Abstract: Railways are vital infrastructures whose design is complex and time-consuming. In addition to multiple conflicting objectives and highly-constrained search spaces, their design also faces great uncertainties. The aim of ...

Abstract: Construction investment and geological risk of a railway project are significantly influenced by the alignment design. Thus, for railways in earthquake-prone regions, the seismic risks should be addressed at the alignment ...

Abstract: Railway alignment optimization is a large-scale and time-consuming civil engineering problem. To solve it, a three-dimensional distance transform (3D-DT) algorithm, which is a variant of the three-dimensional Euclidean ...

Abstract: We investigate the use of multiepoch airborne and terrestrial lidar to detect and measure ground displacements of sufficient magnitude to damage buried pipelines and other water system facilities that might result, for ...