---
title: "Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA): research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 197 archived papers mentioned Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (14)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 197 archived papers mentioned Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (14). (as of 2026-11-04)"
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window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
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---

# Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA)

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/6.md)

Collections used to compare forecasting and time-series classification methods.

- data category: Time-series and traffic benchmarks
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: PeMS, PEMS-BAY, PEMS04, PEMS08, PEMSD4, PEMSD8, METR-LA

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Time-series and traffic benchmarks datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/time-series-and-traffic-benchmarks.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 197 archived papers mentioned Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA) in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (14).
- Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA) was mentioned in 2 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #133 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Operations Research (1) and Economics (1).
- Most of them appeared in Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (1) and Energy Policy (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA) was mentioned in 214 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (116), operations research (40) and health economics and policy (19).
- 66 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Southeast University (7), Tongji University (7) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Artificial Intelligence Review (12), Neural Computing and Applications (12) and Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (12).
- The most-cited of them is “A hybrid deep learning based traffic flow prediction method and its understanding” (Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies, 2018), with 800 citations.
- Papers use Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA) most often with International Energy Agency (IEA) (20), ETT (electricity transformer temperature) (12) and UCR / UEA archives (12); it has 34 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 60 | 63 | 74 | 197 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 39 | 28 | 34 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 12 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 57 | 66 | 63 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/data-mining-and-knowledge-discovery.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 7 |
| 2 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 7 |
| 3 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Politecnico di Milano](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/politecnico-di-milano.md) | 5 |
| 8 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) | 5 |
| 9 | [University of Bristol](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bristol.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Griffith University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/griffith-university.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 67 |
| 2 | United States | 33 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 4 | Australia | 22 |
| 5 | Germany | 22 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 18 |
| 7 | Italy | 16 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 9 |
| 9 | Spain | 9 |
| 10 | France | 9 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | traffic flow prediction | 28 |
| 2 | traffic prediction | 14 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 13 |
| 4 | intelligent transportation systems | 13 |
| 5 | [time series forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/time-series-forecasting.md) | 12 |
| 6 | multivariate time series forecasting | 11 |
| 7 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 10 |
| 8 | PeMS dataset | 9 |
| 9 | [quality-adjusted life years](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/quality-adjusted-life-years.md) | 9 |
| 10 | spatiotemporal dependencies | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 800 | 7.7 | [A hybrid deep learning based traffic flow prediction method and its understanding](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.03.001) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-03-20 | Yuankai Wu, Huachun Tan, Lingqiao Qin et al. |
| 2 | 635 | 18.9 | [A review of graph neural networks: concepts, architectures, techniques, challenges, datasets, applications, and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-023-00876-4) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2024-01-16 | Bharti Khemani, Shruti Patil, Ketan V. Kotecha et al. |
| 3 | 595 | 16.8 | [Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Predictive Learning in Urban Computing: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2023.3333824) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2023-11-23 | Guangyin Jin, Yuxuan Liang, Yuchen Fang et al. |
| 4 | 572 | 21.4 | [A Survey on Graph Neural Networks for Time Series: Forecasting, Classification, Imputation, and Anomaly Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3443141) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-08-14 | Ming Jin, Huan Yee Koh, Qingsong Wen et al. |
| 5 | 312 | 5.7 | [A multi-head attention-based transformer model for traffic flow forecasting with a comparative analysis to recurrent neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117275) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2022-04-21 | Selim Reza, Marta Campos Ferreira, José J. M. Machado et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA) most often with International Energy Agency (IEA) (20), ETT (electricity transformer temperature) (12) and UCR / UEA archives (12); it has 34 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

*What papers use Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA) together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [International Energy Agency (IEA)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/international-energy-agency-iea.md) | Dataset | 20 | 4.7 |
| [ETT (electricity transformer temperature)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ett-electricity-transformer-temperature.md) | Dataset | 12 | 61.8 |
| [UCR / UEA archives](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ucr-uea-archives.md) | Dataset | 12 | 21.6 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 8 | 0.4 |
| [OpenStreetMap](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/openstreetmap.md) | Dataset | 7 | 5.5 |
| [Wikipedia](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wikipedia.md) | Dataset | 7 | 1.5 |
| [ENTSO-E / Nord Pool electricity data](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/entso-e-nord-pool-electricity-data.md) | Dataset | 5 | 12.0 |
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 5 | 0.4 |
| [MIMIC](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mimic.md) | Dataset | 5 | 3.3 |
| [NYC taxi trips](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nyc-taxi-trips.md) | Dataset | 5 | 18.8 |
| [WITS / TRAINS tariff data](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wits-trains-tariff-data.md) | Dataset | 5 | 1.6 |
| [CEC benchmark functions](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cec-benchmark-functions.md) | Dataset | 4 | 1.4 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA) in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | [Measuring the state of open science in transportation using large language models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106024) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Junyi Ji, Ruth Lu, Linda Belkessa et al. | Vanderbilt University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Université Gustave Eiffel; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [Green hydrogen promotion in Cameroon: Implications for sustainable development](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115629) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | Anja Brumme, Alexander Golub, Anil Markandya et al. | TU Bergakademie Freiberg; American University; University of the Basque Country; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/traffic-pems-metr-la

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-traffic-pems-metr-la,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/traffic-pems-metr-la}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).