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Scalable Deep Traffic Flow Neural Networks for Urban Traffic Congestion Prediction
Tracking congestion throughout the network road is a critical component of
Intelligent transportation network management systems. Understanding how the
traffic flows and short-term prediction of congestion occurrence due to
rush-hour or incidents can be beneficial to such systems to effectively manage
and direct the traffic to the most appropriate detours. Many of the current
traffic flow prediction systems are designed by utilizing a central processing
component where the prediction is carried out through aggregation of the
information gathered from all measuring stations. However, centralized systems
are not scalable and fail provide real-time feedback to the system whereas in a
decentralized scheme, each node is responsible to predict its own short-term
congestion based on the local current measurements in neighboring nodes.
We propose a decentralized deep learning-based method where each node
accurately predicts its own congestion state in real-time based on the
congestion state of the neighboring stations. Moreover, historical data from
the deployment site is not required, which makes the proposed method more
suitable for newly installed stations. In order to achieve higher performance,
we introduce a regularized Euclidean loss function that favors high congestion
samples over low congestion samples to avoid the impact of the unbalanced
training dataset. A novel dataset for this purpose is designed based on the
traffic data obtained from traffic control stations in northern California.
Extensive experiments conducted on the designed benchmark reflect a successful
congestion prediction
Correlating sparse sensing for large-scale traffic speed estimation: A Laplacian-enhanced low-rank tensor kriging approach
Traffic speed is central to characterizing the fluidity of the road network.
Many transportation applications rely on it, such as real-time navigation,
dynamic route planning, and congestion management. Rapid advances in sensing
and communication techniques make traffic speed detection easier than ever.
However, due to sparse deployment of static sensors or low penetration of
mobile sensors, speeds detected are incomplete and far from network-wide use.
In addition, sensors are prone to error or missing data due to various kinds of
reasons, speeds from these sensors can become highly noisy. These drawbacks
call for effective techniques to recover credible estimates from the incomplete
data. In this work, we first identify the issue as a spatiotemporal kriging
problem and propose a Laplacian enhanced low-rank tensor completion (LETC)
framework featuring both lowrankness and multi-dimensional correlations for
large-scale traffic speed kriging under limited observations. To be specific,
three types of speed correlation including temporal continuity, temporal
periodicity, and spatial proximity are carefully chosen and simultaneously
modeled by three different forms of graph Laplacian, named temporal graph
Fourier transform, generalized temporal consistency regularization, and
diffusion graph regularization. We then design an efficient solution algorithm
via several effective numeric techniques to scale up the proposed model to
network-wide kriging. By performing experiments on two public million-level
traffic speed datasets, we finally draw the conclusion and find our proposed
LETC achieves the state-of-the-art kriging performance even under low
observation rates, while at the same time saving more than half computing time
compared with baseline methods. Some insights into spatiotemporal traffic data
modeling and kriging at the network level are provided as well
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