AuthorsM. Lee, J. Lin and E. G. Gran
TitleDistTune: Distributed Fine-Grained Adaptive Traffic Speed Prediction for Growing Transportation Networks
AfilliationCommunication Systems
Project(s)Department of High Performance Computing
StatusPublished
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2021
JournalTransportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Volume2675
Issue10
Pagination211 - 227
Date Published05/2021
PublisherUS National Research Council
ISSN0361-1981
Abstract

Over the past decade, many approaches have been introduced for traffic speed prediction. However, providing fine-grained, accurate, time-efficient, and adaptive traffic speed prediction for a growing transportation network where the size of the network keeps increasing and new traffic detectors are constantly deployed has not been well studied. To address this issue, this paper presents DistTune based on long short-term memory (LSTM) and the Nelder-Mead method. When encountering an unprocessed detector, DistTune decides if it should customize an LSTM model for this detector by comparing the detector with other processed detectors in the normalized traffic speed patterns they have observed. If a similarity is found, DistTune directly shares an existing LSTM model with this detector to achieve time-efficient processing. Otherwise, DistTune customizes an LSTM model for the detector to achieve fine-grained prediction. To make DistTune even more time-efficient, DisTune performs on a cluster of computing nodes in parallel. To achieve adaptive traffic speed prediction, DistTune also provides LSTM re-customization for detectors that suffer from unsatisfactory prediction accuracy due to, for instance, changes in traffic speed patterns. Extensive experiments based on traffic data collected from freeway I5-N in California are conducted to evaluate the performance of DistTune. The results demonstrate that DistTune provides fine-grained, accurate, time-efficient, and adaptive traffic speed prediction for a growing transportation network.

DOI10.1177/03611981211011170
Citation Key28378