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In recent years, data-driven vehicle trajectory prediction models have become a significant research focus, and various spatial\u2013temporal neural network models, based on spatial\u2013temporal data, have been proposed. However, some existing spatial\u2013temporal models segregate time and space, neglecting the inherent coupling of time and space. To address this issue, an end-to-end spatial\u2013temporal feature fusion model, based on the Vision Transformer (Vit), is proposed in this paper, which can couple stereoscopic features of diverse spatial regions and time periods. Specifically, we propose an end-to-end spatiotemporal feature coupling model based on visual Transformer, Vit-Traj, which extracts spatiotemporal features through 2D convolution and uses Vit and SENet to complete feature fusion. Experimental results on the NGSIM and HighD datasets indicate that, compared to State-of-the-Art models, the proposed model exhibits better performance. The root mean squared error (RMSE) is 2.72 m on the NGSIM dataset and 0.86 m on the HighD dataset when the prediction horizon is 5 s. Furthermore, ablation experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of each module, affirming the efficacy of ViT in modeling spatial\u2013temporal data.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems13030147","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,21]],"date-time":"2025-02-21T09:26:32Z","timestamp":1740129992000},"page":"147","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Vit-Traj: A Spatial\u2013Temporal Coupling Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Model Based on Vision Transformer"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Rongjun","family":"Cheng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xudong","family":"An","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuanzi","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6469","DOI":"10.1109\/JIOT.2020.3043716","article-title":"Computing systems for autonomous driving: State of the art and challenges","volume":"8","author":"Liu","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Internet Things J."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"58443","DOI":"10.1109\/ACCESS.2020.2983149","article-title":"A survey of autonomous driving: Common practices and emerging technologies","volume":"8","author":"Yurtsever","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Access"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"652","DOI":"10.1109\/TIV.2022.3167103","article-title":"A survey on trajectory-prediction methods for autonomous driving","volume":"7","author":"Huang","year":"2022","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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