  Traffic prediction plays an important role in the realization of traffic
control and scheduling tasks in intelligent transportation systems. With the
diversification of data sources, reasonably using rich traffic data to model
the complex spatial-temporal dependence and nonlinear characteristics in
traffic flow are the key challenge for intelligent transportation system. In
addition, clearly evaluating the importance of spatial-temporal features
extracted from different data becomes a challenge. A Double Layer - Spatial
Temporal Feature Extraction and Evaluation (DL-STFEE) model is proposed. The
lower layer of DL-STFEE is spatial-temporal feature extraction layer. The
spatial and temporal features in traffic data are extracted by multi-graph
graph convolution and attention mechanism, and different combinations of
spatial and temporal features are generated. The upper layer of DL-STFEE is the
spatial-temporal feature evaluation layer. Through the attention score matrix
generated by the high-dimensional self-attention mechanism, the
spatial-temporal features combinations are fused and evaluated, so as to get
the impact of different combinations on prediction effect. Three sets of
experiments are performed on actual traffic datasets to show that DL-STFEE can
effectively capture the spatial-temporal features and evaluate the importance
of different spatial-temporal feature combinations.
