灰色BP网络串联式组合模型在铁路客货运输量预测中的应用

针对铁路客货运输量发展趋势的研究,建立一种基于灰色理论和BP神经网络的串联式组合预测模型。该模型首先用同一组数据序列建立不同参数的灰色方程,然后用各灰色方程分别预测,最后将各灰色方程预测的结果进行BP神经网络非线性组合,形成串联式组合预测模型。对湖南省铁路客货运量进行分析预测,结果表明:该组合模型预测的准确性高于单独使用灰色模型的准确性,是一种可靠有效的预测方法。     

灰色系统理论在原油管道结蜡规律预测模型的应用

原油结蜡是影响管道安全、经济和高效运行的一个重要因素。为了对输油管道的结蜡状况进行预测,掌握输油管道结蜡的基本规律,应用灰色系统理论中的模型对输油管道结蜡速度和结蜡厚度等指标的实际统计数据进行了灰色动态拟合,建立了相应的灰色微分方程和时间响应函数。结果表明：残差小于2%,模型精度满足工程实际需要。     

灰色GM(1,1)模型在靖西天然气管道负荷预测中的应用

靖西天然气管道是重要输气干线,准确预测需求负荷变化情况,确保管道安全、平稳、高效供气意义重大。文中以灰色理论为基础,利用管道历年气量数据建立灰色预测的GM(1,1)模型,采用后验差检验对预测模型进行检验,并对该管道未来用气需求量进行预测。计算结果显示:灰色GM(1,1)模型预测结果与实际结果具有较好的一致性,精度能够满足实际应用的要求,预测结果对靖西管道运行管理具有一定的借鉴作用。     

基于遗传算法的BP神经网络短时交通流预测

对BP神经网络模型、方法及遗传算法的基本原理进行了分析,将遗传算法与标准BP神经网络算法相结合构建了基于遗传算法的神经网络算法;建立了基于BP神经网络的短时交通流预测模型,对BP神经网络算法及基于遗传算法的BP神经网络算法进行设计,并将其应用于短时交通流预测模型的仿真计算,仿真结果表明基于遗传算法的BP神经网络算法具有更快的计算速度及更好的适应能力,该方法可以较好地应用于短时交通流预测。     

天然气消费量的灰色模型预测

介绍了利用灰色理论预测天然气消费量的模型,包括GM(1,1)模型和动态等维灰数递补灰色预测模型,对模型进行了求解,介绍了模型精度的检验方法,并用实例加以验证,同时与实际消费量进行了对比.计算结果表明:此方法预测天然气消费量既简单又准确,有较好的适应性和较高的精度,对天然气输配管网的优化运行和统一调度管理具有重要的参考意义.     

输油管道改造中工艺参数的确定与计算

河南油田某输油管道井～魏段存在热能损耗较大、工艺不合理、部分管段结蜡现象严重等问题。文中指出了工程改造中输油管道规模、输油工艺有关参数的确定方法,并简述了该段输油管道水力、热力计算选用的公式及其管径的选择方法。按加降凝剂和不加降凝剂两种运行方式分别进行全线水力和热力及运行能耗综合计算。从系统工作压力、投资及运行费用上综合考虑,该输油管段宜采用DN300保温管道不加降凝剂运行方式。     

基于HMM的交通运行态势评估及预测方法

文章以西安绕城高速公路为例,应用构建的预测模型,预测路网交通运行态势,并评估预测结果,对比HMM、自回归移动平均模型和灰色马尔可夫模型三种预测方法的准确率和误差,所提出的HMM预测模型不仅能从整体上预测路网交通运行态势的态势值,且准确率更高、误差更小。     

灰色预测模型在城市道路交通事故中的应用

详细介绍了灰色模型的原理和特点,根据交通事故的发生特点,探讨了灰色模型在道路交通事故预测中的具体应用,并利用此模型对青岛市某地区的交通事故进行预测,建立了灰色预测模型,根据实际事故数据与预测值进行了比较,灰色预测模型的精度比较好.     

原油管道结蜡预测模型研究

利用灰色GM(1,1)模型的全息信息特性,在不需要多因素分析的情况下,建立了输油管道的结蜡速度和结蜡厚度的灰色GM(1,1)模型,实现了部分信息情况下的原油管道结蜡预测。实际计算表明:该模型误差在±2%以内,完全满足工程实际需要。     

城市燃气长期负荷预测模型的灰色方法

提出利用灰色系统理论 ,建立动态等维灰数递补灰色燃气长期负荷预测模型 ,解决了我国城市燃气长期负荷可用历史数据较少 ,序列的完整性及数据资料的可靠性较低 ,规划设计中往往又需要对未来数年后的用气负荷作出预测的问题。实例预测计算表明 :动态等维灰数递补灰色燃气长期负荷预测模型和方法对城市燃气长期用气负荷的预测具有较好的适应性和较高的精度。     

A genetic algorithm-based method for improving quality of travel time prediction intervals

