A Key Factor in Traffic Management - Vehicle Speed Prediction Using Machine Learning

Abstract

The analysis of transportation data is considered as an essential application for Machine Learning (ML) based-intelligent transportation design and control especially for safety and improving energy management. There is a requirement to identify efficient methods for optimizing transportation operations and enhance traffic management. This study adopts exploratory data analysis to analyse transportation data including year, month, vehicle type, time period, area type, functional classification. Predictive analytics is used to predict vehicle speed as dependent variable. The study adopts four supervised ML models such as Multiple Linear Regression (MLR), Random Forest Regression (RFR), Decision Tree (DT) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach for analysing the speed prediction factors. Speed prediction assists as a foundation of advanced traffic management systems. The results from the findings suggest that ANN and RFR are the commendable model for performance analytics. © 2023 IEEE.