Abstract: In Portugal, as in many other countries, due to the economic crisis, the trend of budgetary pressures on highway agencies is increasing. At the same time, road users are increasingly demanding in terms of highway quality, ...

Abstract: Optimization-based tools have been included in many engineering management systems for individual infrastructure asset classes such as pavement management systems (PMS) and bridge management systems (BMS). These tools ...

Abstract: Pavement management systems (PMSs) are increasingly important tools in the decision-making processes regarding the maintenance and rehabilitation of road pavements. A new optimization model to be used within network-level ...