scholarly journals The Deep 3D Convolutional Multi-Branching Spatial-Temporal-Based Unit Predicting Citywide Traffic Flow

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zain Ul Abideen ◽  
Heli Sun ◽  
Zhou Yang ◽  
Amir Ali

Recently, for public safety and traffic management, traffic flow prediction is a crucial task. The citywide traffic flow problem is still a big challenge in big cities because of many complex factors. However, to handle some complex factors, e.g., spatial-temporal and some external factors in the intelligent traffic flow forecasting problem, spatial-temporal data for urban applications (i.e., travel time estimation, trajectory planning, taxi demand, traffic congestion, and the regional rainfall) is inherently stochastic and unpredictable. In this paper, we proposed a deep learning-based novel model called “multi-branching spatial-temporal attention-based long-short term memory residual unit (MBSTALRU)” for the citywide traffic flow from lower-level layers to high-level layers, simultaneously. In our work, initially, we have modeled the traffic flow with spatial correlations multiple 3D volume layers and propose the novel multi-branching scheme to control the spatial-temporal features. Our approach is useful for exploring temporal dependencies through the 3D convolutional neural network (CNN) multiple branches, which aim to merge the spatial-temporal characteristics of historical data with three-time intervals, namely closeness, daily, and weekly, and we have embedded features by attention-based long-short term memory (LSTM). Then, we capture the correlation between traffic inflow and outflow with residual layers units. In the end, we merge the external factors dynamically to predict citywide traffic flow simultaneously. The simulation results have been performed on two real-world datasets, BJTaxi and NYCBike, which show better performance and effectiveness of the proposed method than previous state-of-the-art models.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2107 (1) ◽  
pp. 012006
Author(s):  
Lee Pin Loon ◽  
Elbaraa Refaie ◽  
Ahmad Athif Mohd Faudzi

Abstract This paper proposes data analysis for traffic flow prediction of customs to help the officer in Customs, Immigration, and Quarantine (CIQ) Complex to understand more about the traffic situation in CIQ. Currently in CIQ, the traffic behaviour for car is unpredictable; sometimes the traffic is very heavy while there are times where all the lanes are cleared. There is a plan to have installation of cameras for smart traffic management system in the future. Therefore, this research aims to have prediction of traffic flow based on time and visualize the trend of traffic data for the officer. The data consist of traffic flow and the respective timestamp. To analyse it with time-series data, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Recurrent Network is used as deep learning approach for prediction. The data pre-processing and training of model would be done using Python. To organize the data, Tableau Prep Builder is used and integrate with Python to publish the data to Tableau Server for storage. An interactive dashboard would be designed on Tableau and made available online for the usage of the officer.


Author(s):  
Lei Lin ◽  
Siyuan Gong ◽  
Srinivas Peeta ◽  
Xia Wu

The advent of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) will change driving behavior and travel environment, and provide opportunities for safer, smoother, and smarter road transportation. During the transition from the current human-driven vehicles (HDVs) to a fully CAV traffic environment, the road traffic will consist of a “mixed” traffic flow of HDVs and CAVs. Equipped with multiple sensors and vehicle-to-vehicle communications, a CAV can track surrounding HDVs and receive trajectory data of other CAVs in communication range. These trajectory data can be leveraged with recent advances in deep learning methods to potentially predict the trajectories of a target HDV. Based on these predictions, CAVs can react to circumvent or mitigate traffic flow oscillations and accidents. This study develops attention-based long short-term memory (LSTM) models for HDV longitudinal trajectory prediction in a mixed flow environment. The model and a few other LSTM variants are tested on the Next Generation Simulation US 101 dataset with different CAV market penetration rates (MPRs). Results illustrate that LSTM models that utilize historical trajectories from surrounding CAVs perform much better than those that ignore information even when the MPR is as low as 0.2. The attention-based LSTM models can provide more accurate multi-step longitudinal trajectory predictions. Further, grid-level average attention weight analysis is conducted and the CAVs with higher impact on the target HDV’s future trajectories are identified.


Informatica ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Bruno Fernandes ◽  
Fabio Silva ◽  
Hector Alaiz-Moreton ◽  
Paulo Novais ◽  
Jose Neves ◽  
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Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (13) ◽  
pp. 2946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wangyang Wei ◽  
Honghai Wu ◽  
Huadong Ma

Smart cities can effectively improve the quality of urban life. Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is an important part of smart cities. The accurate and real-time prediction of traffic flow plays an important role in ITSs. To improve the prediction accuracy, we propose a novel traffic flow prediction method, called AutoEncoder Long Short-Term Memory (AE-LSTM) prediction method. In our method, the AutoEncoder is used to obtain the internal relationship of traffic flow by extracting the characteristics of upstream and downstream traffic flow data. Moreover, the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network utilizes the acquired characteristic data and the historical data to predict complex linear traffic flow data. The experimental results show that the AE-LSTM method had higher prediction accuracy. Specifically, the Mean Relative Error (MRE) of the AE-LSTM was reduced by 0.01 compared with the previous prediction methods. In addition, AE-LSTM method also had good stability. For different stations and different dates, the prediction error and fluctuation of the AE-LSTM method was small. Furthermore, the average MRE of AE-LSTM prediction results was 0.06 for six different days.


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