A simplified application of fuzzy set theory for the evaluation of pavement roughness

Road and Transport Research

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 21-32

  Loizos, Andreas ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; LASER APPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS;

PAVEMENT ROUGHNESS;

PAVEMENTS;

EID: 0142040188     PISSN: 10375783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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