Traffic Dataset Research Articles

Cost analysis of IPv6 distributed mobility management protocols in comparison with TFMIPv6.

The past decade has witnessed a significant evolution in the role of the Internet, transitioning from individual connectivity to an integral aspect of various domains. This shift has prompted a move in IP paradigms from hierarchical to distributed architectures characterized by decentralized structures. This transition empowers efficient data routing and management across diverse networks. However, traditional distributed mobility management (DMM) protocols, reliant on tunneling mechanisms, incur overheads, costs, and delays, exacerbating challenges in managing the exponential growth of mobile data traffic. This research proposes Tunnel-Free Mobility for IPv6 (TFMIPv6) as a solution to address the shortcomings of existing DMM protocols. TFMIPv6 eliminates the need for tunneling, simplifying routing processes and reducing latency. A comprehensive cost analysis and performance evaluation are conducted, comparing TFMIPv6 with traditional protocols such as MIPv6, PMIPv6, FMIPv6, and HMIPv6. The study reveals significant improvements with TFMIPv6. Signaling costs are reduced by 50%, packet delivery costs by 23%, and tunneling costs are completely eliminated (100%). Real-world network traffic datasets are used for simulation, providing statistical evidence of TFMIPv6's efficacy in supporting an uninterrupted movement of IPv6 data across networks.

WVETT-Net: A Novel Hybrid Prediction Model for Wireless Network Traffic Based on Variational Mode Decomposition

Precise prediction of wireless communication network traffic is indispensable in the operational deployment of base station resources and improvement of the user experience. Cellular wireless network traffic has both spatial and temporal characteristics. The existing modeling algorithms have achieved good results in extracting the spatial features, but there are still deficiencies in the extraction models for the time dependencies. To resolve these problems, this paper proposes a novel hybrid neural network prediction model, called WVETT-Net. Firstly, variational mode decomposition (VMD) is used to preprocess network traffic, and the whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is used to select the optimal parameters for VMD. Secondly, the local and global features are extracted from each subsequence by a temporal convolutional network (TCN) and an improved Transformer network with a multi-head ProbSparse self-attention mechanism (Pe-Transformer), respectively. Finally, the extracted feature representation is enhanced by using an efficient channel attention (ECA) mechanism to achieve accurate wireless network traffic predictions. Experimental results on two wireless network traffic datasets show that the proposed model (WVETT-Net) outperforms the traditional single or combined models in wireless network traffic prediction.

One Size Fits All: A Unified Traffic Predictor for Capturing the Essential Spatial-Temporal Dependency.

Traffic prediction is a keystone for building smart cities in the new era and has found wide applications in traffic scheduling and management, environment policy making, public safety, and so on. Instead of creating a traffic predictor for each city, this article focuses on designing a unified network model that could be directly applied for traffic prediction in any city, by learning the essential spatial-temporal dependencies, i.e., the mutual relationship between traffic and the corresponding fine-grained road network. To achieve this goal, this article proposes a joint knowledge- and data-driven mechanism that novelly divides dependencies into three kinds of correlations, i.e., road segment, intra-intersection, and inter-intersection correlation, which capture the microcosmic, middle, and macroscopic dependencies between traffic and the road network, respectively. Specifically, we first construct traffic datasets that could cover all road segments from real-world trajectory datasets, which makes it possible to model the whole road network as a graph, with the help of fine-grained road topology. Then, we propose meta road segment learner, connection-aware spatial-temporal graph convolutional network (GCN), and multiscale residual networks for capturing the microcosmic, middle, and macroscopic dependencies, respectively. Our experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate that our proposed method could: 1) achieve better prediction accuracy compared with several approaches and 2) capture the mutual relationship between traffic and the fine-grained road network since our model trained only using data from the source city achieves good performance when it is directly applied for traffic prediction in the target city, without any fine-tuning. The codes will be made publicly available.

