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T-AGCN incorporates an Adaptive Graph Learner module to model dynamic relationships among traffic nodes and a Transformer-Based Spatio-Temporal graph convolutional module to capture long-range temporal dependencies in historical traffic data effectively. These innovations enable T-AGCN to jointly learn dynamic spatial interactions and complex temporal patterns, offering a comprehensive representation of traffic network dynamics. We evaluate T-AGCN on three real-world datasets, PeMSD7(M), PeMS08, and METR-LA. The experimental results demonstrate that T-AGCN, inspired by the baseline model Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network (STGCN), significantly enhances its design. Moreover, T-AGCN consistently outperforms state-of-the-art models, including the Transformer-Based Interactive Temporal and Adaptive Network (TITAN) and the Spatial-Temporal Decoupled Masked Autoencoder (STD-MAE). 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