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Transportation data online prediction

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TransPOL

Transportation data OnLine Prediction (TransPOL).

Contents

Strategic aim

Minning the spatial temporal characteristics of transportation data to predict the future transportation status. And updating the saptial temporal characteristics with newly observed data.

Tasks and challenges

Tasks

  • Online traffic prediction

    • Forecasting without missing values. (★★★)
    • Forecasting with incomplete observations. (★★★★★)

Challenges

  • Incomplete observations

The data we acquired may not be complete due to detector mailfunction, data transmission error and so on. We need to mine the data characteristic and make predictions with insufficient information. There are basically two forms of data missing:

  • Random missing: Each sensor lost their observations at completely random. (★★★)
  • Non-random missing: Each sensor lost their observations during several days. (★★★★)

Overview

With the development and application of intelligent transportation systems, large quantities of urban traffic data are collected on a continuous basis from various sources, such as loop detectors, cameras, and floating vehicles. These data sets capture the underlying states and dynamics of transportation networks and the whole system and become beneficial to many traffic operation and management applications, including routing, signal control, travel time prediction, and so on. The massive data we acquired gives us the opportunity to look into urban mobility and to mine patterns or characteristics of it. With finely acquired patterns and characteristics, we are able to precisely predict the future traffic status.

Selected references

Our blog posts (in Chinese)

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Transportation data online prediction


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