-wide traffic volume estimation with uncertain detector deployment scheme

Real-time and accurate network-wide traffic volume estimation/detection is an essential part of urban transport system planning and management. As it is impractical to install detectors on every road segment of the city network, methods on the network-wide flow estimation based on limited detector d...

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Main Authors: Jiping Xing, Yunchi Wu, Di Huang, Xin Liu
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Language:English
Published: AIMS Press 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/era.2023011https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/era.2023011
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description Real-time and accurate network-wide traffic volume estimation/detection is an essential part of urban transport system planning and management. As it is impractical to install detectors on every road segment of the city network, methods on the network-wide flow estimation based on limited detector data are of considerable significance. However, when the plan of detector deployment is uncertain, existing methods are unsuitable to be directly used. In this study, a transfer component analysis (TCA)-based network-wide volume estimation model, considering the different traffic volume distributions of road segments and transforming traffic features into common data space, is proposed. Moreover, this study applied taxi GPS (global positioning system) data and cellular signaling data with the same spatio-temporal coverage to improve feature extraction. In numerical experiments, the robustness and stability of the proposed network-wide estimation method outperformed other baselines in the two subnetworks selected from the urban centers and suburbs.
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spelling doaj.art-7364e1579b39490886178e0414ad4fd12023-02-08T00:48:59ZengAIMS PressElectronic Research Archive2688-15942023-01-0131120722810.3934/era.2023011Transfer learning for robust urban network-wide traffic volume estimation with uncertain detector deployment schemeJiping Xing0Yunchi Wu1Di Huang2Xin Liu31. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, School of Transportation, Southeast University, China2. School of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, School of Transportation, Southeast University, China1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, School of Transportation, Southeast University, ChinaReal-time and accurate network-wide traffic volume estimation/detection is an essential part of urban transport system planning and management. As it is impractical to install detectors on every road segment of the city network, methods on the network-wide flow estimation based on limited detector data are of considerable significance. However, when the plan of detector deployment is uncertain, existing methods are unsuitable to be directly used. In this study, a transfer component analysis (TCA)-based network-wide volume estimation model, considering the different traffic volume distributions of road segments and transforming traffic features into common data space, is proposed. Moreover, this study applied taxi GPS (global positioning system) data and cellular signaling data with the same spatio-temporal coverage to improve feature extraction. In numerical experiments, the robustness and stability of the proposed network-wide estimation method outperformed other baselines in the two subnetworks selected from the urban centers and suburbs.https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/era.2023011https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/era.2023011network-wide volume estimationtransfer component analysismulti-source data fusiontaxi gps datacellular signaling data
spellingShingle Jiping Xing
Yunchi Wu
Di Huang
Xin Liu
Transfer learning for robust urban network-wide traffic volume estimation with uncertain detector deployment scheme
Electronic Research Archive
network-wide volume estimation
transfer component analysis
multi-source data fusion
taxi gps data
cellular signaling data
title Transfer learning for robust urban network-wide traffic volume estimation with uncertain detector deployment scheme
title_full Transfer learning for robust urban network-wide traffic volume estimation with uncertain detector deployment scheme
title_fullStr Transfer learning for robust urban network-wide traffic volume estimation with uncertain detector deployment scheme
title_full_unstemmed Transfer learning for robust urban network-wide traffic volume estimation with uncertain detector deployment scheme
title_short Transfer learning for robust urban network-wide traffic volume estimation with uncertain detector deployment scheme
title_sort transfer learning for robust urban network wide traffic volume estimation with uncertain detector deployment scheme
topic network-wide volume estimation
transfer component analysis
multi-source data fusion
taxi gps data
cellular signaling data
url https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/era.2023011https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/era.2023011
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