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ACEE Int. J. on Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1, Aug 2013
I n d e x Te r m s R o u g h n e s s , I n t e r n a t i o n a l R o u g h n e s s
IndexConstruction Work Zones.
I. INTRODUCTION
Roughness is defined as the deviation of a surface from a
true planar surface with characteristics dimensions that affect
vehicle dynamics and ride quality (ASTM Specification E8672A). Many indices are developed for quantification of road
roughness. Some widely used indices include International
Roughness Index (IRI), Ride Number (RN), Profile Index (PI)
etc. The International Roughness Index (IRI) was established
in 1986 by the World Bank.
It was first introduced in the International Road
Roughness Experiment (IRRE) that was held in Brazil. The
IRI is internationally accepted standard for calibration of
roughness measuring instruments. The IRI is based on
simulation of the roughness response of a car travelling at
80 km/h which expresses a ratio of the accumulated
suspension motion of a vehicle, divided by the distance
travelled during the test IRI and RN are commonly used
because of their stability and reproducibility [2].
Artificial neural networks, Genetic programming and Fuzzy
techniques have great variety of applications in
Transportation engineering and are capable of modeling
uncertain relationships. Numerous researches have been
conducted to evaluate pavement condition. Rada [1]
proposed a life cycle cost model and a cost effectiveness
method for project level pavement management. Mactutis [4]
et al had done investigations on the relationship between
IRI, rutting and cracking using large database.
Dewan and Smith [5] had derived a linear relationship
between IRI and pavement condition based on 39
observations. Lin et al [6] had analyzed the relationships
between IRI and pavement distress based on a backpropagation neural network methodology. Yousefzadeh et al
[8] had discussed the capability of using neural networks for
road profile estimation using neural networks.
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Insight into pavement roughness definition gives the idea
that longitudinal profile measurement in the wheel path yields
better roughness evaluation but it is possible to take many
profiles along a line, hence well-defined path encountered
by most of the vehicles should be traced, but the issue is that
how best sample can be taken, therefore roughness is
calculated by taking average of all single lane paths, with IRI
obtained separately in each wheel path at intervals of 0.5 m
(Fig.2).
The road roughness can be determined using the equation: IRI = 0.593+0.0471D (2.4 <IRI< 15.9) where IRI is the
roughness in terms of the International Roughness Index (m/
km) and D is measured from the Merlin chart. Indian Road
Congress, SP 16 gives the norms for Roughness for Indian
conditions. Cracking, Rutting and potholing are the three
parameters included in the study of pavement distress. The
distress survey for the pavement condition was done by visual rating as proposed by Amarnath et al. [7].Deduct value
is defined as the value that represents the condition of the
existing pavement. A series of curves have been developed
for correcting the Total Deduct Value (TDV).The Pavement
Condition Index (PCI) for each section of road stretchis calculated asPCI = 100 CDVwhere, CDV = Corrected or
Normalised Deduct Value (Not exceeding 100). The curves
for determination of corrected deduct values depending on
the number andcombination of distress parameters.Pavement
Condition details along NH 67 Stretch of TrichyTanjavur
Section is given in Table I.
III. METHODOLOGY
A. Model Development
Input variables of the model include cracking, potholes
and rutting and the output is IRI. The Input and Output
values were normalized. Levenberg-Marquardt backpropagation training algorithm was used. The methodology
of the model development is as shown in Fig.3.
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TABLE I. PAVEMENT
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cracking, rutting and potholes by visual rating.The samples
of IRI collected in construction work zones were divided into
two parts, one for training and another for testing. Out of 43
samples, 70% of the samples were taken as training set and
the remaining 30% were used for testing.The performance
during training and testing is evaluated by performance
indices such as Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean
Absolute Error (MAE).They are computed as shown in (1)and
(2)
THE MODEL
CONCLUSIONS
In this study, the potential of artificial neural network
methods, Levenberg-Marquardt back-propagation is
employed for the estimation of IRI from pavement condition
for effective management of construction work zones. The
developed model were trained and tested and the statistical
criteria of performance evaluation were calculated. The model
yields an R2 value of 0.86 and MSE of 0.041.The results
indicate that the performance of neural network is
satisfactoryand it is feasible for IRI prediction. Higherprecision
can be obtained with large database and with more Input
variables.
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Fig 5. Coefficient of correlation for the training
data and testing data
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The accuracy of the system proposed is determined by ttest.This is done to validate to show the closeness between
actual and Predicted IRI values at 0.05significancelevel.The
result of the t-test is summarized in Table III.
TABLE III. RESULTS OF STATISTICAL -TEST FOR PREDICTED AND ACTUAL IRI
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