O'Hare Airport roadway traffic prediction via data fusion and Gaussian process regression

This study proposes an approach of leveraging information gathered from multiple traffic data sources at different resolutions to obtain approximate inference on the traffic distribution of Chicago's O'Hare Airport area. Specifically, it proposes the ingestion of traffic datasets at different resolutions to build spatiotemporal models for predicting the distribution of traffic volume on the road network. Due to its good adaptability and flexibility for spatiotemporal data, the Gaussian process (GP) regression was employed to provide short-term forecasts using data collected by loop detectors (sensors) and supplemented by telematics data. The GP regression is used to make predictions of the distribution of the proportion of sensor data traffic volume represented by the telematics data for each location of the sensors. Consequently, the fitted GP model can be used to determine the approximate traffic distribution for a testing location outside of the training points. Policymakers in the transportation sector can find the results of this work helpful for making informed decisions relating to current and future transportation conditions in the area.

A Knee-Guided Evolutionary Algorithm for Multi-Objective Air Traffic Flow Management

Air traffic flow management plays a crucial role in efficient aviation. Most existing studies assume the flight speed as constant throughout the trip, leading to ineffective fixed-speed schedules. To address this issue, we propose a new problem model, which allows variable speed control to improve the flexibility and maneuverability of the management. In addition, we consider two conflicting objectives, which are minimizing the total flight delays and conflicts between flights, where the conflicts depend on the flight 4D trajectories (3D position plus time). To solve this new challenging problem, we propose a novel multi-objective evolutionary algorithm with new problem-specific individual representation and search operators. Specifically, the multi-chromosomes encoding scheme is designed to adapt to different types of operations. Then, to search the huge search space effectively, we develop a hybrid crossover operator that recombines the parents based on their flight routes. Furthermore, to balance the exploration and exploitation, we develop a new mutation strategy to utilize the heterogeneous search potential of different individuals. For exploitation, the knee individual in the Pareto front is improved by a new time shift operator for exploitation, and other non-dominated solutions are mutated by fixed-route mutation. For exploration, the dominated solutions are mutated randomly. To verify the effectiveness, we compare it with the real air traffic flow management schedules and the state-of-the-art algorithms on a range of real-world air traffic datasets. Extensive results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly outperform the baselines in generating safe and efficient 4D trajectories.

Proposal of Temporal Feature Layers for Network Traffic Dataset Generation Using C-GAN

Proposal of Temporal Feature Layers for Network Traffic Dataset Generation Using C-GAN

Contrastive optimized graph convolution network for traffic forecasting

Traffic forecasting is an increasingly important research topic in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). In this field, prediction models based on Graph Convolution Networks (GCN) have become very popular. Most GCN-based models focus on constructing various optimized or dynamic road network graphs to represent the spatio-temporal correlation hidden in traffic data. However, these methods currently only consider the construction of a single improved road network graph and ignore the relationship of these existing optimized road network graphs. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a Contrastive Optimized Graph Convolution Network (COGCN) to connect two kinds of optimized road network graphs and maintain their global–local feature consistency through contrastive learning. The proposed COGCN model is evaluated in detail using four real traffic datasets: two traffic speed datasets and two traffic flow datasets. Experimental results show that COGCN improves forecasting accuracy by at least 2% on the two speed datasets and 9% on the two flow datasets compared to the existing state-of-the-art GCN-based methods.

