Traffic prediction is vital to traffic planning, control, and optimization, which is necessary for intelligent traffic management. Existing methods mostly capture spatiotemporal correlations on a fine-grained traffic graph, which cannot make full use of cluster information in coarse-grained traffic graph. However, the flow variation of clusters in the coarse-grained traffic graph is more stable compared with nodes in the fine-grained traffic graph. And the flow variation of a fine-grained node is generally consistent with the trend of the cluster to which the node belongs. Thus information in the coarse-grained traffic graph can guide feature learning in the fine-grained traffic graph. To this end, we propose a Spatiotemporal Multiscale Graph Convolutional Network (SMGCN) that explores spatiotemporal correlations on a multiscale graph. Specifically, given a fine-grained traffic graph, we first generate a coarse-grained traffic graph by graph clustering, and extract spatiotemporal correlations on both fine-grained and coarse-grained traffic graphs. Then we propose a cross-scale fusion (CF) to implement information diffusion between the fine-grained and coarse-grained traffic graphs. Moreover, we employ an adaptive dynamic graph convolution network to mine both static and dynamic spatial features. We evaluate SMGCN on real-world datasets and obtain a $1.18\% -3.32\%$ improvement over state-of-the-arts.


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    Title :

    A Spatiotemporal Multiscale Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Prediction


    Contributors:
    Cao, Shuqin (author) / Wu, Libing (author) / Zhang, Rui (author) / Wu, Dan (author) / Cui, Jianqun (author) / Chang, Yanan (author)


    Publication date :

    2024-08-01


    Size :

    11239547 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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