On the Design of Graph Embeddings for the Sensorless Estimation of Road Traffic Profiles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04968v1
• Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:16:18 GMT
• Title: On the Design of Graph Embeddings for the Sensorless Estimation of Road Traffic Profiles
• Authors: Eric L. Manibardo, Ibai La\~na, Esther Villar, and Javier Del Ser
• Abstract summary: Traffic forecasting models rely on data that needs to be sensed, processed, and stored. The lack of sensed locations can be complemented with synthetic data simulations that further lower the economical investment needed for traffic monitoring. We present a method to discover locations among those with available traffic data by inspecting topological features of road segments.
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• Abstract: Traffic forecasting models rely on data that needs to be sensed, processed, and stored. This requires the deployment and maintenance of traffic sensing infrastructure, often leading to unaffordable monetary costs. The lack of sensed locations can be complemented with synthetic data simulations that further lower the economical investment needed for traffic monitoring. One of the most common data generative approaches consists of producing real-like traffic patterns, according to data distributions from analogous roads. The process of detecting roads with similar traffic is the key point of these systems. However, without collecting data at the target location no flow metrics can be employed for this similarity-based search. We present a method to discover locations among those with available traffic data by inspecting topological features of road segments. Relevant topological features are extracted as numerical representations (embeddings) to compare different locations and eventually find the most similar roads based on the similarity between their embeddings. The performance of this novel selection system is examined and compared to simpler traffic estimation approaches. After finding a similar source of data, a generative method is used to synthesize traffic profiles. Depending on the resemblance of the traffic behavior at the sensed road, the generation method can be fed with data from one road only. Several generation approaches are analyzed in terms of the precision of the synthesized samples. Above all, this work intends to stimulate further research efforts towards enhancing the quality of synthetic traffic samples and thereby, reducing the need for sensing infrastructure.

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