Research on Bidirectional Traffic Flow Combination Prediction Considering Longitudinal Spatiotemporal Characteristics
A model for combined prediction of bidirectional traffic flow is proposed to address the issues of insufficient consideration of the longitudinal spatiotemporal characteristics of real road networks and inadequate reorganization of directional auxiliary information features in existing research methods.This model adpots a pre-training mechanism based on convolutional deep belief networks to finely extract spatial characteristics between upstream and down-stream longitudinal segments,and employs bidirectional long short-term memory networks to capture the temporal characteristics of bidirectional traffic flow.By combining the two,a deep-level exploration of the longitudinal spatio-temporal characteristics is achieved.Furthermore,an improved bidirectional attention mechanism is integrated into the model to perform directional self-organized feature extraction,enabling adaptive weight allocation for different directional cat-egories.The experimental results indicate that compared to the model that did not consider the influence of upstream and downstream sections,the average absolute percentage error and root mean square error of the proposed model decreased by 3.01%and 5.57%,respectively.Compared to the model that considered the influence of upstream and downstream sections but did not improve the attention mechanism,the respective reductions were 0.29%and 4.87%.