<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Automated Incident Detection (AID) is an important part of Advanced Trafﬁc Management and Information Systems (ATMISs). An automated incident detection system can effectively provide information on an incident, which can help initiate the required measure to reduce the inﬂuence of the incident. To accurately detect incidents in expressways, a Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used in this paper. Since the selection of optimal parameters for the SVM can improve prediction accuracy, the tabu search algorithm is employed to optimize the SVM parameters. The proposed model is evaluated with data for two freeways in China. The results show that the tabu search algorithm can effectively provide better parameter values for the SVM, and SVM models outperform Artiﬁcial Neural Networks (ANNs) in freeway incident detection.</p></abstract>

Automated Incident Detection (AID) is an important part of Advanced Trafﬁc Management and Information Systems (ATMISs). An automated incident detection system can effectively provide information on an incident, which can help initiate the required measure to reduce the inﬂuence of the incident. To accurately detect incidents in expressways, a Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used in this paper. Since the selection of optimal parameters for the SVM can improve prediction accuracy, the tabu search algorithm is employed to optimize the SVM parameters. The proposed model is evaluated with data for two freeways in China. The results show that the tabu search algorithm can effectively provide better parameter values for the SVM, and SVM models outperform Artiﬁcial Neural Networks (ANNs) in freeway incident detection.

A support vector machine with the tabu search algorithm for freeway incident detection

School of Automotive Engineering Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, PR China

High Technology Research and Development Center Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing, PR China

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

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Automated Incident Detection (AID) is an important part of Advanced Trafﬁc Management and Information Systems (ATMISs). An automated incident detection system...

A support vector machine with the tabu search algorithm for freeway incident detection

Published Online: Jun 26, 2014

Page range: 397 - 404

Received: Jul 18, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amcs-2014-0030

Keywords
automated incident detection, support vector machine, tabu search, freeway

© 2014 Baozhen Yao et al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A support vector machine with the tabu search algorithm for freeway incident detection

Published Online: Jun 26, 2014

Page range: 397 - 404

Received: Jul 18, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amcs-2014-0030

Keywordsautomated incident detection, support vector machine, tabu search, freeway

© 2014 Baozhen Yao et al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
automated incident detection, support vector machine, tabu search, freeway