Traffic Flow Prediction with Improved SOPIO-SVR Algorithm

In urban public transport, the traffic flow prediction is a classical non-linear complicated optimization problem, which is very important for public transport system. With the rapid development of the big data, Smart card data of bus which is provided by millions of passengers traveling by bus across several days plays a more and more important role in our daily life. The issue that we address is whether the data mining algorithm and the intelligent optimization algorithm can be applied to forecast the traffic flow from big data of bus. In this paper, a novel algorithm which called mixed support vector regression with sub-space orthogonal pigeon-Inspired Optimization (SOPIO-MSVR) is used to predict the traffic flow and optimize the algorithm progress. Results show the SOPIO-MSVR algorithm outperforms other algorithms by a margin and is a competitive algorithm. And the research can make the significant contribution to the improvement of the transportation.