Vehicle Traffic Estimation Using Deep Learning
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Abstract
For commuters, vehicular traffic is an important planning concern. People have access to the weather forecast and the current traffic situation, but there is no application available to estimate traffic congestion and flow in the near future. Thus, we design and develop a machine learning approach which can predict vehicular traffic density and flowrate up to two days in the future based on the weather, calendar and special events data.First, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks are utilized to predict the number of new vehicles and the total number of vehicles in images captured by a Nova Scotia Webcams (NS Webcams) video camera. The best models provide a Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of 20.38% for the number of new vehicles and 18.56% for the total number of vehicles. These values are used to estimate traffic flowrate and density for hourly records over a three-month period.The hourly traffic data is combined with observed and forecasted weather data, and special event data to create a time series data. A Multiple Task Learning (MTL) - LSTM model is trained and tested using these data and a K-fold cross-validation approach. The Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and MAPE are used to evaluate the model performance. The MTL-LSTM model achieves a MAPE of 19.35% and 27.50% for flowrate and density using observed weather data, respectively. In the case of forecasted weather data, the MAPE for flowrate and density increases to 20.51% and 31.10%, respectively.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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