Automatic Detection of Major Freeway Congestion Events Using Wireless Traffic Sensor Data: A Machine Learning Approach

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05079v1
• Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 21:38:45 GMT
• Title: Automatic Detection of Major Freeway Congestion Events Using Wireless Traffic Sensor Data: A Machine Learning Approach
• Authors: Sanaz Aliari, Kaveh F. Sadabadi
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces a machine learning based approach for reliable detection and characterization of highway traffic congestion events. The speed data is initially time-windowed by a ten-hour long sliding window and fed into three Neural Networks. The sliding window captures each slowdown event multiple times and results in increased confidence in congestion detection.
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• Abstract: Monitoring the dynamics of traffic in major corridors can provide invaluable insight for traffic planning purposes. An important requirement for this monitoring is the availability of methods to automatically detect major traffic events and to annotate the abundance of travel data. This paper introduces a machine learning based approach for reliable detection and characterization of highway traffic congestion events from hundreds of hours of traffic speed data. Indeed, the proposed approach is a generic approach for detection of changes in any given time series, which is the wireless traffic sensor data in the present study. The speed data is initially time-windowed by a ten-hour long sliding window and fed into three Neural Networks that are used to detect the existence and duration of congestion events (slowdowns) in each window. The sliding window captures each slowdown event multiple times and results in increased confidence in congestion detection. The training and parameter tuning are performed on 17,483 hours of data that includes 168 slowdown events. This data is collected and labeled as part of the ongoing probe data validation studies at the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (CATT) at the University of Maryland. The Neural networks are carefully trained to reduce the chances of over-fitting to the training data. The experimental results show that this approach is able to successfully detect most of the congestion events, while significantly outperforming a heuristic rule-based approach. Moreover, the proposed approach is shown to be more accurate in estimation of the start-time and end-time of the congestion events.

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