The transportation literature is rich in the application of neural networks for travel time prediction. The uncertainty prevailing in operation of transportation systems, however, highly degrades prediction performance of neural networks. Prediction intervals for neural network outcomes can properly represent the uncertainty associated with the predictions. This paper studies an application of the delta technique for the construction of prediction intervals for bus and freeway travel times. The quality of these intervals strongly depends on the neural network structure and a training hyperparameter. A genetic algorithm–based method is developed that automates the neural network model selection and adjustment of the hyperparameter. Model selection and parameter adjustment is carried out through minimization of a prediction interval-based cost function, which depends on the width and coverage probability of constructed prediction intervals. Experiments conducted using the bus and freeway travel time datasets demonstrate the suitability of the proposed method for improving the quality of constructed prediction intervals in terms of their length and coverage probability.     

Bayesian committee of neural networks to predict travel times with confidence intervals

Short-term prediction of travel time is one of the central topics in current transportation research and practice. Among the more successful travel time prediction approaches are neural networks and combined prediction models (a ‘committee’). However, both approaches have disadvantages. Usually many candidate neural networks are trained and the best performing one is selected. However, it is difficult and arbitrary to select the optimal network. In committee approaches a principled and mathematically sound framework to combine travel time predictions is lacking. This paper overcomes the drawbacks of both approaches by combining neural networks in a committee using Bayesian inference theory. An ‘evidence’ factor can be calculated for each model, which can be used as a stopping criterion during training, and as a tool to select and combine different neural networks. Along with higher prediction accuracy, this approach allows for accurate estimation of confidence intervals for the predictions. When comparing the committee predictions to single neural network predictions on the A12 motorway in the Netherlands it is concluded that the approach indeed leads to improved travel time prediction accuracy.     

Shipment forecasting for supply chain collaborative transportation management using grey models with grey numbers

The sharing of forecasts is vital to supply chain collaborative transportation management (CTM). Shipment forecasting is fundamental to CTM, and is essential to carrier tactical and operational planning processes such as network planning, routing, scheduling, and fleet planning and assignment. By applying and extending grey forecasting theory, this paper develops a series of shipment forecasting models for supply chain CTM. Grey time-series forecasting and grey systematic forecasting models are developed for shipment forecasting under different collaborative frameworks. This paper also integrates grey numbers with grey models for analyzing shipment forecasting under partial information sharing in CTM frameworks. An example of an integrated circuit (IC) supply chain and relevant data are provided. The proposed models yield more accurate prediction results than regression, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA), and neural network models. Finally, numerical results indicate that as the degree of information sharing increases under CTM, carrier prediction accuracy increases. This paper demonstrates how the proposed forecasting models can be applied to the CTM system and provides the theoretical basis for the forecasting module developed for supply chain CTM.     

A hybrid deep learning based traffic flow prediction method and its understanding

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently demonstrated the capability to predict traffic flow with big data. While existing DNN models can provide better performance than shallow models, it is still an open issue of making full use of spatial-temporal characteristics of the traffic flow to improve their performance. In addition, our understanding of them on traffic data remains limited. This paper proposes a DNN based traffic flow prediction model (DNN-BTF) to improve the prediction accuracy. The DNN-BTF model makes full use of weekly/daily periodicity and spatial-temporal characteristics of traffic flow. Inspired by recent work in machine learning, an attention based model was introduced that automatically learns to determine the importance of past traffic flow. The convolutional neural network was also used to mine the spatial features and the recurrent neural network to mine the temporal features of traffic flow. We also showed through visualization how DNN-BTF model understands traffic flow data and presents a challenge to conventional thinking about neural networks in the transportation field that neural networks is purely a “black-box” model. Data from open-access database PeMS was used to validate the proposed DNN-BTF model on a long-term horizon prediction task. Experimental results demonstrated that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches.     

Hybrid artificial neural network and locally weighted regression models for lane-based short-term urban traffic flow forecasting

ABSTRACT

In recent years, there has been considerable research interest in short-term traffic flow forecasting. However, forecasting models offering a high accuracy at a fine temporal resolution (e.g. 1 or 5?min) and lane level are still rare. In this study, a combination of genetic algorithm, neural network and locally weighted regression is used to achieve optimal prediction under various input and traffic settings. The genetically optimized artificial neural network (GA-ANN) and locally weighted regression (GA-LWR) models are developed and tested, with the former forecasting traffic flow every 5-min within a 30-min period and the latter for forecasting traffic flow of a particular 5-min period of each for four lanes of an urban arterial road in Beijing, China. In particular, for morning peak and off-peak traffic flow prediction, the GA-ANN 5-min traffic flow model results in average errors of 3–5% and most 95th percentile errors of 7–14% for each of the four lanes; for the peak and off-peak time traffic flow predictions, the GA-LWR 5-min traffic flow model results in average errors of 2–4% and most 95th percentile errors are lower than 10% for each of the four lanes. When compared to previous models that usually offer average errors greater than 6–15%, such empirical findings should be of interest to and instrumental for transportation authorities to incorporate in their city- or state-wide Advanced Traveller Information Systems (ATIS).     

