Abstract:In order to improve the accuracy of the cost estimation of high-speed railway engineering and simplify the cost estimation procedure of high-speed railway engineering, this paper proposes an intelligent prediction model of the whole life cost of high-speed railway engineering based on the significance cost theory. Firstly, determine the CSIs and csf of similar projects by using the significance cost theory combined with the completed list of similar projects. Secondly, Select similar projects combined with the characteristics of completed projects and planned projects by Cosine Similarity . Then, intelligent forecast the whole life cost of high-speed railway projects by selecting different estimation models based on PSO-RBF, PSO-LSSVM, FCM clustering and FIS ,combined with the number of similar projects, . Finally, verify the accuracy and feasibility of the model by an example. The results show the prediction model ensures the accuracy of estimation and improves the efficiency of cost estimation of high-speed railway engineering.