A Functional Data Analysis Approach to Traffic Volume Forecasting

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 878-888

  Wagner Muns, Isaac Michael ^a   Guardiola, Ivan G ^a   Samaranayke, V A ^b   Kayani, Wasim Irshad ^c,d  

^a Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c National University of Science and Technology   (Pakistan)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

functional data analysis; functional principal components analysis; Short term traffic volume forecasting

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DATA REDUCTION; FORECASTING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION;

FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; SHORT-TERM TRAFFIC VOLUME; SOLID MODEL;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 85021792394     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2017.2706143     Document Type: Article

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