Abstract:Modeling traffic dynamics is a critical challenge for urban computing, with applications from real-time traffic management to infrastructure planning. However, progress in this area is fundamentally constrained by a lack of large-scale public datasets that capture the subtle properties of real city road networks. Existing benchmarks are often limited by their small scale, reliance on sparse highway traffic sensors, absence of true road connectivity information, and lack of information about road properties. To address this issue, we introduce datasets representing fine-grained road networks of two major cities, which are unique in their scale (up to 100,000 road segments), use of real road connectivity, presence of time series measurements for both traffic speed and volume at a 5-minute resolution, and inclusion of rich static road attributes. These datasets enable in-depth analysis of spatiotemporal traffic patterns and can serve as benchmarks for various ML applications. As a practical demonstration of the utility of our datasets and the challenges they present, we use them for the task of traffic forecasting. The size of the real-world road networks in our datasets reveals significant scalability issues in current traffic forecasting models. To address them, we propose a simple and efficient baseline that not only scales to large road graphs but also achieves forecasting performance competitive with other established spatiotemporal models. We hope that the proposed datasets will serve as a foundational resource for a broad range of research in traffic modeling, urban computing, and smart city development.
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2510.02278 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2510.02278v2 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.02278 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
From: Gleb Bazhenov [view email]
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