XTraffic: A Dataset Where Traffic Meets Incidents with Explainability and More
<|reference_start|>XTraffic: A Dataset Where Traffic Meets Incidents with Explainability and More: Long-separated research has been conducted on two highly correlated tracks: traffic and incidents. Traffic track witnesses complicating deep learning models, e.g., to push the prediction a few percent more accurate, and the incident track only studies the incidents alone, e.g., to infer the incident risk. We, for the first time, spatiotemporally aligned the two tracks in a large-scale region (16,972 traffic nodes) over the whole year of 2023: our XTraffic dataset includes traffic, i.e., time-series indexes on traffic flow, lane occupancy, and average vehicle speed, and incidents, whose records are spatiotemporally-aligned with traffic data, with seven different incident classes. Additionally, each node includes detailed physical and policy-level meta-attributes of lanes. Our data can revolutionalize traditional traffic-related tasks towards higher interpretability and practice: instead of traditional prediction or classification tasks, we conduct: (1) post-incident traffic forecasting to quantify the impact of different incidents on traffic indexes; (2) incident classification using traffic indexes to determine the incidents types for precautions measures; (3) global causal analysis among the traffic indexes, meta-attributes, and incidents to give high-level guidance of the interrelations of various factors; (4) local causal analysis within road nodes to examine how different incidents affect the road segments' relations. The dataset is available at http://xaitraffic.github.io.<|reference_end|>
@article{gou2024xtraffic:,
    title={XTraffic: A Dataset Where Traffic Meets Incidents with Explainability
  and More},
    author={Xiaochuan Gou, Ziyue Li, Tian Lan, Junpeng Lin, Zhishuai Li, Bingyu
  Zhao, Chen Zhang, Di Wang, Xiangliang Zhang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11477},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.11477},
    primaryClass={cs.LG cs.AI}
}