{
  "id": "2407.12238",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2024-07-17T01:11:07.000Z",
  "updated": "2024-07-17T01:11:07.000Z",
  "title": "Urban Traffic Forecasting with Integrated Travel Time and Data Availability in a Conformal Graph Neural Network Framework",
  "authors": [
    "Mayur Patil",
    "Qadeer Ahmed",
    "Shawn Midlam-Mohler"
  ],
  "comment": "This manuscript has been accepted at the IEEE International Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC) 2024 which will be held September 24- 27, 2024 in Edmonton, Canada",
  "categories": [
    "cs.LG"
  ],
  "abstract": "Traffic flow prediction is a big challenge for transportation authorities as it helps in planning and developing better infrastructure. State-of-the-art models often struggle to consider the data in the best way possible, intrinsic uncertainties, and the actual physics of the traffic. In this study, we propose a novel framework to incorporate travel times between stations into a weighted adjacency matrix of a Graph Neural Network (GNN) architecture with information from traffic stations based on their data availability. To handle uncertainty, we utilized the Adaptive Conformal Prediction (ACP) method that adjusts prediction intervals based on real-time validation residuals. To validate our results, we model a microscopic traffic scenario and perform a Monte-Carlo simulation to get a travel time distribution for a Vehicle Under Test (VUT) while it is navigating the traffic scenario, and this distribution is compared against the actual data. Experiments show that the proposed model outperformed the next-best model by approximately 24% in MAE and 8% in RMSE and validation showed the simulated travel time closely matches the 95th percentile of the observed travel time value.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2024-07-17T01:11:07.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "conformal graph neural network framework",
      "integrated travel time",
      "urban traffic forecasting",
      "data availability",
      "travel time closely matches"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}