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Multi-Head Spatiotemporal Attention Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Prediction

9 Apr 2023Sensors 2023 4archive 2025-07-28

Oluwasanmi A, Aftab MU, Qin Z, Sarfraz MS, Yu Y, Rauf HT

Intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) have become an indispensable component of modern global technological development, as they play a massive role in the accurate statistical estimation of vehicles or individuals commuting to a particular transportation facility at a given time. This provides the perfect backdrop for designing and engineering an adequate infrastructural capacity for transportation analyses. However, traffic prediction remains a daunting task due to the non-Euclidean and complex distribution of road networks and the topological constraints of urbanized road networks. To solve this challenge, this paper presents a traffic forecasting model which combines a graph convolutional network, a gated recurrent unit, and a multi-head attention mechanism to simultaneously capture and incorporate the spatio-temporal dependence and dynamic variation in the topological sequence of traffic data effectively. By achieving 91.8% accuracy on the Los Angeles highway traffic (Los-loop) test data for 15-min traffic prediction and an R2 score of 85% on the Shenzhen City (SZ-taxi) test dataset for 15- and 30-min predictions, the proposed model demonstrated that it can learn the global spatial variation and the dynamic temporal sequence of traffic data over time. This has resulted in state-of-the-art traffic forecasting for the SZ-taxi and Los-loop datasets.

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Traffic Prediction

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Traffic Prediction SZ-Taxi MHAST-GCN MAE @ 15min 2.6624 #3 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction SZ-Taxi MHAST-GCN MAE @ 30min 2.7101 #3 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction SZ-Taxi MHAST-GCN MAE @ 45min 2.7221 #3 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction SZ-Taxi MHAST-GCN MAE @ 60min 2.7361 #3 of 5 Archive leaderboard report

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Linear LayerSoftmax

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