Impact of Sethu Samudram Ship Canal Project on Marine Traffic - An Artificial Neural Network Modelling

摘要

This paper serves as an introduction to artificial neural network ANN with emphasis on their application in Transportation Engineering. It presents a brief description of ANN, the underlaying concept and mathematical aspects and the role of ANN relative to other modelling approaches in transportation. Some popular ANN architecture and algorithms, and the merits and shortcomings of this methodology are discussed. The artificial neural network in this paper has demonstrated its usefulness and accuracy in predicting the traffic of Tuticorin port, which is going to gets maximum benefits due to the implementation of Sethu Samudram Ship Canal Project. The variation between the measured values and predicted values of traffic is very less, thus, proving that the artificial neural network has correctly predicted the traffic of Tuticorin port.