STIF-DGCN: a spatiotemporal interactive fusion dual-graph convolutional network for multi-vehicle trajectory prediction
摘要
Large-scale cyber-physical transportation systems require efficient multi-vehicle trajectory prediction for real-time traffic management, traffic digital twins, and simulation-based safety assessment. This paper proposes a spatiotemporal interactive fusion dual-graph convolutional network, termed STIF-DGCN, for scene-level highway vehicle trajectory prediction. The model predicts the future trajectories of all observed vehicles in a scene within a single forward pass, supporting parallel inference and large-scale traffic analytics. STIF-DGCN constructs temporal and spatial graphs to capture motion evolution and inter-vehicle interactions. The spatial graph is constructed as a dense candidate graph with a local interaction mask, which reduces redundant interactions from weakly related distant vehicles. Normalized distance- and displacement-derived kernel priors are further fused with attention-derived interaction representations to improve physically meaningful graph construction. Experiments on NGSIM and highD show that STIF-DGCN achieves competitive prediction accuracy over multiple horizons against representative baselines. STIF-DGCN obtains an average RMSE of 1.35 m and a 5 s RMSE of 2.48 m on NGSIM, and an average RMSE of 0.24 m and a 5 s RMSE of 0.40 m on highD. Additional analyses, including fusion operator comparison, perception-range sensitivity, density-stratified evaluation, component ablation, and maneuver-specific testing, further support the effectiveness of the proposed interaction modeling strategy. These results suggest that STIF-DGCN can serve as an efficient and interpretable prediction module for large-scale highway traffic forecasting and real-time decision support. Future extensions will focus on improving its adaptability to more complex and multimodal traffic scenarios.