SaBi3d—A LiDAR Point Cloud Data Set of Car-to-Bicycle Overtaking Maneuvers

While cycling presents environmental benefits and promotes a healthy lifestyle, the risks associated with overtaking maneuvers by motorized vehicles represent a significant barrier for many potential cyclists. A large-scale analysis of overtaking maneuvers could inform traffic researchers and city planners how to reduce these risks by better understanding these maneuvers. Drawing from the fields of sensor-based cycling research and from LiDAR-based traffic data sets, this paper provides a step towards addressing these safety concerns by introducing the Salzburg Bicycle 3d (SaBi3d) data set, which consists of LiDAR point clouds capturing car-to-bicycle overtaking maneuvers. The data set, collected using a LiDAR-equipped bicycle, facilitates the detailed analysis of a large quantity of overtaking maneuvers without the need for manual annotation through enabling automatic labeling by a neural network. Additionally, a benchmark result for 3D object detection using a competitive neural network is provided as a baseline for future research. The SaBi3d data set is structured identically to the nuScenes data set, and therefore offers compatibility with numerous existing object detection systems. This work provides valuable resources for future researchers to better understand cycling infrastructure and mitigate risks, thus promoting cycling as a viable mode of transportation.

Spatio-Temporal Parallel Transformer based model for Traffic Prediction

Traffic forecasting problems involve jointly modeling the non-linear spatio-temporal dependencies at different scales. While Graph Neural Network models have been effectively used to capture the non-linear spatial dependencies, capturing the dynamic spatial dependencies between the locations remains a major challenge. The errors in capturing such dependencies propagate in modeling the temporal dependencies between the locations, thereby severely affecting the performance of long-term predictions. While transformer-based mechanisms have been recently proposed for capturing the dynamic spatial dependencies, these methods are susceptible to fluctuations in data brought on by unforeseen events like traffic congestion and accidents. To mitigate these issues we propose an improvised Spatio-temporal parallel transformer (STPT) based model for traffic prediction that uses multiple adjacency graphs passed through a pair of coupled graph transformer-convolution network units, operating in parallel, to generate more noise-resilient embeddings. We conduct extensive experiments on 4 real-world traffic datasets and compare the performance of STPT with several state-of-the-art baselines, in terms of measures like RMSE, MAE, and MAPE. We find that using STPT improves the performance by around \(10-34\%\) as compared to the baselines. We also investigate the applicability of the model on other spatio-temporal data in other domains. We use a covid-19 dataset to predict the number of future occurrences in different regions from a given set of historical occurrences. The results demonstrate the superiority of our model for such datasets.

Adaptive Decision Spatio-temporal neural ODE for traffic flow forecasting with Multi-Kernel Temporal Dynamic Dilation Convolution

Traffic flow prediction is crucial for efficient traffic management. It involves predicting vehicle movement patterns to reduce congestion and enhance traffic flow. However, the highly non-linear and complex patterns commonly observed in traffic flow pose significant challenges for this task. Current Graph Neural Network (GNN) models often construct shallow networks, which limits their ability to extract deeper spatio-temporal representations. Neural ordinary differential equations for traffic prediction address over-smoothing but require significant computational resources, leading to inefficiencies, and sometimes deeper networks may lead to poorer predictions for complex traffic information. In this study, we propose an Adaptive Decision spatio-temporal Neural Ordinary Differential Network, which can adaptively determine the number of layers of ODE according to the complexity of traffic information. It can solve the over-smoothing problem better, improving overall efficiency and prediction accuracy. In addition, traditional temporal convolution methods make it difficult to deal with complex and variable traffic time information with a large time span. Therefore, we introduce a multi-kernel temporal dynamic expansive convolution to handle the traffic time information. Multi-kernel temporal dynamic expansive convolution employs a dynamic dilation strategy, dynamically adjusting the network’s receptive field across levels, effectively capturing temporal dependencies, and can better adapt to the changing time data of traffic information. Additionally, multi-kernel temporal dynamic expansive convolution integrates multi-scale convolution kernels, enabling the model to learn features across diverse temporal scales. We evaluated our proposed method on several real-world traffic datasets. Experimental results show that our method outperformed state-of-the-art benchmarks.

Spatiotemporal information enhanced multi-feature short-term traffic flow prediction.

