Visible to the public GST-GCN: A Geographic-Semantic-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network for Context-aware Traffic Flow Prediction on Graph Sequences

TitleGST-GCN: A Geographic-Semantic-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network for Context-aware Traffic Flow Prediction on Graph Sequences
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsChen, J., Liao, S., Hou, J., Wang, K., Wen, J.
Conference Name2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)
Date Publishedoct
Keywordscompositionality, convolution, Cyber Dependencies, Deep Learning, graph convolutional network, human factors, Measurement, Meteorology, Metrics, Predictive models, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, Semantics, Spatio-temporal convolution, Three-dimensional displays, Traffic flow prediction
AbstractTraffic flow prediction is an important foundation for intelligent transportation systems. The traffic data are generated from a traffic network and evolved dynamically. So spatio-temporal relation exploration plays a support role on traffic data analysis. Most researches focus on spatio-temporal information fusion through a convolution operation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to suggest that it is necessary to distinguish the two aspects of spatial correlations and propose the two types of spatial graphs, named as geographic graph and semantic graph. Then two novel stereo convolutions with irregular acceptive fields are proposed. The geographic-semantic-temporal contexts are dynamically jointly captured through performing the proposed convolutions on graph sequences. We propose a geographic-semantic-temporal graph convolutional network (GST-GCN) model that combines our graph convolutions and GRU units hierarchically in a unified end-to-end network. The experiment results on the Caltrans Performance Measurement System (PeMS) dataset show that our proposed model significantly outperforms other popular spatio-temporal deep learning models and suggest the effectiveness to explore geographic-semantic-temporal dependencies on deep learning models for traffic flow prediction.
DOI10.1109/SMC42975.2020.9282828
Citation Keychen_gst-gcn_2020