Title
Attention-Enabled Network-level Traffic Speed Prediction
Abstract
Traffic forecasting is critical for the planning and monitoring of modern urban systems. Time-series and junior machine learning methods are either point-based and rely on unrealistic assumptions, or fail to capture the dynamics of the complex traffic network (e.g., non-Euclidean and spatiotemporal). New models need (1) to represent efficiently the spatial dependency of transportation network, and (2) to model nonlinear temporal dynamics simultaneously. They are also expected to forecast for multiple time steps, i.e., long-term. This study investigates a highway sensor network as a graph. Specifically, the level of road network details required for graph deep learning is first discussed. Secondly, this paper proposes a new graph deep learning model enabling attention mechanism to predict speeds in the network. It captures spatial dependencies with adjacency matrices and graph convolutions, and learns temporal information with a recurrent neural network (RNN) structure. Lastly, performance of the proposed model is compared with literature on a real-world dataset. Experiments show that physical roadway linkages are sufficient for the representation, and the proposed attention-enabled model performs better in the prediction task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239036
2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
traffic speed prediction,diffusion-inspired graph convolutional network,graph attention
Conference
2687-8852
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-8295-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuyi Yin100.34
Jiahui Wang200.34
Zhiyong Cui300.34
Yinhai Wang429239.37