Traffic speed data imputation method based on tensor completion.

Journal: Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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Abstract

Traffic speed data plays a key role in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS); however, missing traffic data would affect the performance of ITS as well as Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS). In this paper, we handle this issue by a novel tensor-based imputation approach. Specifically, tensor pattern is adopted for modeling traffic speed data and then High accurate Low Rank Tensor Completion (HaLRTC), an efficient tensor completion method, is employed to estimate the missing traffic speed data. This proposed method is able to recover missing entries from given entries, which may be noisy, considering severe fluctuation of traffic speed data compared with traffic volume. The proposed method is evaluated on Performance Measurement System (PeMS) database, and the experimental results show the superiority of the proposed approach over state-of-the-art baseline approaches.

Authors

  • Bin Ran
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
  • Huachun Tan
    Department of Transportation Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
  • Jianshuai Feng
    Department of Transportation Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
  • Ying Liu
    The First School of Clinical Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
  • Wuhong Wang
    Department of Transportation Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.