Traffic congestion is a significant problem that adversely affects the economy, environment, and public health in urban areas worldwide. One promising solution is to forecast road-level congestion levels in the short-term and long-term, enabling commuters to avoid congested areas and allowing traffic agencies to take appropriate action. In this study, we propose a hybrid deep neural network algorithm based on High-Resolution Network (HRNet) and ConvLSTM decoder for 10, 30, and 60-min traffic congestion prediction. Our model utilizes the HRNet’s multi-scale feature extraction capability to capture rich spatial features from a sequence of past traffic input images. The ConvLSTM module learns temporal information from each HRNet multi-scale output and aggregates all feature maps to generate accurate traffic forecasts. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed model can efficiently and effectively learn both spatial and temporal relationships for traffic congestion and outperforms four other state-of-the-art architectures (PredNet, UNet, ConvLSTM, and Autoencoder) in terms of accuracy, precision, and recall. A case study was conducted on the dataset from Seoul, South Korea.

In recent years, the governments in many countries have recognized the importance of data in boosting their economies. As a result, they are implementing the philosophy of open government data (OGD) to make public data easily and freely available to everyone in standardized formats. Because good quality OGD can boost a country’s economy, whereas poor quality can jeopardize its efficient use and reuse, it is very important to maintain the quality of data stored in open government data portals (OGDP). However, most OGDPs do not have a feature that indicates the quality of the data stored there, and even if they do, they do not provide real-time service. Moreover, most recent studies focused on developing approaches to quantify the quality of OGD, either qualitatively or quantitatively, but did not offer an approach to automatically calculate and visualize it in real-time. To address this problem to some extent, this paper proposes a framework that can automatically assess the quality of data in the form of a data completeness ratio (DCR) and visualize it in real-time. The framework is validated using the OGD of South Korea, whose DCR is displayed in real-time using the Django-based dashboard.

With the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the function of AI in a sixth generation (6G) environment is likely to come into play on a large scale. Moreover, in recent years, with the rapid advancement in AI technology, the ethical issues of AI have become a hot topic. In this paper, the ethical concern of AI in wireless networks is studied from the perspective of fairness in data. To make the dataset fairer, novel dataset categorization and dataset combination schemes are proposed. For the dataset categorization scheme, a deep-learning-based dataset categorization (DLDC) model is proposed. Based on the results of the DLDC model, the input dataset is categorized based on the group index. The datasets based on the group index are combined using various combination schemes. Through simulations, the results of each dataset combination method and their performance are compared, and the advantages and disadvantages of fairness and performance according to the dataset configuration are analyzed.