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To fully capture the characteristics of spatio-temporal data diversity, this paper proposes a cross-Attention Fusion Based Spatial-Temporal Multi-Graph Convolutional Network (CAFMGCN) model for traffic flow prediction. First, introduce GCN to model the historical traffic data\u2019s three-time attributes (current, daily, and weekly) to extract time features. Second, consider the relationship between distance and traffic flow, constructing adjacency, connectivity, and regional similarity graphs to capture dynamic spatial topology information. To make full use of global information, a cross-attention mechanism is introduced to fuse temporal and spatial features separately to reduce prediction errors. Finally, the CAFMGCN model is evaluated, and the experimental results show that the prediction of this model is more accurate and effective than the baseline of other models.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21248468","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,20]],"date-time":"2021-12-20T02:40:32Z","timestamp":1639968032000},"page":"8468","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Cross-Attention Fusion Based Spatial-Temporal Multi-Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Prediction"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1595-3416","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kun","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830000, China"}]},{"given":"Xizhong","family":"Qin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830000, China"}]},{"given":"Zhenhong","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830000, China"}]},{"given":"Yan","family":"Du","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830000, China"}]},{"given":"Mengmeng","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830000, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1624","DOI":"10.1109\/TITS.2011.2158001","article-title":"Data-driven intelligent transportation systems: A survey","volume":"12","author":"Zhang","year":"2011","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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