Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Volume 23, Issue 8, Pages 11688-11698Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3106259
Keywords
Mathematical model; Data models; Maximum likelihood estimation; Physics; Deep learning; Urban areas; Predictive models; Traffic state estimation; traffic flow models; fundamental diagram learner; physics-informed deep learning
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- NSF [DMS1937254, DMS-2012562, CCF-1704833]
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This paper discusses the limitations of model-driven and data-driven approaches for traffic state estimation and introduces a hybrid method, PIDL + FDL, which combines both components. Experimental results demonstrate that PIDL + FDL outperforms advanced baseline methods in terms of estimation accuracy and data efficiency while properly learning the underlying fundamental diagram relation.
Traffic state estimation (TSE) bifurcates into two main categories, model-driven and data-driven (e.g., machine learning, ML) approaches, while each suffers from either deficient physics or small data. To mitigate these limitations, recent studies introduced hybrid methods, such as physics-informed deep learning (PIDL), which contains both model-driven and data-driven components. This paper contributes an improved paradigm, called physics-informed deep learning with a fundamental diagram learner (PIDL + FDL), which integrates ML terms into the model-driven component to learn a functional form of a fundamental diagram (FD), i.e., a mapping from traffic density to flow or velocity. The proposed PIDL + FDL has the advantages of performing the TSE learning, model parameter identification, and FD estimation simultaneously. This paper focuses on highway TSE with observed data from loop detectors, using traffic density or velocity as traffic variables. We demonstrate the use of PIDL + FDL to solve popular first-order and second-order traffic flow models and reconstruct the FD relation as well as model parameters that are outside the FD term. We then evaluate the PIDL + FDL-based TSE using the Next Generation SIMulation (NGSIM) dataset. The experimental results show the superiority of the PIDL + FDL in terms of improved estimation accuracy and data efficiency over advanced baseline TSE methods, and additionally, the capacity to properly learn the unknown underlying FD relation.
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