TA-Dash: An Interactive Dashboard for Spatial-Temporal Traffic Analytics -- Demo Paper

TL;DR

TA-Dash is an interactive, adaptable dashboard designed to visualize complex spatial-temporal urban traffic patterns, aiding non-expert users in traffic management and infrastructure analysis.

Contribution

The paper introduces TA-Dash, a flexible visualization tool that enhances accessibility and analysis of spatial-temporal traffic models for urban planning.

Findings

Enables visualization of spatial-temporal traffic patterns.

Supports analysis of impact of special events on traffic.

Facilitates understanding of structural dependencies in road networks.

Abstract

In recent years, a large number of research efforts aimed at the development of machine learning models to predict complex spatial-temporal mobility patterns and their impact on road traffic and infrastructure. However, the utility of these models is often diminished due to the lack of accessible user interfaces to view and analyse prediction results. In this paper, we present the Traffic Analytics Dashboard ( TA-Dash), an interactive dashboard that enables the visualisation of complex spatial-temporal urban traffic patterns. We demonstrate the utility of TA-Dash at the example of two recently proposed spatial-temporal models for urban traffic and urban road infrastructure analysis. In particular, the use cases include the analysis, prediction and visualisation of the impact of planned special events on urban road traffic as well as the analysis and visualisation of structural dependencies within urban road networks. The lightweight TA-Dash dashboard aims to address non-expert users involved in urban traffic management and mobility service planning. The TA-Dash builds on a flexible layer-based architecture that is easily adaptable to the visualisation of new models.