Enhanced Information Graph Recursive Network for Traffic Forecasting

Accurate traffic forecasting is crucial for the advancement of smart cities. Although there have been many studies on traffic forecasting, the accurate forecasting of traffic volume is still a challenge. To effectively capture the spatio-temporal correlations of traffic data, a deep learning-based traffic volume forecasting model called the Enhanced Information Graph Recursive Network (EIGRN) is presented in this paper. The model consists of three main parts: a Graph Embedding Adaptive Graph Convolution Network (GE-AGCN), a Modified Gated Recursive Unit (MGRU), and a local information enhancement module. The local information enhancement module is composed of a convolutional neural network (CNN), a transposed convolutional neural network, and an attention mechanism. In the EIGRN, the GE-AGCN is used to capture the spatial correlation of the traffic network by adaptively learning the hidden information of the complex topology, the MGRU is employed to capture the temporal correlation by learning the time change of the traffic volume, and the local information enhancement module is employed to capture the global and local correlations of the traffic volume. The EIGRN was evaluated using the real datasets PEMS-BAY and PeMSD7(M) to assess its predictive performance The results indicate that the forecasting performance of the EIGRN is better than the comparison models.