Machine learning algorithms are among the driving forces towards the success of intelligent road network systems design. Such algorithms allow for the design of systems that provide safe road usage, efficient infrastructure, and traffic flow management. One such application of machine learning in intelligent road networks is classifying different road network types that provide useful traffic information to road users. We propose a deep autoencoder model for representation learning to classify road network types. Each road segment node is represented as a feature vector. Unlike existing graph embedding methods that perform road segment embedding using the neighbouring road segments, the proposed method performs embedding directly on the road segment vectors. The proposed method performs embedding directly on the road segment vectors. Comparison with state-of-the-art graph embedding methods show that the proposed method outperforms graph convolution networks, GraphSAGE-MEAN, graph attention networks, and graph isomorphism network methods, and it achieves similar performance to GraphSAGE-MAXPOOL.
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