Accurately predicting traffic flow is crucial for optimizing traffic conditions, reducing congestion, and improving travel efficiency. To explore spatiotemporal characteristics of traffic flow in depth, this study proposes the MFSTBiSGAT model. The MFSTBiSGAT model leverages graph attention networks to extract dynamic spatial features from complex road networks, and utilizes bidirectional long short-term memory networks to capture temporal correlations from both past and future time perspectives. Additionally, spatial and temporal information enhancement layers are employed to comprehensively capture traffic flow patterns. The model aims to directly extract original temporal features from traffic flow data, and utilizes the Spearman function to extract hidden spatial matrices of road networks for deeper insights into spatiotemporal characteristics. Historical traffic speed and lane occupancy data are integrated into the prediction model to reduce forecasting errors and enhance robustness. Experimental results on two real-world traffic datasets demonstrate that MFSTBiSGAT successfully extracts and captures spatiotemporal correlations in traffic networks, significantly improving prediction accuracy.

Assessing wayside traffic noise levels using long-term noise monitoring and available Department of Transportation traffic data - worst-case noise traffic conditions, effects of repaving, and methods for comparing traffic noise data sets

The availability of automated continuous traffic data from State Departments of Transportation (DOTs), such as the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Performance Measurement System (PeMS), provides increased opportunities for the analysis of highway noise. Traffic data that is free to access and downloadable via the internet can be matched with unattended long-term noise measurement data to provide large datasets for analysis, without requiring field staff to be continuously on site. A 2018 ICF/Caltrans paper documented how this approach was used on an operating freeway to determine the volume of traffic that results in the highest one-hour energy average traffic noise level. At the time of those measurements, the subject freeway had Portland cement concrete pavement. The freeway has since been repaved with an open-graded rubberized asphalt concrete pavement overlay. The current study uses new (2023) traffic noise measurements and PeMS data to investigate how worst-noise conditions have changed and the effect of the repaving on wayside noise levels. Changes in traffic patterns since 2018 required the authors to normalize the measurement data for comparison. Opportunities were identified to take advantage of the large measurement data sets to match before-and-after data, and those methods are also described in this paper.

Hybrid deep learning-based traffic congestion control in IoT environment using enhanced arithmetic optimization technique

The Internet of Things (IoT) is essential in several Internet application areas and remains a key technology for communication technologies. Shorter delays in transmission between Roadside Units (RSUs) and vehicles, road safety, and smooth traffic flow are the major difficulties of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). Machine Learning (ML) was an advanced technique to find hidden insights into ITSs. This article introduces an Improved Arithmetic Optimization with Deep Learning Driven Traffic Congestion Control (IAOADL-TCC) for ITS in Smart Cities. The presented IAOADL-TCC model enables traffic data collection and route traffic on existing routes for avoiding traffic congestion in smart cities. The IAOADL-TCC algorithm exploits a hybrid convolution neural network attention long short-term memory (HCNN-ALSTM) method for traffic congestion control. In addition, an IAOA-based hyperparameter tuning strategy is derived to optimally modify the parameters of the HCNN-ALSTM model. The presented IAOADL-TCC model effectively enhances the flow of traffic and reduces congestion. The experimental validation was performed using the road traffic dataset from the Kaggle repository. The proposed model obtained an average accuracy of 98.03 % with an error rate of 1.97 %. The experimental analysis stated the superior performance of the IAOADL-TCC approach over other DL methods.

Urban Traffic Mobility Optimization Model: A Novel Mathematical Approach for Predictive Urban Traffic Analysis

This research introduces the Urban Traffic Mobility Optimization Model (UTMOM), a data-driven methodology for analyzing two distinctive urban traffic datasets through the integration of data mining and mathematical modeling. Designed to decode the complexities of urban mobility patterns, UTMOM meticulously evaluates daily traffic dynamics with a focus on reducing discrepancies and underscoring variations in traffic intensity, particularly during peak times. Our findings unveil pivotal insights into the differences across datasets, providing a substantial contribution to the realms of traffic management and urban planning. UTMOM delves into the intricacies of traffic flow variations, emphasizing the critical importance of comprehending fluctuations in traffic volume across diverse times and locations. By incorporating detailed graphical representations and statistical validations, including ANOVA analysis, our study delivers a comprehensive evaluation of UTMOM’s precision in reflecting real-world traffic scenarios. These insights affirm the value of data-informed strategies in optimizing traffic flow and alleviating congestion. Positioned as a valuable asset for traffic engineers, data scientists, and urban planners, UTMOM advocates for advanced modeling techniques to improve urban mobility. Beyond enriching academic discourse on traffic analysis, UTMOM offers actionable intelligence for enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of urban transportation systems. Through this in-depth investigation, our aim is to catalyze the development of innovative solutions to traffic challenges, steering towards smoother and more sustainable urban environments.

