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This study collected 9 months of real-time Wuhan traffic-monitoring data from Amap. We propose Traffic-ConvLSTM, a multi-scale spatial-temporal technique based on long short-term memory (LSTM) networks and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to effectively achieve long-term anomaly detection at the city level. First, we converted traffic track points into an image representation, which enables spatial correlation between traffic flow and roads and correlations between traffic flow and roads, as well as the surrounding environment, to be captured. Second, the model utilizes convolution kernels of different sizes to extract spatial features at road-, regional-, and city-level scales while incorporating the temporal features of different time steps to capture hourly, daily, and weekly dynamics. Additionally, varying weights are assigned to the convolution kernels and temporal features of varying spatio-temporal scales to capture the heterogeneous strengths of spatio-temporal correlations within patterns of traffic anomalies. The proposed Traffic-ConvLSTM model exhibits improved performance over existing techniques in the task of identifying long-term and large-scale traffic anomaly occurrences. Furthermore, the analysis reveals significant traffic anomalies during holidays and urban sporting events. 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