Evaluation of highway construction foreman's competency based on support vector machine

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to scientifically and quantitatively evaluate highway construction foreman's competency. This article divided the foreman's competency into four dimensions: knowledge dimension, personality dimension, ability dimension and development dimension, including 22 competency elements. The rationality of the competency model was tested by confirmatory factor analysis method and structural equation model. A support vector machine model was trained to evaluate the overall competency of highway construction foreman. The case study shows that the SVM evaluation model has high accuracy and can reliably identify the foreman with excellent competency.