Journal of Management in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Profit Allocation and Subsidy Mechanism for Public–Private Partnership Toll Road Projects
(ASCE, 2020)Public–private partnership (PPP) toll road projects are widespread around the world. However, it is difficult to predict traffic demand and cost accurately, which may lead to high profit risks for the private sector or ... -
Developing a Rating Score for Out-of-Sequence Construction
(ASCE, 2020)Out-of-sequence (OOS) construction takes place when an activity or series of activities is not performed according to baseline planned logical productive sequencing. A previous expert-based study by the authors—which has ... -
Evaluating Contractors’ Production Performance in Highway Projects Using Historical Daily Work Report Data
(ASCE, 2020)One of the most crucial tasks that a project owner has to undertake is choosing the most competent contractor for the project. The current body of knowledge on contractor prequalification and selection through bidding ... -
Drivers of Data and Analytics Utilization within (Smart) Cities: A Multimethod Approach
(ASCE, 2020)Data and analytics can be a facilitator and driver of growth for cities. Their significance will likely continue to grow and be amplified by new technological developments. However, research on cities’ utilization of data ... -
Developing WSN/BIM-Based Environmental Monitoring Management System for Parking Garages in Smart Cities
(ASCE, 2020)In recent years, there have been many serious problems with air pollution (such as hazardous gases) in environmental management for parking garages of cities. These problems should be continuously improved and enhanced for ... -
Percent Base Design and Initial Award Performance in Design–Build Highway Projects
(ASCE, 2020)The project influence curve postulates that planning efforts conducted early in a project can influence project success more than later efforts. Although front-end planning has been shown to influence project performance, ... -
How Organizational Support Can Cultivate a Multilevel Safety Climate in the Construction Industry
(ASCE, 2020)Safety climate has a positive impact on safety performance in the construction industry; it is a multilevel phenomenon that can be formed at the organization and group levels, especially in large organizations with a ... -
Enhanced Product Evaluation Tools for State Transportation Agencies to Overcome Commonly Faced Challenges
(ASCE, 2020)Most state transportation agencies (STAs) maintain a qualified product list (QPL), which serves as the primary tool for project managers to select products, materials, and equipment during construction or other maintenance ... -
Environmental and Economic Impacts of Road Infrastructure Development: Dynamic Considerations and Policies
(ASCE, 2020)The traditional techniques employed in the development of road infrastructure projects consume large amounts of energy and nonrenewable resources. This paper evaluates some consequences of roadway construction and maintenance ... -
Evaluating the Role of Infrastructure Components and Demographics on Social Capital in Refugee Camps
(ASCE, 2020)An important asset for displaced people residing in refugee camps is social capital. Social capital, which represents the social networks built among displaced people, the host community, and government actors, helps ... -
Wearable Biosensor and Hotspot Analysis–Based Framework to Detect Stress Hotspots for Advancing Elderly’s Mobility
(ASCE, 2020)As the elderly population continues to grow rapidly, the mobility of elderly individuals has become a primary concern for not only their individual well-being, but also our social prosperity. Despite such importance, the ... -
Environmental Effects of Accelerated Pavement Repair Using 3D Printing: Life Cycle Assessment Approach
(ASCE, 2020)Due to the age of its highway infrastructure system, spall repair projects have become overwhelmingly common in the United States. Critics, however, have highlighted several serious drawbacks to the current repair method, ... -
The Impact of Empowering Front-Line Managers on Planning Reliability and Project Schedule Performance
(ASCE, 2020)This study applies empowerment theory to production planning at the level of frontline managers in a construction project. Using structural equation modeling, we investigate how empowering frontline managers impacts their ... -
Participatory Sensing and Digital Twin City: Updating Virtual City Models for Enhanced Risk-Informed Decision-Making
(ASCE, 2020)The benefits of a digital twin city have been assessed based on real-time data collected from preinstalled Internet of Things (IoT) sensors (e.g., traffic, energy use, air pollution, water quality) for managing the ... -
Hexagonal Diamond Model for International Competitive Advantages of High-Speed Railway Industry
(ASCE, 2020)With the development of the economy, many countries and regions worldwide are implementing or planning to implement high-speed railway (HSR) projects. However, the great international demand has attracted fierce competition ... -
Social Sensing in Disaster City Digital Twin: Integrated Textual–Visual–Geo Framework for Situational Awareness during Built Environment Disruptions
(ASCE, 2020)This paper proposed and tested an integrated textual–visual–geo framework to enhance social sensing techniques in smart city digital twins in the context of disasters. Effective and efficient disaster response and recovery ... -
Using System Dynamics for Strategic Performance Management in Construction
(ASCE, 2020)Balanced scorecard (BSC) and strategy maps (SMs) are among the most popular strategic performance management methods that have been proposed in the literature to define, analyze, and monitor performance and strategies. ... -
Optimal Design of Energy Storage System to Buffer Charging Infrastructure in Smart Cities
(ASCE, 2020)A parallel trend of vehicle automation and electrification represents smart mobility in smart cities. Dramatic growth of electric vehicles (EVs) on roads is projected in the next decade. The pivotal challenge to infrastructure ... -
Smart City Digital Twin–Enabled Energy Management: Toward Real-Time Urban Building Energy Benchmarking
(ASCE, 2020)To meet energy-reduction goals, cities are challenged with assessing building energy performance and prioritizing efficiency upgrades across existing buildings. Although current top-down building energy benchmarking ... -
Cognition Digital Twins for Personalized Information Systems of Smart Cities: Proof of Concept
(ASCE, 2020)Amid the rapid development of information communication technologies (ICTs), residents of future smart cities are expected to be exposed to unprecedented amounts of real-time information on a daily basis. The cognitive ...