Application of IFS in Horizontal Curve Design

Intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) is useful in providing a flexible model to elaborate

uncertainty and vagueness involved in decision making. IFS proposed its application
in horizontal curve design which explained in details comparison with numerical
solution and put new relation to definite the union and the intersection operations. The
existing geometric design guides provide deterministic design criteria for highway
elements that ignore the uncertainty associated with many design parameters.

The deterministic approach for road design has two main shortcomings: First,
the selection of the percentile values is not based on definitive safety measures and
the safety margin of the design output is generally unknown. Second, there is little
knowledge on the safety implications of deviating from the design standards. The
problem description uses the concept of IFS that advocated as an approach to account
for this uncertainty and to evaluate the risk associated with a particular design feature.

From the data collection from the deterministic design (supply or standard or
ideal case) between the radius and the operating speed: as shown in the Table 3-11 for
11 curves.

Table 4-11: Radius V.S Operating speed

Rm 200 250 300 350 400 450

V kph 80.38 84.21 86.78 88.61 90 91.09

Table 4-11: Radius V.S Operating speed continued

Rm 500 550 600 650 700

V kph 91.096 92.68 93.38 93.8 94.23

 But from the ASHTTO (demand) between the radius and the operating speed: as
shown in the Table 3-12 for 11 curves.

Table 4-12: Radius V.S Operating speed (demand)

Rm 200 250 300 350 400 450

75 77.5 80 82.5 85 87.5

V 1 kph

Table 4-12: Radius V.S Operating speed (demand) continued

Rm 500 550 600 650 700

90 92.5 95 97.5 100

V 1 kph

From the data according to the tables: We can use the intuitionistic fuzzy set as

tool let V  { V 1 } be the set of operating speed (demand) and R =

{200,250,300,350,400,450,500,550,600,650,700} be the set of radius related to the

horizontal curve design.

An IF-set is a pair of mappings  ,  : x  [0, 1] such  ( x )   ( x )  1

.For any x  X . In our case X is the set of roads.

If  ( x ) is the required speed according to radius (membership degree)

required speed accordind to radius

 (x )  (4/7)
high speed

Where: High speed is (100 kph).

The non-membership degree  ( x ) calculated by:

 1  ( x )
 (x )  (4/8)
1 2  ( x )

And

The hesitation degree  (𝑥) calculated by:

 ( x )  1  (  ( x )   ( x )) (4/9)

For example:

From Supply, if the radius is 400 m and the operating speed is 90 kph from the
high speed (100 kph):

90
  (x )   0.9
100

10.9
  (x )   0.0357
1 (2*0.9)

  ( x )  1  (0.9  0.0357)  0.0643

So, we can do this Table 3-13.

Table 4-13: Radius V.S Operating speed 2

Rm 200 250 300 350 400 450
V kph (0.8038, (0.8421, (0.8678, (0.8861, (0.9, (0.9109,
0.0752, 0.0588, 0.0483, 0.041, 0.0357, 0.0316,
0.121) 0.0991) 0.0839) 0.0729) 0.0643) 0.0575)

Table 4-13: Radius V.S Operating speed 2 continued

Rm 500 550 600 650 700

V kph (0.91096, (0.9268, (0.9338, (0.938, (0.9423,
0.0315, 0.0256, 0.023, 0.0215, 0.02,
0.0575) 0.0476) 0.0432) 0.0405) 0.0377)
 Each performance is described by three numbers i.e. membership, non-
membership and hesitation margin. But the demand: as shown in this Table 3-14.

Table 4-14: Radius V.S Operating speed 3

Rm 200 250 300 350 400 450
(0.75, (0.775, (0.8, (0.825, (0.85, (0.875,
V 1 kph
0.1,0.15) 0.0882, 0.0769, 0.066, 0.0555, 0.0454,
0.1368) 0.1231) 0.109) 0.0945) 0.0796)

Table 4-14: Radius V.S Operating speed 3 continued

Rm 500 550 600 650 700
(0.9,0.0357, (0.925, (0.95,0.0172, (0.975, (1,0,0)
V 1 kph
0.0643) 0.0263, 0.0328) 0.0084,
0.0487) 0.0166)

Using Eq. (4/1) to calculate the distance between each operating speed with
reference to supply and each operating speed with reference to the demand, we get the
table below.

Table 4-15: Operating speed

V kph
0.15897
V 1 kph

From the Table 3-15, V 1 is less than 0.5. So, this horizontal curve is the suitable

because it achieves suitable risk according to the supply (ideal case or standard). And
if the result be greater than 0.5, this horizontal curve will be fail.
 So, we use intuitionistic fuzzy set to under control the solution because this is
11 curves and easy in operating and accurate calculation and results from any other
mathematical method where it is very tall. And also if we think to draw the supply
and the demand as shown in Fig 4-2 where the supply with the red color and the
demand with the blue color, from it we note that the demand less than the supply in
the part of the image. So, we can talk it is safety but in the other part of the image the
demand is greater than the supply and can`t judge the demand suitable or not.

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Fig. 4-2: Radius V.S Operating speed