Revisiting the empirical fundamental relationship of traffic flow for highways using a causal econometric approach
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用因果计量方法重新估计高速公路交通流基本关系
- 研究问题
- 驾驶行为、天气等遗漏因素会如何扭曲交通流量与密度的经验关系，能否通过因果方法校正这种内生性偏差？
- 方法与思路
- 作者结合工具变量与贝叶斯非参数样条回归，使用交通检测器数据估计流量—密度关系，并在美国三个瓶颈路段比较。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称相关性曲线拟合可能严重扭曲超拥堵区间及容量、容量下降估计，并提出基于车辆运动物理规律的因果分析路径。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对工具变量的构造、相关性与排除限制、物理规律如何支持识别，以及容量和容量下降估计的不确定性。
- 阅读边界
- 这是 arXiv 预印本，不能据此确认同行评审或期刊接收；摘要未说明具体工具变量及有效性条件，无法据此确认无偏性。
原文摘要
The fundamental relationship of traffic flow is empirically estimated by fitting a regression curve to a cloud of observations of traffic variables. Such estimates, however, may suffer from the confounding/endogeneity bias due to omitted variables such as driving behaviour and weather. To this end, this paper adopts a causal approach to obtain an unbiased estimate of the fundamental flow-density relationship using traffic detector data. In particular, we apply a Bayesian non-parametric spline-based regression approach with instrumental variables to adjust for the aforementioned confounding bias. The proposed approach is benchmarked against standard curve-fitting methods in estimating the flow-density relationship for three highway bottlenecks in the United States. Our empirical results suggest that the saturated (or hypercongested) regime of the estimated flow-density relationship using correlational curve fitting methods may be severely biased, which in turn leads to biased estimates of important traffic control inputs such as capacity and capacity-drop. We emphasise that our causal approach is based on the physical laws of vehicle movement in a traffic stream as opposed to a demand-supply framework adopted in the economics literature. By doing so, we also aim to conciliate the engineering and economics approaches to this empirical problem. Our results, thus, have important implications both for traffic engineers and transport economists.