Journal of Xidian University ›› 2023, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (5): 65-74.doi: 10.19665/j.issn1001-2400.20221101

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Traffic flow prediction method for integrating longitudinal and horizontal spatiotemporal characteristics

HOU Yue(),ZHENG Xin(),HAN Chengyan()   

  1. School of Electronics and Information Engineering,Lanzhou Jiaotong University,Lanzhou 730070,China
  • Received:2022-08-03 Online:2023-10-20 Published:2023-11-21

Abstract:

Aiming at the problems of insufficient mining of time delay characteristics and spatial flow characteristics of upstream and downstream traffic flow as well as insufficient consideration of spatiotemporal characteristics of lane-level traffic flow in existing urban road traffic flow prediction research,a traffic flow prediction method for integrating longitudinal and horizontal spatiotemporal characteristics is proposed.First,the method quantifies and eliminates the effect of spatial time lag between upstream and downstream traffic flow by calculating the delay time to enhance the spatiotemporal correlation of upstream and downstream traffic flow sequences.Then,the traffic flow with the elimination of spatial time lag is passed into the bidirectional long short-term memory network through the vector split data input method to capture the longitudinal transmission and backtracking bidirectional spatiotemporal relationship of upstream and downstream traffic flow.At the same time,the multiscale convolution group is used to mine the multi-time step horizontal spatiotemporal relationship between the traffic flows of each lane in the section to be predicted.Finally,the attention mechanism is used to dynamically fuse the longitudinal and horizontal spatiotemporal characteristics to obtain the predicted value.Experimental results show that by applying the proposed method in the single-step prediction experiment,the MAE and RMSE decrease by 15.26% and 13.83% respectively,and increase by 1.25% compared with conventional time series prediction model.In the medium and long-term multi-step prediction experiment,it is further proved that the proposed method can effectively mine the fine-grained spatiotemporal characteristics of longitudinal and horizontal traffic flow,and has a certain stability and universality.

Key words: urban transportation, traffic flow prediction, longitudinal and horizontal spatiotemporal correlation, deep learning, feature fusion

CLC Number: 

  • U491