Traffic Speed Forecasting in Urban Cities: A Time-Series Benchmark Evaluation and HCMC-Traffic Dataset Extension
摘要
Accurate traffic speed forecasting is a key component of intelligent transportation systems, supporting congestion management and travel time optimization in modern cities. This study investigates urban traffic as a multivariate time-series problem and conducts a benchmark evaluation across multiple real-world datasets. To address the lack of regional data diversity, we extend the benchmark with a new dataset collected from Ho Chi Minh City, reflecting complex dynamics in tropical urban environments. The proposed evaluation framework systematically analyzes temporal patterns, spatial correlations, and generalization behaviors across city-level networks. Experimental results confirm the importance of integrating spatial–temporal structures for robust forecasting and reveal practical challenges when transferring models between heterogeneous cities. The study contributes a unified benchmark setting and an open HCM traffic dataset (Ho Chi Minh City) for advancing research on urban traffic time-series forecasting.