Traffic Flow Data Recovery Algorithm Based on Gray Residual GM(1, N) Model

Abstract

Because of the basic data support and continuous motive force for the intelligent transportation systems (ITS), the quality of the raw traffic data detected from traffic sensors directly affect the follow-up benefits of the entire system. In view of the widespread failure problems of collected traffic data, the paper takes the traffic flow data of intersection detector as the research object. A traffic flow data recovery algorithm based gray residual GM(1, N) model is proposed to effectively improve the quality of traffic flow data. First, the grey relational analysis is conducted on the traffic flow of four links at an intersection. Then a grey model GM(1, N) is developed for the estimated recovery of failure data. The residual modification is used to improve the accuracy of the repaired data. The results indicate that the proposed traffic flow data recovery algorithm is feasible. It is able to solve the post-processing difficulties due to data failure and it serves as a good method for failure data recovery in other areas as well.