A Taxonomy of Traffic Forecasting Regression Problems From a Supervised Learning Perspective

IEEE Access

Juan S. Angarita-Zapata¹  Antonio D. Masegosa¹  Isaac Triguero² 

[1] 1DeustoTech, Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain;Automated Scheduling, Optimization, and Planning (ASAP), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K.;

关键词: Traffic forecasting;    supervised learning;    machine learning;    deep learning;    intelligent transportation systems;   

DOI  :  10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2917228

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

One contemporary policy to deal with traffic congestion is the design and implementation of forecasting methods that allow users to plan ahead of time and decision makers to improve traffic management. Current data availability and growing computational capacities have increased the use of machine learning (ML) to address traffic prediction, which is mostly modeled as a supervised regression problem. Although some studies have presented taxonomies to sort the literature in this field, they are mostly oriented to classify the ML methods applied and a little effort has been directed to categorize the traffic forecasting problems approached by them. As far as we know, there is no comprehensive taxonomy that classifies these problems from the point of view of both traffic and ML. In this paper, we propose a taxonomy to categorize the aforementioned problems from both traffic and a supervised regression learning perspective. The taxonomy aims at unifying and consolidating categorization criteria related to traffic and it introduces new criteria to classify the problems in terms of how they are modeled from a supervised regression approach. The traffic forecasting literature, from 2000 to 2019, is categorized using this taxonomy to illustrate its descriptive power. From this categorization, different remarks are discussed regarding the current gaps and trends in the addressed traffic forecasting area.

【 授权许可】

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