运用灰色理论预测隧道变形的探讨

隧道变形监测对于隧道的安全有着重要的作用.运用灰色理论GM模型对其变形数据进行预测分析,发现灰色理论对隧道的变形有一定的预测效果,同时了解到不同样本数据其预测精度存在差异.为此,提出使用二次拟合参数法对其进行改进,得出二次拟合参数法对低精度的预测模型有一定的改进效果,而对于较高精度的预测模型效果并不显著.     

Short-term speed predictions exploiting big data on large urban road networks

Big data from floating cars supply a frequent, ubiquitous sampling of traffic conditions on the road network and provide great opportunities for enhanced short-term traffic predictions based on real-time information on the whole network. Two network-based machine learning models, a Bayesian network and a neural network, are formulated with a double star framework that reflects time and space correlation among traffic variables and because of its modular structure is suitable for an automatic implementation on large road networks. Among different mono-dimensional time-series models, a seasonal autoregressive moving average model (SARMA) is selected for comparison. The time-series model is also used in a hybrid modeling framework to provide the Bayesian network with an a priori estimation of the predicted speed, which is then corrected exploiting the information collected on other links. A large floating car data set on a sub-area of the road network of Rome is used for validation. To account for the variable accuracy of the speed estimated from floating car data, a new error indicator is introduced that relates accuracy of prediction to accuracy of measure. Validation results highlighted that the spatial architecture of the Bayesian network is advantageous in standard conditions, where a priori knowledge is more significant, while mono-dimensional time series revealed to be more valuable in the few cases of non-recurrent congestion conditions observed in the data set. The results obtained suggested introducing a supervisor framework that selects the most suitable prediction depending on the detected traffic regimes.     

混凝土结构钢筋锈蚀率BP神经网络预测模型

文章基于对钢筋锈蚀率与锈胀裂缝关系的分析,建立了根据锈胀裂缝宽度预测钢筋锈蚀率的BP神经网络模型,并将该模型的预测结果与采用线性拟合法预测的结果进行了比较。结果表明：用BP神经网络模型可以较准确、简便、快速地预测钢筋混凝土结构的钢筋锈蚀率。     

Classification modeling approach for vehicle dynamics model‐integrated traffic simulation assessing surrogate safety

To assess safety impacts of untried traffic control strategies, an earlier study developed a vehicle dynamics model‐integrated (i.e., VISSIM‐CarSim‐SSAM) simulation approach and evaluated its performance using surrogate safety measures. Although the study found that the integrated simulation approach was a superior alternative to existing approaches in assessing surrogate safety, the computation time required for the implementation of the integrated simulation approach prevents it from using it in practice. Thus, this study developed and evaluated two types of models that could replace the integrated simulation approach with much faster computation time, feasible for real‐time implementation. The two models are as follows: (i) a statistical model (i.e., logit model) and (ii) a nonparametric approach (i.e., artificial neural network). The logit model and the neural network model were developed and trained on the basis of three simulation data sets obtained from the VISSIM‐CarSim‐SSAM integrated simulation approach, and their performances were compared in terms of the prediction accuracy. These two models were evaluated using six new simulation data sets. The results indicated that the neural network approach showing 97.7% prediction accuracy was superior to the logit model with 85.9% prediction accuracy. In addition, the correlation analysis results between the traffic conflicts obtained from the neural network approach and the actual traffic crash data collected in the field indicated a statistically significant relationship (i.e., 0.68 correlation coefficient) between them. This correlation strength is higher than that of the VISSIM only (i.e., the state of practice) simulation approach. The study results indicated that the neural network approach is not only a time‐efficient way to implementing the VISSIM‐CarSim‐SSAM integrated simulation but also a superior alternative in assessing surrogate safety. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A novel passenger flow prediction model using deep learning methods

Currently, deep learning has been successfully applied in many fields and achieved amazing results. Meanwhile, big data has revolutionized the transportation industry over the past several years. These two hot topics have inspired us to reconsider the traditional issue of passenger flow prediction. As a special structure of deep neural network (DNN), an autoencoder can deeply and abstractly extract the nonlinear features embedded in the input without any labels. By exploiting its remarkable capabilities, a novel hourly passenger flow prediction model using deep learning methods is proposed in this paper. Temporal features including the day of a week, the hour of a day, and holidays, the scenario features including inbound and outbound, and tickets and cards, and the passenger flow features including the previous average passenger flow and real-time passenger flow, are defined as the input features. These features are combined and trained as different stacked autoencoders (SAE) in the first stage. Then, the pre-trained SAE are further used to initialize the supervised DNN with the real-time passenger flow as the label data in the second stage. The hybrid model (SAE-DNN) is applied and evaluated with a case study of passenger flow prediction for four bus rapid transit (BRT) stations of Xiamen in the third stage. The experimental results show that the proposed method has the capability to provide a more accurate and universal passenger flow prediction model for different BRT stations with different passenger flow profiles.