A novel multi-modal incremental tensor decomposition for anomaly detection in large-scale networks

Network traffic anomaly detection is a crucial task for today's network monitoring and maintenance. However, with the rapid growth of network data volume, the data structure has become more and more complex, showing multi-modal characteristics, which makes traffic anomaly detection face a great challenge. The earlier proposed anomaly detection methods have the following deficiencies, i) Most of them are static or dynamic detection methods that only grow along the temporal modality. ii) Lower detection rate or higher computational cost. To address these deficiencies, this article proposes a traffic anomaly detection framework based on multi-modal incremental tensor decomposition, which has the following three highlights, i) Constructing traffic data as a tensor model to fully mine the correlation between data, and the proposed framework is applicable to the situation where traffic data grows dynamically along multiple modes. ii) Using the multi-modal incremental tensor decomposition method to process dynamically growing data without decomposing all the data, greatly reducing computational cost and improving data quality. iii) Using the XGBoost classification algorithm for anomaly detection to improve detection accuracy. Finally, the results of experiments on two real network traffic datasets NSL-KDD and CICDDOS 2019 show that the proposed framework can achieve a high detection rate of 99.21%, and has the characteristics of good scalability and fast detection speed.

Interpretable Graph Reservoir Computing With the Temporal Pattern Attention.

Graph reservoir computing (GraphRC) gains increasing attention by virtue of its high training efficiency. However, since GraphRC is developed without knowledge of its internal mechanism, it cannot be fully trusted to deploy in practice. Although there are some existing approaches that can be extended to interpret GraphRC, the specific role played by each neuron (i.e., reservoir node) of GraphRC is far less explored. To address this issue, the latent short-term memory property of each reservoir node of GraphRC is qualitatively characterized to unravel its role in predicting the graph signal, thereby enabling an interpretable GraphRC. Specifically, we first deduce the equivalence between the GraphRC and conventional reservoir computing (RC). Then, the underlying memory properties of the GraphRC and its reservoir nodes can be characterized in theory by the multisource reachability among the reservoir nodes in the transformed RC. Moreover, the distinct temporal patterns hidden in reservoir nodes are identified, and then, an attention mechanism based on the identified temporal patterns is deployed in the GraphRC to improve its performance. In addition, the effectiveness of the interpretability for GraphRC and improved GraphRC is verified on the Lorenz-96 spatiotemporal dynamical system. The experimental results of the Lorenz-96 spatiotemporal chaotic system and three real-world traffic datasets demonstrate that the improved GraphRC is superior to original GraphRC and can achieve prediction performance comparable to the state-of-the-art baseline models, but with much less training cost.

SDR Image Reconstruction for the Improvement of Nighttime Traffic Classification Using a New HDR Traffic Dataset

SDR Image Reconstruction for the Improvement of Nighttime Traffic Classification Using a New HDR Traffic Dataset

TSANet: Forecasting traffic congestion patterns from aerial videos using graphs and transformers

