A Graph Convolutional Method for Traffic Flow Prediction in Highway Network

Abstract

As a transportation way in people’s daily life, highway has become indispensable and extremely important. Traffic flow prediction is one of the important issues for highway management. Affected by many factors, including temporal, spatial, and other external ones, traffic flow is difficult to accurately predict. In this paper, we propose a graph convolutional method. And the name of our model proposed is the hybrid graph convolutional network (HGCN), which comprehensively considers time, space, weather conditions and date type to achieve better predicted results of traffic flow at highway stations. Compared with baselines implemented by various machine learning models, all metrics of our model are reduced dramatically.