Intelligent Road Inspection with Advanced Machine Learning; Hybrid Prediction Models for Smart Mobility and Transportation Maintenance Systems

EasyChair Preprint 2416

Abstract

Prediction models in mobility and transportation maintenance systems have been dramatically improved through using machine learning methods. This paper proposes novel machine learning models for intelligent road inspection. The traditional road inspection systems based on the pavement condition index (PCI) are often associated with critical safety, energy and cost issues. Alternatively, the proposed models utilize surface deflection data from falling weight deflectometer (FWD) tests to predict the PCI. Machine learning methods are the single multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and radial basis function (RBF) neural networks as well as their hybrids, i.e., Levenberg-Marquardt (MLP-LM), scaled conjugate gradient (MLP-SCG), imperialist competitive (RBF-ICA), and genetic algorithms (RBF-GA). Furthermore, the committee machine intelligent systems (CMIS) method was adopted to combine the results and improve the accuracy of the modeling. The results of the analysis have been verified through using four criteria of average percent relative error (APRE), average absolute percent relative error (AAPRE), root mean square error (RMSE), and standard error (SD). The CMIS model outperforms other models with the promising results of APRE=2.3303, AAPRE=11.6768, RMSE=12.0056, and SD=0.0210.

Keyphrases: Artificial Neural Networks, Falling Weight Deflectometer, Mobility, Multilayer Perceptron, Pavement Condition Index, Radial Basis Function, Transportation, intelligent machine system committee, pavement management, prediction model

@booklet{EasyChair:2416,
  author    = {Nader Karballaeezadeh and Farah Zaremotekhases and Shahaboddin Shamshirband and Amir Mosavi and Narjes Nabipour and Peter Csiba and Annamária R. Várkonyi-Kóczy},
  title     = {Intelligent Road Inspection with Advanced Machine Learning; Hybrid Prediction Models for Smart Mobility and Transportation Maintenance Systems},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 2416},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}