Research Article

Traffic Management as a Service: The Traffic Flow Pattern Classification Problem

Table 6

Benefits of the proposed heuristic in terms of aggregation gain.

Target heuristic Number of elements Aggregation gains Independent modeling domains

Monthly patterns per year 12 12 : 3 3

Daily patterns per month 421 30 30 : 7 12
Traffic intensity analysis 421 : 292
Street clustering (292 7) : 18
Similar days clustering 18 : 16
Daily pattern analysis 16 : 12

Total 151,560421036