A novel traffic forecasting model using particle swarm optimized neural network with adaptive weights(PSOA-NN)is proposed to address the issue of low accuracy prediction of traditional neural network forecasting model with a lot of invalid iterations in prediction process. Several groups of model parameters are initialized casually according to the observing point numbers of up and down streams and historical data in a neighbourhood of the forecast location
and the particle fitness of corresponding parameters in each group is calculated. Then
an improved sigmoid function is used to replace the fixed inertia weights in original model
speeds and locations are updated for the particles with improved fitness
and the iteration continues until the fitnesses of particles are less than a preset value. Finally
the model parameters that satisfies particle requirement are applied to the neural network model
and the traffic data 15 min later is predicted according to real time traffic flow data. Simulation results show that the convergent speed of the PSOA-NN model increases by about 0.6 to 1.7 times within the identical deviation range.
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