A Spatiotemporal Adaptive Local Search Method for Tracking Congestion Propagation in Dynamic Networks

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Autori principali: Huan, Weihua, Tan, Kaizhen, Liu, Xintao, Jia, Shoujun, Lu, Shijun, Zhang, Jing, Huang, Wei
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author Huan, Weihua
Tan, Kaizhen
Liu, Xintao
Jia, Shoujun
Lu, Shijun
Zhang, Jing
Huang, Wei
author_facet Huan, Weihua
Tan, Kaizhen
Liu, Xintao
Jia, Shoujun
Lu, Shijun
Zhang, Jing
Huang, Wei
contents Traffic congestion propagation poses significant challenges to urban sustainability, disrupting spatial accessibility. The cascading effect of traffic congestion propagation can cause large-scale disruptions to networks. Existing studies have laid a solid foundation for characterizing the cascading effects. However, they typically rely on predefined graph structures and lack adaptability to diverse data granularities. To address these limitations, we propose a spatiotemporal adaptive local search (STALS) method, which feeds the dynamically adaptive adjacency matrices into the local search algorithm to learn propagation rules. Specifically, the STALS is composed of two data-driven modules. One is a dynamic adjacency matrix learning module, which learns the spatiotemporal relationship from congestion graphs by fusing four node features. The other one is the local search module, which introduces local dominance to identify multi-scale congestion bottlenecks and search their propagation pathways. We test our method on the four benchmark networks with an average of 15,000 nodes. The STALS remains a Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) score at 0.97 and an average execution time of 27.66s, outperforming six state-of-the-art methods in robustness and efficiency. We also apply the STALS to three large-scale traffic networks in New York City, the United States, Shanghai, China, and Urumqi, China. The ablation study reveals an average modularity of 0.78 across three cities, demonstrating the spatiotemporal-scale invariance of frequencytransformed features and the spatial heterogeneity of geometric topological features. By integrating dynamic graph learning with Geo-driven spatial analytics, STALS provides a scalable tool for congestion mitigation.
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spellingShingle A Spatiotemporal Adaptive Local Search Method for Tracking Congestion Propagation in Dynamic Networks
Huan, Weihua
Tan, Kaizhen
Liu, Xintao
Jia, Shoujun
Lu, Shijun
Zhang, Jing
Huang, Wei
Social and Information Networks
Physics and Society
Traffic congestion propagation poses significant challenges to urban sustainability, disrupting spatial accessibility. The cascading effect of traffic congestion propagation can cause large-scale disruptions to networks. Existing studies have laid a solid foundation for characterizing the cascading effects. However, they typically rely on predefined graph structures and lack adaptability to diverse data granularities. To address these limitations, we propose a spatiotemporal adaptive local search (STALS) method, which feeds the dynamically adaptive adjacency matrices into the local search algorithm to learn propagation rules. Specifically, the STALS is composed of two data-driven modules. One is a dynamic adjacency matrix learning module, which learns the spatiotemporal relationship from congestion graphs by fusing four node features. The other one is the local search module, which introduces local dominance to identify multi-scale congestion bottlenecks and search their propagation pathways. We test our method on the four benchmark networks with an average of 15,000 nodes. The STALS remains a Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) score at 0.97 and an average execution time of 27.66s, outperforming six state-of-the-art methods in robustness and efficiency. We also apply the STALS to three large-scale traffic networks in New York City, the United States, Shanghai, China, and Urumqi, China. The ablation study reveals an average modularity of 0.78 across three cities, demonstrating the spatiotemporal-scale invariance of frequencytransformed features and the spatial heterogeneity of geometric topological features. By integrating dynamic graph learning with Geo-driven spatial analytics, STALS provides a scalable tool for congestion mitigation.
title A Spatiotemporal Adaptive Local Search Method for Tracking Congestion Propagation in Dynamic Networks
topic Social and Information Networks
Physics and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06099