Abstract:In order to study and predict the attenuation law of the anti-skid performance of the asphalt pavement of the expressway, the pavement anti-skid performance index (SRI) and traffic volume data of an expressway in southern Sichuan from 2016 to 2021 are collected. The influence of traffic load and pavement age on the anti-skid performance of the asphalt pavement is analyzed. The RNN neural network model and the LSTM neural network model are established. Taking SRI values, cumulative axle loads and pavement ages over the years as inputs, and the SRI value of the last year as the output, the anti-skid performance indexes of the expressway SMA pavement are predicted. And the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and the root mean square error (RMSE) are used to evaluate the prediction accuracy of the RNN neural network and the LSTM neural network. The results show that the average MAPE and RMSE values of the training set and the test set of the LSTM neural network are 0.296 7, 0.349 9, 3.914 3, and 3.621 6, respectively. Compared with the RNN neural network, these values are reduced by 1.002 8, 1.021 4, 0.441, and 0.201 1, respectively, which indicates that the LSTM model can effectively predict the anti-skid performance index of the SMA pavement.