A first step towards road traffic short-term prediction using multifractal tools.

This study presents a first approach to short-term forecasting of traffic flow using multifractal analysis. The acquisition time is assumed very small (1 minute in this case). This yields highly irregular data well suited to multifractal analysis. The study performs predictions with different horizons (from 1 minute to 15 minutes). The study presents a possible improvement to the approach based on multinomial measures and recent results on multifractal correlations.