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Urban air quality forecasting based on multi-dimensional collaborative Support Vector Regression (SVR): A case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Shijiazhuang

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  • Bing-Chun Liu
  • Arihant Binaykia
  • Pei-Chann Chang
  • Manoj Kumar Tiwari
  • Cheng-Chin Tsao

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Today, China is facing a very serious issue of Air Pollution due to its dreadful impact on the human health as well as the environment. The urban cities in China are the most affected due to their rapid industrial and economic growth. Therefore, it is of extreme importance to come up with new, better and more reliable forecasting models to accurately predict the air quality. This paper selected Beijing, Tianjin and Shijiazhuang as three cities from the Jingjinji Region for the study to come up with a new model of collaborative forecasting using Support Vector Regression (SVR) for Urban Air Quality Index (AQI) prediction in China. The present study is aimed to improve the forecasting results by minimizing the prediction error of present machine learning algorithms by taking into account multiple city multi-dimensional air quality information and weather conditions as input. The results show that there is a decrease in MAPE in case of multiple city multi-dimensional regression when there is a strong interaction and correlation of the air quality characteristic attributes with AQI. Also, the geographical location is found to play a significant role in Beijing, Tianjin and Shijiazhuang AQI prediction.

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  • Bing-Chun Liu & Arihant Binaykia & Pei-Chann Chang & Manoj Kumar Tiwari & Cheng-Chin Tsao, 2017. "Urban air quality forecasting based on multi-dimensional collaborative Support Vector Regression (SVR): A case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Shijiazhuang," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(7), pages 1-17, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0179763
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179763
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