Forecasting traffic congestion patterns in lane-less traffic scenarios is a complex task because of the combination of high & irregular vehicle densities, fluctuating speeds, and the presence of environmental obstacles. Existing techniques like vehicle counting and density prediction, which successfully estimate congestion in lane-based traffic, are unsuitable for lane-less traffic scenarios due to the irregular and unpredictable nature of traffic density patterns. To overcome these challenges, we propose traffic states to measure congestion patterns in lane-less traffic scenarios. Each traffic state is characterized by the spatio-temporal distribution of neighbouring road users, including vehicles and motorcyclists. We employ traffic graphs to capture the spatial distribution of neighbouring road users. Also, we propose a novel method for the automated construction of traffic graphs by leveraging the detection and tracking of individual road users in aerial videos. Further, in order to incorporate the temporal distribution, we utilize a transformer model to capture the evolution of spatial traffic graphs over time. This enables us to forecast future spatio-temporal distributions and their associated traffic states. Our proposed model, named Traffic State Anticipation Network (TSANet), can effectively forecast future traffic states by analysing sequences of current traffic graphs, thereby enhancing our understanding of evolving traffic patterns in lane-less scenarios. Also, to address the lack of publicly available lane-less traffic datasets, we introduce EyeonTraffic (EoT), a large-scale lane-less traffic dataset containing three hours of aerial videos captured at three busy intersections in Ahmedabad city, India. Experimental results on the EoT dataset demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed TSANet in effectively anticipating traffic states across diverse spatial regions within an intersection. In addition, we also show that TSANet generalizes well for previously unseen intersections, making it suitable for analysing various traffic scenarios without the need for explicit training, thereby enhancing its practical applicability.

An Intelligent Deep Learning Framework for Traffic Flow Imputation and Short-term Prediction Based on Dynamic Features

The accurate prediction of traffic flow has emerged as a focal point in the cutting-edge sphere of intelligent transportation. Extant methodologies rely on deep learning for short-term forecasts but are hampered by two critical limitations: the omission of vital traffic flow data and an overemphasis on static rather than dynamic attributes. This paper presents a solution to these challenges through the creation of a dynamic attention generative adversarial network (DATGAN) that is specifically engineered to impute missing traffic data accurately. DATGAN introduces two groundbreaking features: first, an innovative attention module that is adept at identifying local correlations, and second, novel spatial-correction graph convolutional layers that are designed to capture the ever-changing spatial dynamic dependencies. Building on this foundation, the parallel spatial–temporal Transformer (PSTTransformer) is proposed, which integrates both spatial and temporal attention blocks to manage dynamic spatial-temporal dependencies for future short-term traffic predictions. This dual-block approach not only embeds periodic information via a fusion self-attention mechanism in the temporal attention blocks, but also synergizes graph convolutional networks with self-attention mechanisms in the spatial attention blocks through a gate mechanism. A comprehensive comparative analysis conducted on traffic datasets revealed that our methodology outperforms current leading models by reducing the mean squared error by 5% in data imputation tasks and shows robust performance in traffic prediction scenarios.

KaTaGCN: Knowledge-Augmented and Time-Aware Graph Convolutional Network for efficient traffic forecasting

Dynamic spatio-temporal dependencies and temporal patterns in traffic series are critical factors affecting traffic forecasting accuracy. Due to the intrinsic challenges of incorporating explicit, logical knowledge into the implicit black-box learning process of neural networks, only a few methods effectively use prior knowledge to improve the learning of traffic forecasting. To tackle this problem, we introduce a new approach called Knowledge-augmented and Time-aware Graph Convolutional Network, namely KaTaGCN. At its core, we have created a knowledge-augmented module that boosts the diffusion weights between closely related adjacent nodes in graph learning. This is achieved by implementing a new loss function. Then, to learn the periodic implicit relationship between these timestamps and traffic signals, the weights and biases are chosen adaptively to be trained based on the timestamps of each sample. Finally, a gated spatio-temporal mapping module regresses high-dimensional embedded features from spatial and temporal dimensions. KaTaGCN is structured without any attention mechanisms or recurrent neural networks. Extensive experimental results on six real-world public traffic datasets demonstrate that KaTaGCN achieves an average improvement of 4.29% in forecasting performance compared with suboptimal results.