“…In recent years, the popularization of seamless links among heterogeneous traffic equipment brought about higher requirements on the real-time and reliability of short-term traffic flow prediction. With continuous improvement of traffic information processing, how to predict the short-term traffic flow accurately and effectively has aroused wide attention of scholars domestically and abroad [1][2][3], whereupon numerous of prominent research results have emerged. So far, relevant academic circles mainly focus on the construction and optimization of prediction models in terms of time series, linear regression, historical average model, Kalman filtering, grey theory, chaos theory, nonparametric regression, neural network, support vector machine, dynamic traffic assignment model, and so forth [4][5][6][7][8][9].…”