Multibranch Adaptive Fusion Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Prediction

Urban road networks have complex spatial and temporal correlations, driving a surge of research interest in spatial-temporal traffic flow prediction. However, prior approaches often overlook the temporal-scale differentiation of spatial-temporal features, limiting their ability to extract complex st...

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Main Authors: Xin Zan, Jasmine Siu Lee Lam
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023-01-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Transportation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/8256907
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description Urban road networks have complex spatial and temporal correlations, driving a surge of research interest in spatial-temporal traffic flow prediction. However, prior approaches often overlook the temporal-scale differentiation of spatial-temporal features, limiting their ability to extract complex structural information. In this work, we design the multibranch adaptive fusion graph convolutional network (MBAF-GCN) that explicitly exploits the prior spatial-temporal characteristics at different temporal scales, and each branch is responsible for extracting spatial-temporal features at a specific scale. Besides, we design the spatial-temporal feature fusion (STFF) module to refine the prediction results. Based on the multibranch complementary features, the module adopts a coarse-to-fine fusion strategy, incorporating different spatial-temporal scale features to obtain recalibrated prediction results. Finally, we evaluate the MBAF-GCN using two real-world traffic datasets. Experimentally, the newly designed multibranch can efficaciously utilize the prior information of different temporal scales. Our MBAF-GCN achieved better performance in the comparative model, indicating its potential and validity.
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spelling doaj-art-721846a63c564697bcc0d6c3790243ae2025-08-20T03:19:07ZengWileyJournal of Advanced Transportation2042-31952023-01-01202310.1155/2023/8256907Multibranch Adaptive Fusion Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow PredictionXin Zan0Jasmine Siu Lee Lam1Antai College of Economics & ManagementSchool of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUrban road networks have complex spatial and temporal correlations, driving a surge of research interest in spatial-temporal traffic flow prediction. However, prior approaches often overlook the temporal-scale differentiation of spatial-temporal features, limiting their ability to extract complex structural information. In this work, we design the multibranch adaptive fusion graph convolutional network (MBAF-GCN) that explicitly exploits the prior spatial-temporal characteristics at different temporal scales, and each branch is responsible for extracting spatial-temporal features at a specific scale. Besides, we design the spatial-temporal feature fusion (STFF) module to refine the prediction results. Based on the multibranch complementary features, the module adopts a coarse-to-fine fusion strategy, incorporating different spatial-temporal scale features to obtain recalibrated prediction results. Finally, we evaluate the MBAF-GCN using two real-world traffic datasets. Experimentally, the newly designed multibranch can efficaciously utilize the prior information of different temporal scales. Our MBAF-GCN achieved better performance in the comparative model, indicating its potential and validity.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/8256907
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Multibranch Adaptive Fusion Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Prediction
Journal of Advanced Transportation
title Multibranch Adaptive Fusion Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Prediction
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title_fullStr Multibranch Adaptive Fusion Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Prediction
title_full_unstemmed Multibranch Adaptive Fusion Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Prediction
title_short Multibranch Adaptive Fusion Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Prediction
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