Abstract:Based on the analysis of the fundamental characteristics of the field traffic system and traffic flow,this paper presents a new method of traffic flow prediction.The theory of wavelet analysis is applied to eliminating the noise from the realtime traffic data to better reflect a real traffic flow.Based on the processed traffic data,the timeseries model,autoregressive integrated moving average model(ARIMA)is used to predict traffic flows in different periods.Finally,the paper presents numerical examples on the field data to testify the the proposed model.