Short-Term Traffic Flow Prediction on Urban Roads Based on SMA-SVR Models
Short-term traffic flow prediction is one of the key issues in the field of dynamic traffic control and management.Due to uncertainty and nonlinearity,short-term traffic flow prediction is still a challenging task.In order to improve the accuracy of short-time traffic flow prediction,this paper propo-ses a Support Vector Regression(SVR)model optimised based on Slime Mould Algorithm(SMA).the data of weekday morning and evening peak traffic flow at Donghai Avenue-Caoshan Road intersection in Bengbu City were collected,the penalty parameters and kernel function parameters of the SVR model are efficiently optimised using SMA,the SMA-SVR model is built for case validation.The results show that the SMA-SVM model has the highest prediction accuracy,i.e.R2=0.97054,RMSE=47.7826,MAPE=7.1703%,and the fastest iterative convergence speed compared with the original SVR model and the SVR model based on the Particle Swarm Optimisation algorithm and the Sparrow Search algorithm.It can be seen that the proposed SMA-SVM model can be used for short-term traffic flow prediction on urban roads.