A Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Model for Lane-Level Traffic Prediction

Traffic prediction aims to predict the future traffic state by mining features from history traffic information, and it is a crucial component for the intelligent transportation system. However, most existing traffic prediction methods focus on road segment prediction while ignore the fine-grained, lane-level traffic prediction. From observations, the authors found that different lanes on the same road segment have similar but not identical patterns of variation. Lane-level traffic prediction can provide more accurate prediction results for humans or autonomous driving systems to make appropriate and efficient decisions. In traffic prediction, the mining of spatial features is an important step and graph-based methods are effective methods. While most existing graph-based methods construct a static adjacent matrix, these methods are difficult to respond to spatio-temporal changes in time. In this paper, the authors propose a deep learning model for lane-level traffic prediction. Specifically, the authors take advantage of the graph convolutional network (GCN) with a data-driven adjacent matrix for spatial feature modeling and treat different lanes of the same road segment as different nodes. The data-driven adjacent matrix consists of the fundamental distance-based adjacent matrix and the dynamic lane correlation matrix. The temporal features are extracted with the gated recurrent unit (GRU). Then, the authors adaptively fuse spatial and temporal features with the gating mechanism to get the final spatio-temporal features for lane-level traffic prediction. Extensive experiments on a real-world dataset validate the effectiveness of the authors' model.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/3208535
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/5121625
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2023 Bao Li et al.
• Authors:
  • Li, Bao
  • Yang, Quan
  • Chen, Jianjiang
  • Yu, Dongjin
  • Wang, Dongjing
  • Wan, Feng
• Publication Date: 2023-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: Article ID 3208535
• Serial:
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Volume: 2023
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0197-6729
  • EISSN: 2042-3195
  • Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2042-3195
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Intelligent transportation systems; Machine learning; Predictive models; Traffic characteristics; Traffic data; Traffic lanes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01877964
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 2023 9:30AM