Construction equipment productivity estimation using artificial neural network model

Seung Ok and Sunil Sinha

Construction Management and Economics, 2006, vol. 24, issue 10, 1029-1044

Abstract: Estimating equipment production rates is both an art and a science. An accurate prediction of the productivity of earthmoving equipment is critical for accurate construction planning and project control. Owing to the unique work requirements and changeable environment of each construction project, the influences of job and management factors on operation productivity are often very complex. Hence, construction productivity estimation, even for an operation with well-known equipment and work methods, can be challenging. This study develops and compares two methods for estimating construction productivity of dozer operations (the transformed regression analysis, and a non-linear analysis using neural network model). It is the hypothesis of this study that the proposed neural networks model may improve productivity estimation models because of the neural network's inherent ability to capture non-linearity and the complexity of the changeable environment of each construction project. The comparison of results suggests that the non-linear artificial neural network (ANN) has the potential to improve the equipment productivity estimation model.

Keywords: Construction equipment; artificial neural network; productivity estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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