Aircraft Landing Time Prediction with Deep Learning on Trajectory Images

Aircraft landing time (ALT) prediction is crucial for air traffic management, especially for arrival aircraft sequencing on the runway. In this study, a trajectory image-based deep learning method is proposed to predict ALTs for the aircraft entering the research airspace that covers the Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA). Specifically, the trajectories of all airborne arrival aircraft within the temporal capture window are used to generate an image with the target aircraft trajectory labeled as red and all background aircraft trajectory labeled as blue. The trajectory images contain various information, including the aircraft position, speed, heading, relative distances, and arrival traffic flows. It enables us to use state-of-the-art deep convolution neural networks for ALT modeling. We also use real-time runway usage obtained from the trajectory data and the external information such as aircraft types and weather conditions as additional inputs. Moreover, a convolution neural network (CNN) based module is designed for automatic holding-related featurizing, which takes the trajectory images, the leading aircraft holding status, and their time and speed gap at the research airspace boundary as its inputs. Its output is further fed into the final end-to-end ALT prediction. The proposed ALT prediction approach is applied to Singapore Changi Airport (ICAO Code: WSSS) using one-month Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data from November 1 to November 30, 2022. Experimental results show that by integrating the holding featurization, we can reduce the mean absolute error (MAE) from 82.23 seconds to 43.96 seconds, and achieve an average accuracy of 96.1\%, with 79.4\% of the predictions errors being less than 60 seconds.

STGIN: A Spatial Temporal Graph-Informer Network for Long Sequence Traffic Speed Forecasting

Accurate long series forecasting of traffic information is critical for the development of intelligent traffic systems. We may benefit from the rapid growth of neural network analysis technology to better understand the underlying functioning patterns of traffic networks as a result of this progress. Due to the fact that traffic data and facility utilization circumstances are sequentially dependent on past and present situations, several related neural network techniques based on temporal dependency extraction models have been developed to solve the problem. The complicated topological road structure, on the other hand, amplifies the effect of spatial interdependence, which cannot be captured by pure temporal extraction approaches. Additionally, the typical Deep Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) topology has a constraint on global information extraction, which is required for comprehensive long-term prediction. This study proposes a new spatial-temporal neural network architecture, called Spatial-Temporal Graph-Informer (STGIN), to handle the long-term traffic parameters forecasting issue by merging the Informer and Graph Attention Network (GAT) layers for spatial and temporal relationships extraction. The attention mechanism potentially guarantees long-term prediction performance without significant information loss from distant inputs. On two real-world traffic datasets with varying horizons, experimental findings validate the long sequence prediction abilities, and further interpretation is provided.

Dense-TNT: Efficient Vehicle Type Classification Neural Network Using Satellite Imagery

Accurate vehicle type classification serves a significant role in the intelligent transportation system. It is critical for ruler to understand the road conditions and usually contributive for the traffic light control system to response correspondingly to alleviate traffic congestion. New technologies and comprehensive data sources, such as aerial photos and remote sensing data, provide richer and high-dimensional information. Also, due to the rapid development of deep neural network technology, image based vehicle classification methods can better extract underlying objective features when processing data. Recently, several deep learning models have been proposed to solve the problem. However, traditional pure convolutional based approaches have constraints on global information extraction, and the complex environment, such as bad weather, seriously limits the recognition capability. To improve the vehicle type classification capability under complex environment, this study proposes a novel Densely Connected Convolutional Transformer in Transformer Neural Network (Dense-TNT) framework for the vehicle type classification by stacking Densely Connected Convolutional Network (DenseNet) and Transformer in Transformer (TNT) layers. Three-region vehicle data and four different weather conditions are deployed for recognition capability evaluation. Experimental findings validate the recognition ability of our proposed vehicle classification model with little decay, even under the heavy foggy weather condition.

AST-GIN: Attribute-Augmented Spatial-Temporal Graph Informer Network for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Availability Forecasting

Electric Vehicle (EV) charging demand and charging station availability forecasting is one of the challenges in the intelligent transportation system. With the accurate EV station situation prediction, suitable charging behaviors could be scheduled in advance to relieve range anxiety. Many existing deep learning methods are proposed to address this issue, however, due to the complex road network structure and comprehensive external factors, such as point of interests (POIs) and weather effects, many commonly used algorithms could just extract the historical usage information without considering comprehensive influence of external factors. To enhance the prediction accuracy and interpretability, the Attribute-Augmented Spatial-Temporal Graph Informer (AST-GIN) structure is proposed in this study by combining the Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) layer and the Informer layer to extract both external and internal spatial-temporal dependence of relevant transportation data. And the external factors are modeled as dynamic attributes by the attribute-augmented encoder for training. AST-GIN model is tested on the data collected in Dundee City and experimental results show the effectiveness of our model considering external factors influence over various horizon settings compared with other baselines.

Bicycle Detection Based On Multi-feature and Multi-frame Fusion in low-resolution traffic videos

As a major type of transportation equipments, bicycles, including electrical bicycles, are distributed almost everywhere in China. The accidents caused by bicycles have become a serious threat to the public safety. So bicycle detection is one major task of traffic video surveillance systems in China. In this paper, a method based on multi-feature and multi-frame fusion is presented for bicycle detection in low-resolution traffic videos. It first extracts some geometric features of objects from each frame image, then concatenate multiple features into a feature vector and use linear support vector machine (SVM) to learn a classifier, or put these features into a cascade classifier, to yield a preliminary detection result regarding whether an object is a bicycle. It further fuses these preliminary detection results from multiple frames to provide a more reliable detection decision, together with a confidence level of that decision. Experimental results show that this method based on multi-feature and multi-frame fusion can identify bicycles with high accuracy and low computational complexity. It is, therefore, applicable for real-time traffic video surveillance systems.