Research on the Combination Model of Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting

Short-term traffic flow is difficult to predict accurately and real-time, owing to the characteristics of very complexity, randomness, nonlinearity and uncertainty, etc.. In this paper, the method of combining multiple linear regression with back propagation (BP) neural network was proposed, using BP neural network to compensate the model error of multiple linear regression. The combination model and the corresponding algorithm program was made, and used to pedict the short-term traffic flow. Two different methods of selecting the input layer parameters were used and compared, while the new method has higher accuracy and stability.