Title: A Dynamic Model for Traffic Flow Prediction Using Improved DRN,
Abstract: Real-time traffic flow prediction can not only provide travelers with
reliable traffic information so that it can save people's time, but also assist
the traffic management agency to manage traffic system. It can greatly improve
the efficiency of the transportation system. Traditional traffic flow
prediction approaches usually need a large amount of data but still give poor
performances. With the development of deep learning, researchers begin to pay
attention to artificial neural networks (ANNs) such as RNN and LSTM. However,
these ANNs are very time-consuming. In our research, we improve the Deep
Residual Network and build a dynamic model which previous researchers hardly
use. We firstly integrate the input and output of the $i^{th}$ layer to the
input of the $i+1^{th}$ layer and prove that each layer will fit a simpler
function so that the error rate will be much smaller. Then, we use the concept
of online learning in our model to update pre-trained model during prediction.
Our result shows that our model has higher accuracy than some state-of-the-art
models. In addition, our dynamic model can perform better in practical
applications.