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Computational technologies under the domain of intelligent systems are expected to help the rapidly increasing traffic congestion problem in recent traffic management. Traffic management requires efficient and accurate forecasting models to assist real time traffic control systems. Researchers have proposed various computational approaches, especially in short-term traffic flow forecasting, in order to establish reliable traffic patterns models and generate timely prediction results. Forecasting models should have high accuracy and low computational time to be applied in intelligent traffic management. Therefore, this paper aims to evaluate recent computational modeling approaches utilized in short-term traffic flow forecasting. These approaches are evaluated by real-world data collected on the British freeway (M6) from 1st to 30th November in 2014. The results indicate that neural network model outperforms generalized additive model and autoregressive integrated moving average model on the accuracy of freeway traffic forecasting.
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Yang, H., Dillon, T.S., Chen, YP.P. (2015). Evaluation of Recent Computational Approaches in Short-Term Traffic Forecasting. In: Dillon, T. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice IV. IFIP AI 2015. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 465. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25261-2_10
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