Spatial-temporal Traffic Flow Prediction Model Based on Dynamic Graph Structure

Abstract

Traffic flow has the characteristics of complex spatial dependence and temporal dependence. Deep learning as a traffic flow prediction method can make full use of the temporal and spatial characteristics of traffic flow. In this paper, the road network is abstracted into a graph structure, the size of the graph structure is dynamically changed, and the graph convolutional neural network (GCN) and the long short term memory network (LSTM) are used to capture the temporal and spatial characteristics of traffic flow to solve the traffic flow prediction problem. Based on the data of vehicle speed in California bay area, the experiment is divided into three prediction scales. The effectiveness of the traffic flow prediction model is verified by experimental comparison.