Journal
IEEE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS MAGAZINE
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 158-170Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/MITS.2019.2919504
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1564212, 61773036, U1764265]
- Beijing Nova Program [z151100000315048]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [9172011]
- Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by the China Association for Science and Technology [2016QNRC001, 2017QNRC001]
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Accurate estimation of traffic counts [(i.e., annual average daily traffic (AADT)] is essential to transportation agencies for traffic demand forecasting, emission evaluation, pavement design, and project prioritization. Traditional AADT estimation methods rely on either temporal data imputation techniques based on historical records or kriging-based spatial interpolation approaches. However, Kriging method utilizes the correlation function as the sole descriptor of spatial dependency, posing limitations to yield accurate interpolation results for unstable AADTs under complex traffic patterns due to diverse road functions or land uses. This study proposed a copula-based model that combines spatial dependency and marginal distribution for missing AADT interpolation to weaken the limitation of Kriging method. Thus, the proposed model not only can describe the spatial dependency but also is robust to outliers. AADT data collected from the California state highway network were used to evaluate the effectiveness of spatial copula models with varying missing data rates. Four road segments with regular and recreational traffic patterns were selected to compare with existing kriging-based approaches. Results suggested that the spatial copulas yielded significantly higher accuracy rates than kriging did for irregular travel patterns with high missing data rates. Spatial copula models hold a great potential to improve the performance of large-scale transportation network-wide data imputation for planning and operational usages.
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