Guangyu Huo, Chang Su, Xiaoyu Zhang^*, Xiaohui Cui, Lizhong Zhang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.86, No.2, pp. 1-23, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.072147 - 09 December 2025

Abstract Long-term traffic flow prediction is a crucial component of intelligent transportation systems within intelligent networks, requiring predictive models that balance accuracy with low-latency and lightweight computation to optimize traffic management and enhance urban mobility and sustainability. However, traditional predictive models struggle to capture long-term temporal dependencies and are computationally intensive, limiting their practicality in real-time. Moreover, many approaches overlook the periodic characteristics inherent in traffic data, further impacting performance. To address these challenges, we introduce ST-MambaGCN, a State-Space-Based Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolution Network. Unlike conventional models, ST-MambaGCN replaces the temporal attention layer with Mamba, a state-space More >

Yali Cao¹, Weijian Hu^1,2, Lingfang Li^1,*, Minchao Li¹, Meng Xu², Ke Han²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.86, No.2, pp. 1-23, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.069373 - 09 December 2025

Abstract Traffic flow prediction constitutes a fundamental component of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), playing a pivotal role in mitigating congestion, enhancing route optimization, and improving the utilization efficiency of roadway infrastructure. However, existing methods struggle in complex traffic scenarios due to static spatio-temporal embedding, restricted multi-scale temporal modeling, and weak representation of local spatial interactions. This study proposes Bi-STAT+, an enhanced bidirectional spatio-temporal attention framework to address existing limitations through three principal contributions: (1) an adaptive spatio-temporal embedding module that dynamically adjusts embeddings to capture complex traffic variations; (2) frequency-domain analysis in the temporal dimension for… More >

Zitong Zhao¹, Zixuan Zhang², Zhenxing Niu^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.86, No.1, pp. 1-16, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.069752 - 10 November 2025

Abstract Reliable traffic flow prediction is crucial for mitigating urban congestion. This paper proposes Attention-based spatiotemporal Interactive Dynamic Graph Convolutional Network (AIDGCN), a novel architecture integrating Interactive Dynamic Graph Convolution Network (IDGCN) with Temporal Multi-Head Trend-Aware Attention. Its core innovation lies in IDGCN, which uniquely splits sequences into symmetric intervals for interactive feature sharing via dynamic graphs, and a novel attention mechanism incorporating convolutional operations to capture essential local traffic trends—addressing a critical gap in standard attention for continuous data. For 15- and 60-min forecasting on METR-LA, AIDGCN achieves MAEs of 0.75% and 0.39%, and RMSEs More >

Yunus Dogan¹, Goksu Tuysuzoglu¹, Elife Ozturk Kiyak², Bita Ghasemkhani³, Kokten Ulas Birant^1,4, Semih Utku¹, Derya Birant^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.144, No.2, pp. 1677-1715, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.069255 - 31 August 2025

Abstract Accurate traffic flow prediction (TFP) is vital for efficient and sustainable transportation management and the development of intelligent traffic systems. However, missing data in real-world traffic datasets poses a significant challenge to maintaining prediction precision. This study introduces REPTF-TMDI, a novel method that combines a Reduced Error Pruning Tree Forest (REPTree Forest) with a newly proposed Time-based Missing Data Imputation (TMDI) approach. The REPTree Forest, an ensemble learning approach, is tailored for time-related traffic data to enhance predictive accuracy and support the evolution of sustainable urban mobility solutions. Meanwhile, the TMDI approach exploits temporal patterns… More >

Haocheng Sun, Ping Li, Ying Li^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.3, pp. 4899-4914, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063029 - 19 May 2025

Abstract Traffic flow prediction is a key component of intelligent transportation systems, particularly in data-scarce regions where traditional models relying on complete datasets often fail to provide accurate forecasts. These regions are characterized by limited sensor coverage and sparse data collection, pose significant challenges for existing prediction methods. To address this, we propose a novel transfer learning framework called transfer learning with deep knowledge distillation (TL-DKD), which combines graph neural network (GNN) with deep knowledge distillation to enable effective knowledge transfer from data-rich to data-scarce domains. Our contributions are three-fold: (1) We introduce, for the first… More >

Xinlu Zong^*, Fan Yu, Zhen Chen, Xue Xia

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.2, pp. 3517-3537, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.057494 - 17 February 2025

Abstract Accurate traffic flow prediction has a profound impact on modern traffic management. Traffic flow has complex spatial-temporal correlations and periodicity, which poses difficulties for precise prediction. To address this problem, a Multi-head Self-attention and Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network (MSSTGCN) for multiscale traffic flow prediction is proposed. Firstly, to capture the hidden traffic periodicity of traffic flow, traffic flow is divided into three kinds of periods, including hourly, daily, and weekly data. Secondly, a graph attention residual layer is constructed to learn the global spatial features across regions. Local spatial-temporal dependence is captured by using a More >

Pongsakon Promsawat¹, Weerapan Sae-dan^2,*, Marisa Kaewsuwan³, Weerawat Sudsutad³, Aphirak Aphithana³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.142, No.1, pp. 579-607, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.057774 - 17 December 2024

Abstract The ability to accurately predict urban traffic flows is crucial for optimising city operations. Consequently, various methods for forecasting urban traffic have been developed, focusing on analysing historical data to understand complex mobility patterns. Deep learning techniques, such as graph neural networks (GNNs), are popular for their ability to capture spatio-temporal dependencies. However, these models often become overly complex due to the large number of hyper-parameters involved. In this study, we introduce Dynamic Multi-Graph Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Ordinary Differential Equation Networks (DMST-GNODE), a framework based on ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that autonomously discovers effective spatial-temporal… More >

Jing-Doo Wang¹, Chayadi Oktomy Noto Susanto^1,2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.2, pp. 1711-1728, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.048955 - 20 May 2024

Abstract A significant obstacle in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is the capacity to predict traffic flow. Recent advancements in deep neural networks have enabled the development of models to represent traffic flow accurately. However, accurately predicting traffic flow at the individual road level is extremely difficult due to the complex interplay of spatial and temporal factors. This paper proposes a technique for predicting short-term traffic flow data using an architecture that utilizes convolutional bidirectional long short-term memory (Conv-BiLSTM) with attention mechanisms. Prior studies neglected to include data pertaining to factors such as holidays, weather conditions, and More >

Jing-Doo Wang¹, Chayadi Oktomy Noto Susanto^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3097-3112, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040914 - 08 October 2023

Abstract Predicting traffic flow is a crucial component of an intelligent transportation system. Precisely monitoring and predicting traffic flow remains a challenging endeavor. However, existing methods for predicting traffic flow do not incorporate various external factors or consider the spatiotemporal correlation between spatially adjacent nodes, resulting in the loss of essential information and lower forecast performance. On the other hand, the availability of spatiotemporal data is limited. This research offers alternative spatiotemporal data with three specific features as input, vehicle type (5 types), holidays (3 types), and weather (10 conditions). In this study, the proposed model… More >

Fulu Wei¹, Xin Li¹, Yongqing Guo^1,*, Zhenyu Wang², Qingyin Li¹, Xueshi Ma³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 2001-2018, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.035799 - 21 June 2023

Abstract Traffic flow prediction plays an important role in intelligent transportation systems and is of great significance in the applications of traffic control and urban planning. Due to the complexity of road traffic flow data, traffic flow prediction has been one of the challenging tasks to fully exploit the spatiotemporal characteristics of roads to improve prediction accuracy. In this study, a combined flow direction level traffic flow prediction graph convolutional network (GCN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) model based on spatiotemporal characteristics is proposed. First, a GCN model is employed to capture the topological structure of… More >