Data mining approach for calibrating and modeling the link performance function via MARS
摘要
Link performance function is a fundamental key input for the traffic assignment process. It depends on several parameters that can be calibrated to accommodate local conditions. However, the commonly used model is the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) formula. This research attempts to calibrate this model parameters and develop new models with exponential regression analysis and a Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline (MARS). Sufficient travel time data with the concurrent traffic flow were collected at different volume-to-capacity ratios, from urban arterials in Baghdad city. The resulting data points were used to calibrate the (BPR) model and develop new models. The ɑ and β parameters are calibrated as 0.8 and 4.7, respectively. The correlation coefficients of the calibrated models, the developed exponent model, and the developed MARS model are 0.83, 0.87, and 0.94, respectively, with a variance accounted of 0.78, 0.77, and 0.56, respectively. The MARS model, a kind of advanced data mining and machine learning approach, outperforms other models by saving approximately 35.6 and 27% of variance compared with the calibrated BPR model and exponent model, respectively. Selecting the most appropriate one depends on the method of analyzing the highway assignment and the available software. Since highway assignment is highly sensitive to link performance with varied traffic volume.