Forecasting of the International Roughness Index for Flexible Pavement in Arid Regions Using Artificial Intelligence
摘要
Pavement-management agencies progressively explore advanced forecasting tools. This study developed AI algorithms to predict the International Roughness Index (IRI) of asphalt concrete pavements in Egyptian urban roads as a representative example of arid regions. Three predictor variables were investigated in this study: pavement age, mean temperature, and precipitation. For this purpose, 921 data points were collected from the urban road network in the governorate of Beni Suif. A statistical analysis was performed to evaluate the correlation between IRI and the selected variables. Four different prediction models, namely, linear regression (LR), random forest (RF), XG boost (XGB), and artificial neural network (ANN), were utilized. The predictions of the proposed models showed that the ANN yielded the best fit with a coefficient of determination (