Urban Traffic Speed Dataset of Guangzhou, China

<p>This is an urban traffic speed dataset which consists of 214 anonymous road segments (mainly consist of urban expressways and arterials) within two months (i.e., 61 days from August 1, 2016 to September 30, 2016) at 10-minute interval, and the speed observations were collected from Guangzhou, China. In practice, it can be used to evaluate several missing data recovery, short-term traffic prediction and traffic pattern discovery methods.</p> <p>According to the spatial and temporal attributes, we can easily derive a third-order tensor as&nbsp;<span class="math-tex">\(\mathcal{X}\in\mathbb{R}^{214\times 61\times 144}\)</span>&nbsp;and its dimensions include&nbsp;road segment, day and time window (see the file <strong>tensor.mat</strong>). The total number of speed observations (or non-zero entries of the tensor <span class="math-tex">\(\mathcal{X}\)</span>) is <span class="math-tex">\(1,855,589\)</span>. If the dataset is complete, then we have&nbsp;<span class="math-tex">\(214\times 61\times 144=1,879,776\)</span> observations, therefore, the original missing rate of this dataset is <span class="math-tex">\(1.29\%\)</span>.</p> <p>Note that&nbsp;the file <strong>traffic_speed_data.csv</strong> is the original traffic speed data with four columns including road segment attribute, day attribute, time window attribute and traffic speed value. The file <strong>day_information_table.csv</strong> is a table referring to the specific date, and the file <strong>time_information_table.csv</strong> is a table expressing time window with start time and end time information.</p>