Journal of Jilin University(Engineering and Technology Edition) ›› 2026, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (1): 183-198.doi: 10.13229/j.cnki.jdxbgxb.20240640

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Traffic flow prediction based on spatio-temporal dynamic constraint graph feedback

Yue HOU(),Xin ZHANG,Yue WU   

  1. School of Electronics and Information Engineering,Lanzhou Jiaotong University,Lanzhou 730070,China
  • Received:2024-06-11 Online:2026-01-01 Published:2026-02-03

Abstract:

Aiming at the problem of insufficient consideration of the time-varying characteristics of hidden spatial associations of road network nodes in the existing traffic flow prediction studies, this paper proposes a traffic flow prediction model based on the feedback of spatio-temporal dynamic constraint graph. First, the temporal features are extracted by GRU, generates a dynamic constraint graph characterising the neighbourhood relationship of the road network at the current moment by using a spatio-temporal graph generator and a spatio-temporal fusion constraint matrix within the STC-GCL component, and then realises spatial feature extraction by using a multilayer graph structure convolution operation. Second, the multi-scale gated convolution unit is used to dynamically adjust the information flow of important features to complete the fine screening of key features. Finally, the consistent extraction of spatio-temporal features is achieved by embedding STC-GCL into GRU. The experiments are tested on the public datasets of high-speed road network PeMSD4, PeMSD8, and Chengdu-DDT, and the results show that compared with the current mainstream spatio-temporal prediction methods for traffic flow FGI, the MAE of the proposed model in this paper reduced by 2.69%, 1.88%, and 0.92% in the three datasets, respectively.

Key words: traffic flow prediction, spatio-temporal nature, dynamic nature, graph convolutional neural network

CLC Number: 

  • U491.1

Fig.1

Autocorrelation analysis of traffic flow at 7 nodes in PeMSD8 in different time periods"

Fig.2

Graph of dynamics of role relationships of 7 nodes in PeMSD8"

Fig.3

Overall framework of STC-GCL-MGRU model"

Fig.4

Spatio-pemporal graph generator architecture"

Fig.5

Spatio-temporal fusion constraint matrix construction"

Fig.6

Sequence trend information comparison chart"

Fig.7

Multi-scale gated convolutional units"

Fig.8

STC-GCL-GRU structure"

Table 1

Data set details"

数据集地区节点日期长度
PeMSD4旧金山湾区3072018年1~2月16 992
PeMSD8圣贝纳迪诺区1702016年7~8月17 856
成都-滴滴成都5242018年1~4月17 280

Table 2

Baseline comparison"

模型PeMSD4PeMSD8成都-滴滴
MAERMSER2MAERMSER2MAERMSER2
CNN-LSTM20.6935.050.920 116.4126.630.926 42.323.510.693 3
ASTGCN20.4432.810.919 316.4925.360.928 52.343.490.692 0
DCRNN22.2834.290.916 616.7425.630.928 82.784.090.581 8
SCINet20.4132.480.960 016.6926.150.938 02.253.450.690 5
STG-NCDE20.2931.990.960 015.8224.890.960 82.323.440.693 2
DeepSTUQ19.1531.360.933 915.0423.970.938 82.293.440.693 3
FGI19.3131.680.928 214.9323.640.939 62.183.310.714 2
STC-GCL-MGRU18.7930.280.962 814.6523.690.963 42.163.270.731 3

Fig.9

12-step prediction results of baseline model and STC-GCL-MGRU in PeMSD4"

Fig.10

12-step prediction results of baseline model and STC-GCL-MGRU in PeMSD8"

Fig.11

6-step prediction results of baseline model and STC-GCL-MGRU in Chengdu-Didi"

Fig.12

PeMSD8 weather disturbance correlation heat map"

Table 3

Partial baseline model comparison experiments under external weather disturbances"

模型5 min30 min60 min
MAERMSER2MAERMSER2MAERMSER2
SCINet14.4922.170.940 118.1228.320.926 519.8131.140.910 4
STG-NCDE14.2221.790.948 017.3827.440.928 719.2730.360.912 3
DeepSTUQ13.5420.990.948 616.1225.460.930 018.4128.910.917 0
STC-GCL-MGRU13.2620.620.960 315.7515.140.950 318.1128.710.941 3

Fig.13

Performance comparison of PeMSD8 with and without meteorological disturbances"

Table 4

Average projection results by component"

模型PeMSD8
MAERMSER2
GRU-GCL23.0933.290.950 0
STC-GCL-ADD-IG17.6428.390.961 4
STC-GCL-ADD-ST17.1927.790.963 1
STC-GCL-MGRU14.6523.690.963 4

Fig.14

Changes in spatial topology maps"

Fig.15

Feature distribution after spatial feature extraction"

Fig.6

Comparison of different peak periods"

Table 5

Ablation model average predictions results"

模型PeMSD8
MAERMSER2
STC-GCL-MGRU-IG20.2331.930.951 0
STC-GCL-MGRU-ST18.4129.360.958 7
STC-GCL-MGRU-GCU17.1927.790.963 1
STC-GCL-MGRU14.6523.690.963 4

Fig.17

Predictive performance of ablation models at different time steps"

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