Title
Forecasting Transportation Network Speed Using Deep Capsule Networks With Nested LSTM Models
Abstract
Accurate and reliable traffic forecasting for complicated transportation networks is of vital importance to modern transportation management. The complicated spatial dependencies of roadway links and the dynamic temporal patterns of traffic states make it particularly challenging. To address these challenges, we propose a new capsule network (CapsNet) to extract the spatial features of traffic networks and utilize a nested LSTM (NLSTM) structure to capture the hierarchical temporal dependencies in traffic sequence data. A framework for network-level traffic forecasting is also proposed by sequentially connecting CapsNet and NLSTM. On the basis of literature review, our study is the first to adopt CapsNet and NLSTM in the field of traffic forecasting. An experiment on a Beijing transportation network with 278 links shows that the proposed framework with the capability of capturing complicated spatiotemporal traffic patterns outperforms multiple state-of-the-art traffic forecasting baseline models. The superiority and feasibility of CapsNet and NLSTM are also demonstrated, respectively, by visualizing and quantitatively evaluating the experimental results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TITS.2020.2984813
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Capsule network,LSTM,traffic prediction,spatial and temporal dependency,transportation network
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
1524-9050
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaolei Ma120315.59
Houyue Zhong210.36
Yi Li310.36
Junyan Ma410.36
zhiyong cui5593.61
Yinhai Wang629239.37