Short-term forecasting of available parking space using wavelet neural network model

作者：Ji, Yanjie^*; Tang, Dounan; Blythe, Phil; Guo, Weihong; Wang, Wei

来源：IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 2015, 9(2): 202-209.

DOI：10.1049/iet-its.2013.0184

• wavelet neural nets
• forecasting theory
• traffic information systems
• Lyapunov methods
• mean square error methods
• parking guidance information systems
• parking availability
• off-street parking garages
• Newcastle
• Tyne
• England
• short-term APS forecasting model
• short-term available parking space forecasting model
• wavelet neural network method
• PGIS problem
• training set size
• delay time
• WNN prediction performance
• Lyapunov exponent method
• LE method
• prediction average mean square error
• MSE

The technique to forecast available parking spaces (APSs) is the foundation theory of parking guidance information systems (PGISs). This study utilises data collected on parking availability at several off-street parking garages in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, to investigate the changing characteristics of APS. Using these baseline data the research reported here aims to build up a short-term APS forecasting model and applies the wavelet neural network (WNN) method to the PGIS problem. After selecting optimal preferences, including training set size, delay time and embedding dimension, the APS short-term forecasting model based on WNN is built and tested using the real-world dataset. By experimental tests conducted using the same dataset, WNN's prediction performance is compared with the largest Lyapunov exponents (LEs) method in the aspects of accuracy, efficiency and robustness. It is found that WNN prevails through a more efficient structure and employs, barely half of the computational cost compared to the largest LEs method, which could be significant if applied to real-time operation. Moreover, WNN enjoys a more accurate performance, for its prediction average mean square error (MSE) is 6.4 +/- 3.1 (in a parking building with 492 parking lots) for workdays and 8.5 +/- 6.2 for weekends, compared to the MSE of largest LEs method, 18.7 and 29.0, respectively.

• 出版日期2015-3
• 单位东南大学