[1] Pan Yiyong, Sun Lu, Characterizing heterogeneity in vehicular traffic speedusing two-step cluster analysis [J]. Journal of Southeast University (English Edition), 2012, 28 (4): 480-484. [doi:10.3969/j.issn.1003-7985.2012.04.019]

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Journal of Southeast University (English Edition)[ISSN:1003-7985/CN:32-1325/N]

Volumn:

28

Issue:

2012 4

Page:

480-484

Research Field:

Traffic and Transportation Engineering

Publishing date:

2012-12-30

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Title:

Characterizing heterogeneity in vehicular traffic speedusing two-step cluster analysis

Author(s):

Pan Yiyong¹;  Sun Lu¹;  2

¹School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096
²Department of Civil Engineering, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC 20064, USA

Keywords:

speed distribution;  heterogeneity;  mixture model;  cluster analysis

PACS:

U491

DOI:

10.3969/j.issn.1003-7985.2012.04.019

Abstract:

In order to analyze the heterogeneity in vehicular traffic speed, a new method that integrates cluster analysis and probability distribution function fitting is presented. First, for identifying the optimal number of clusters, the two-step cluster method is applied to analyze actual speed data, which suggests that dividing speed data into two clusters can best reflect the intrinsic patterns of traffic flows. Such information is then taken as guidance in probability distribution function fitting. The normal, skew-normal and skew-t distribution functions are used to fit the probability distribution of each cluster respectively, which suggests that the skew-t distribution has the highest fitting accuracy; the second is skew-normal distribution; the worst is normal distribution. Model analysis results demonstrate that the proposed mixture model has a better fitting and generalization capability than the conventional single model. In addition, the new method is more flexible in terms of data fitting and can provide a more accurate model of speed distribution.

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Memo

Memo:

Biographies: Pan Yiyong(1980—), male, graduate; Sun Lu(corresponding author), male, doctor, professor, sunl@cua.edu.
Foundation items: The National Science Foundation by Changjiang Scholarship of Ministry of Education of China(No.BCS-0527508), the Joint Research Fund for Overseas Natural Science of China(No.51250110075), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK200910046), the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.0901005C).
Citation: Pan Yiyong, Sun Lu. Characterizing heterogeneity in vehicular traffic speed using two-step cluster analysis[J].Journal of Southeast University(English Edition), 2012, 28(4):480-484.[doi:10.3969/j.issn.1003-7985.2012.04.019]

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