An Intelligent Visualisation Tool to Analyse the Sustainability of Road Transportation

Sustainability

Roberto Alcalde¹  Carlos Alonso de Armiño²  Santiago García²  Álvaro Herrero³  Daniel Urda³ 

[1] Departamento de Economía y Administración de Empresas, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Burgos, Pza. de la Infanta Dª. Elena, S/N, 09001 Burgos, Spain;Departamento de Ingeniería de Organización, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Burgos, Av. Cantabria S/N, 09006 Burgos, Spain;Grupo de Inteligencia Computacional Aplicada-GICAP, Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Burgos, Av. Cantabria S/N, 09006 Burgos, Spain;

关键词: artificial intelligence;    unsupervised machine learning;    exploratory projection pursuit;    clustering;    road transportation;    transport sustainability;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su14020777

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Road transport is an integral part of economic activity and is therefore essential for its development. On the downside, it accounts for 30% of the world’s GHG emissions, almost a third of which correspond to the transport of freight in heavy goods vehicles by road. Additionally, means of transport are still evolving technically and are subject to ever more demanding regulations, which aim to reduce their emissions. In order to analyse the sustainability of this activity, this study proposes the application of novel Artificial Intelligence techniques (more specifically, Machine Learning). In this research, the use of Hybrid Unsupervised Exploratory Plots is broadened with new Exploratory Projection Pursuit techniques. These, together with clustering techniques, form an intelligent visualisation tool that allows knowledge to be obtained from a previously unknown dataset. The proposal is tested with a large dataset from the official survey for road transport in Spain, which was conducted over a period of 7 years. The results obtained are interesting and provide encouraging evidence for the use of this tool as a means of intelligent analysis on the subject of developments in the sustainability of road transportation.

【 授权许可】

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