With the rapid development of long or extra-long highway tunnel, accurate and reliable methods and techniques to forecast\ntraffic flow for road tunnel are urgently needed to improve the ventilation efficiency and saving energy. This paper presents a new\nhybrid Gaussian process regression (GPR) optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO) for coping with the forecasting of the\nuncertain, nonlinear, and complex traffic flow for road tunnel. In this proposed coupling approach, the PSO algorithm is employed\nto overcome the disadvantages of too strong dependence of optimization effect on initial value and easy falling into local optimum\nof the traditional conjugate gradient algorithm and accurately search the optimal hyperparameters of the GPR method, and the\nGPR model simulates the internal uncertainties and dynamic feature of tunnel traffic flow.The predicted results indicate that the\nproposed PSO-GPR algorithm with different kernel function is able to predict traffic flow for road tunnel with a higher degree of\naccuracy. The PSO-GPR-CK is effective in boosting the forecasting accuracy in comparison with the single kernel function and is\nworth promoting in the field of traffic flow forecasting for road tunnel to improve the ventilation efficiency.
Loading....