Identifying the most influential roads based on traffic correlation networks

Shengmin Guo, Dong Zhou, Jingfang Fan, Qingfeng Tong, Tongyu Zhu, Weifeng Lv, Daqing Li, Shlomo Havlin

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Abstract

Prediction of traffic congestion is one of the core issues in the realization of smart traffic. Accurate prediction depends on understanding of interactions and correlations between different city locations. While many methods merely consider the spatio-temporal correlation between two locations, here we propose a new approach of capturing the correlation network in a city based on realtime traffic data. We use the weighted degree and the impact distance as the two major measures to identify the most influential locations. A road segment with larger weighted degree or larger impact distance suggests that its traffic flow can strongly influence neighboring road sections driven by the congestion propagation. Using these indices, we find that the statistical properties of the identified correlation network is stable in different time periods during a day, including morning rush hours, evening rush hours, and the afternoon normal time respectively. Our work provides a new framework for assessing interactions between different local traffic flows. The captured correlation network between different locations might facilitate future studies on predicting and controlling the traffic flows.

Original languageEnglish
Article number28
JournalEPJ Data Science
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2019

Bibliographical note

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Funding

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71822101, 71771009) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. JF and SH were supported by the Israel-Italian collaborative project NECST, Israel Science Foundation, ONR, Japan Science Foundation, BSF-NSF, and DTRA (Grant No. HDTRA-1-10-1-0014).

FundersFunder number
BSF-NSF
Japan Science Foundation
NECST
Office of Naval Research
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
National Natural Science Foundation of China71771009, 71822101
Israel Science Foundation
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

    Keywords

    • Congestion propagation
    • Node importance
    • Traffic correlation network

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