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- From: tsu1@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: TIME SERIES FORECASTING/KALMAN FILTER
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.204659.11554@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:46:59 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620
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- I am working in a project dealing with the forecasting of traffic congestion
- in urban road networks, for use in a real time drivers' information system.
- I used formulations like
-
- ^y(t+1) = a1.y(t) + a2.y(t-1) + ..... +
- b11.q1(t) + b12.q1(t-1) + ..... +
- b21.q2(t) + b22.q2(t-1) + ..... +
- .......
- c1.yh(t+1) + c2.yh(t) + ...
- d11.qh1(t) + d12.qh1(t-1) + ..... +
- d21.qh2(t) + d22.qh2(t-1) + ..... + (1)
-
-
- where ^y(t+1) the predicted level of flow at time t+1 at the link of interest
- y(t) the measured flow at the link of interest
- qi(t) the measured flow at link i upstream of the link of interest
- yh(t) historical flow for the link of interest at time t
- qhi(t) historical flow for link i at time t
- (historical flow (t) = average flow(t) over the last few days)
-
- and kalman filter theory to identify the system parameters which are assumed to
- be time varying.
- I used several formulations (differnt terms of the AR and MA components) but
- I did not find any formulation that consistently performs better.
-
- I then tried to predict the ratio between predicted and historical
- flow ^ry(t+1)=^y(t+1)/yh(t+1) and then from this ratio to predict the ^y(t+1)
- using formulations like
- ^ry(t+1) = A1.ry(t) + A2.ry(t-1) + ...
- B11.rq1(t) + ........
- B21.rq2(t) + ....
-
- ^y(t+1) = ^ry(t+1).yh(t+1)
-
- where rqi(t) = qi(t)/qhi(t)
-
- I found that the latter approach consistently performs better than the former.
- There is often a regularity in the patterns observed every day, but given the
- fact in both formulations I used historical info I didn't expect significant
- differences in the forecasts.
- Can anybody help me on how I can a develop a theoretical proof of this outcome?
- Do you know of any papers discussing a relevant subject?
-
-
- Thanks very much,
-
- Petros Vythoulkas
- TSU1@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Transport Studies Unit
- University of Oxford
-