@Article{cmc.2026.074308,
AUTHOR = {Dan Wang, Mengyi Cui, Zhenhua Yu, Yukang Liu},
TITLE = {Spatial-Temporal Graph Fusion with Dual-Scale Convolution for Traffic Flow Prediction},
JOURNAL = {Computers, Materials \& Continua},
VOLUME = {87},
YEAR = {2026},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {--},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/cmc/v87n3/66899},
ISSN = {1546-2226},
ABSTRACT = {Traffic flow prediction is of great importance in traffic planning, road resource management, and congestion mitigation. However, existing prediction have significant limitations in modeling multi-scale spatial-temporal features, particularly in capturing temporal periodicity and spatial dependency in dynamically evolving traffic networks. This paper proposes a novel framework of traffic flow prediction, referred to as Adaptive Graph Fusion Dual-scale Convolutional Network (AGFDCN), which integrates spatial-temporal dynamic graphs with dual-scale convolutional networks. Specifically, we introduce a Dual-Scale Temporal Network, which combines long- and short-term dilated causal convolutions with a temporal decay-aware attention mechanism to efficiently capture traffic patterns across multiple temporal scales. Furthermore, we design a Dynamic Adaptive Graph Module, which models complex spatial dependencies in traffic networks through an adaptive graph fusion mechanism and a dual-path attention-gated module. Finally, the temporal and spatial representations are integrated by employing a gated fusion mechanism, enhancing the overall prediction performance. Experimental results obtained based on three highway datasets (i.e., PEMS04, PEMS07 and PEMS08) verify that the proposed model outperforms several state-of-the-art baselines in various evaluation metrics. Compared to the spatial-temporal graph model AGCRN with best performance in the baseline models, the proposed model exhibits significant improvements across all datasets: it achieves reduces of MAE by 42.07% and RMSE by 35.43% on PEMS04; MAE by 28.35% and RMSE by 29.28% on PEMS07; and MAE by 30.52% and RMSE by 30.73% on PEMS08, respectively, validating its effectiveness in modeling complex spatial-temporal traffic data and its robustness in handling sudden traffic changes.},
DOI = {10.32604/cmc.2026.074308}
}