A Graph Neural Network Surrogate Model for Incident-Based Travel Time Prediction Under Limited Sensor Data

📅 2026-09-13
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该研究使用时空图卷积网络(STGCN)预测道路事件下的旅行时间,仅基于有限的传感器数据,解决了微观模拟需要为每个场景单独运行的问题。
📝 Abstract
Localized roadway incidents can produce congestion well beyond their point of origin, but evaluating these effects with microscopic simulation requires a separate run for each scenario. This paper presents a Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network (STGCN) for forecasting route-level travel times on a simulated Nashville, Tennessee road network with 1,037 junctions and 1,601 road segments. The model uses directional traffic counts from only 129 signalized intersections, reflecting data commonly available to transportation agencies. By representing these intersections as a graph, the STGCN jointly captures spatial dependence and temporal traffic evolution to learn how localized disruptions propagate through the network. We compare a baseline trained on 80 incident-free simulations with an incident-inclusive model trained with an additional 360 lane-blockage scenarios across 12 locations and three durations. The baseline achieved a relative mean absolute error (MAE) of 9.94%. The incident-inclusive model achieved 9.67% overall, 6.45% during active incidents, and 13.62% at 30 incident locations withheld entirely from training. On disrupted routes, its predictions were within 2.0 minutes of observed travel time on average. For comparison, simulated travel times vary by 7.4%, or 1.3 minutes, across random seeds under identical conditions. Inference requires approximately 53 ms on a single CPU core, demonstrating the potential of the model as an efficient surrogate for transportation resilience screening, incident management, and proactive rerouting.
Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

Travel Time Prediction
Limited Sensor Data
Localized Disruptions
Graph Neural Network
Spatio-Temporal
Innovation

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Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network
Incident-based Travel Time Prediction
Limited Sensor Data
Transportation Resilience
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Abhilasha Saroj
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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Natalie Myers
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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Haoran Niu
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA