Research Article

Forecasting the Short-Term Traffic Flow in the Intelligent Transportation System Based on an Inertia Nonhomogenous Discrete Gray Model

Table 2

Comparison of simulative and predictive results between the SINDGM and TINDGM for August 23.

Serial numberFree flow SINDGM TINDGM Free flow (steady flow)SINDGM TINDGM
Simulated dataSimulated dataSimulated dataSimulated data

114.00114.00114.00114.75114.75114.75
116.75113.17114.57112.75114.82113.84
119.50113.84123.65115.50114.72121.70
126.00113.97125.41131.25114.76118.81
129.50113.98125.76112.75114.75119.87
125.75113.99125.82123.00114.75119.48
120.00114.00125.83116.25114.74119.63
131.00114.00125.84117.25114.75119.57
MAPE0.07970.02480.03850.0427

Forecasted dataForecasted dataForecasted dataForecasted data

127.50114.00125.84117.75114.75119.57
117.25114.00125.84113.00114.75119.59
127.25114.00125.84125.25114.75119.58
114.75114.00125.84109.75114.75119.59
MAPE0.06110.04850.04260.0522