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Deep learning models for traffic volume prediction
(Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2024) Çini, Nevin; AGÜ, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Elektrik ve Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Ana Bilim Dalı
In the last 50 years, with the growth of cities and increase in the number of vehicles and mobility, traffic has become troublesome. As a result, traffic flow prediction started to attract attention as an important research area. However, despite the extensive literature, traffic flow prediction still remains as an open research problem, specifically for long- term traffic flow prediction. Compared to the models developed for short-term traffic flow prediction, the number of models developed for long-term traffic flow prediction is very few. Based on this shortcoming, in this study, we focus on long-term traffic flow prediction and propose a novel deep ensemble model (DEM). In order to build this ensemble model, first, we developed a convolutional neural network (CNN), a long short term memory (LSTM) network, and a gated recurrent unit (GRU) network as deep learning models, which formed the base learners. In the next step, we combine the output of these models according to their individual forecasting success. We use another deep learning model to determine the success of the individual models. Our proposed model is a flexible ensemble prediction model that can be updated based on traffic data. To evaluate the performance of the proposed model, we use a publicly available dataset. Numerical results show that our proposed model performs better than individual deep learning models (i.e., LSTM, CNN, GRU), selected traditional machine learning models (i.e., linear regression (LR), decision tree regression (DTR), k-nearest-neighbors regression (KNNR) and other ensemble models such as random-forest-regression(RFR).