The study focuses on employing clustering techniques to analyze traffic flow data and detect anomalies, including sensor failures and irregular congestion events.
Multiple clustering approaches are explored, including partitioning and hierarchical methods, paired with various time-series representations and similarity measures.
Hierarchical clustering with symbolic representations is found to provide robust segmentation of traffic patterns, while partitioning methods like k-means and fuzzy c-means yield meaningful results when paired with Dynamic Time Warping.
The proposed anomaly detection strategy successfully identifies sensor malfunctions and abnormal traffic conditions with minimal false positives, making it useful for real-time monitoring.