“…Another extensive group of methods that have become popular in predicting traffic flow data due to its non-linear nature are machine learning algorithms [65]. In particular, these include artificial neural networks [31,33,43,55], support vector machines (SVM) [13,23,30,66,68], k-nearest neighbors [3,19,23,30,47], and random forests [8,10,47]. In contrast to statistical approaches, they provide higher accuracy and flexibility of traffic prediction.…”