Journal of Infrastructure Systems
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EISSN:1943-555X|ISSN:1076-034|Disc:The Journal of Infrastructure Systems publishes cross-disciplinary papers about methodologies for monitoring, evaluating, expanding, repairing, replacing, financing, or otherwise sustaining the civil infrastructure. The infrastructure supporting human activities includes complex and interrelated physical, social, ecological, economic, and technological systems such as transportation, energy production and distribution; water resources management; waste management; facilities supporting urban and rural communities; communications; sustainable resources development; and environmental protection. Increasingly, inter- and multidisciplinary expertise is needed not only to design and build these systems, but to manage and sustain them as well. Typical management problems are fraught with uncertain information, multiple and conflicting objectives, and sometimes numerous and conflicting constituencies. Solutions are both complex and cross-disciplinary in nature and require the thoughtful integration of sound engineering judgment, economic flexibility, and institutional forbearance. Papers considered for publication must contain a clear and well-defined engineering component and make a contribution to the art and science related to infrastructure systems|Priority:4|Publisher:American Society of Civil Engineers|
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Evaluating the Resilience of Interdependent Infrastructure Systems with a Focus on Community Livability
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Infrastructure systems play a critical role in creating a livable environment for human societies. Hence, enhancing the resilience of infrastructure systems against the adverse impacts of disasters has become a prominent ... -
Hands-Free Crowdsensing of Accessibility Barriers in Sidewalk Infrastructure: A Brain–Computer Interface Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Crowdsourced human sensing provides a critical complement to urban physical sensing networks to detect city infrastructure disrepairs and inform strategized maintenance. However, motivating public participation remains ... -
A Comparative Study on Selecting the General Circulation Model for Pavement Design in China: A Case Study of Beijing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Climate change and extreme weather threaten the global infrastructure. This paper aims to estimate the future temperature rise impact on the asphalt pavement design, especially addressing the performance uncertainty from ... -
Exploring the Adoption of Construction Technologies in Infrastructure Projects: Bridging Perceptions of Experts with Real Project Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Infrastructure projects have progressively adopted construction technologies, yet previous studies have not fully explored technology utilization by comparing the perceptions of experts with actual project data. This ... -
Mechanism of Asset Devaluation in the Planning Stage of Urban Rail Transit PPP Projects in China: A System Dynamics Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Urban rail transit public–private partnership (PPP) projects are characterized by their significant public attributes and strong externalities. They often exhibit low profitability and require substantial capital for ... -
Intelligent Multitasking Framework for Boundary-Preserving Semantic Segmentation, Width Estimation, and Propagation Modeling of Concrete Cracks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Crack detection is crucial for ensuring the durability, safety, and structural integrity of civil infrastructure. Traditionally, this task involves manual inspections and crack width measurements using a crack width ... -
Pavement Defect Detection Based on Ground Penetrating Radar and Deep Active Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Deep learning can assist ground penetrating radar (GPR) to accurately identify the internal defects of airport track structure. However, deep learning often requires many annotated samples. For this purpose, a deep active ... -
Cascade Invulnerability of an Urban Agglomeration Highway–Railway Composite Network Considering Node Differences
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Urban agglomeration transport network is affected by risks such as internal failure, natural disasters or deliberate attacks, which can easily lead to functional fragmentation and make it difficult to meet the needs of ... -
Pixel-Level Efficient Detection of Pavement Seal Cracks: Two-Dimensional Image Recognition Based on DLANet
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper introduces DLANet, an algorithm for semantic segmentation designed to enhance the pixel-level detection of sealing cracks. DLANet extends the DeepLabV3+ encoder-decoder architecture by integrating four different ... -
Project-Level Optimization of Repair Activities for the Recovery of Transportation Assets after Inland Flood Events
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Postdisaster reconstruction poses a major challenge as it requires a trade-off between rapid restoration and a more prolonged, cost-conscious approach. Quick restoration reduces community disruptions but comes at a higher ... -
Heuristic Selection in Disaster Recovery Sequencing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Transportation network recovery after an extreme hazard or natural disaster is time sensitive and resource intensive, with hundreds or thousands of damaged links needing repair. The associated optimization problem is ... -
Impact of Project Manager Competency on Owner’s Trust Level: Data from Infrastructure Megaprojects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Trust plays a crucial role in the implementation of infrastructure megaprojects. Project manager competency is an essential factor in the formation of the owner’s initial trust in the contractor. Research based on the ... -
Development of a Holistic Wellbeing Framework and Conceptual Model for Infrastructure Investment: A Comprehensive Approach to Performance Monitoring for Intergenerational Wellbeing Outcomes in New Zealand
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Investment decisions and our infrastructure’s performance are under increasing pressure to provide transformative solutions to address social injustice, environmental impacts, and poverty and improve intergenerational ... -
Collaborative Evolutionary Model of the Hybrid Governance System of Public–Private Partnership Infrastructure Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) are widely used in infrastructure construction due to their great advantages in the supply of public services. The evolutionary process linking hybrid governance and PPP project performance, ... -
Pavement Condition Prediction for Communities: A Low-Cost, Ubiquitous, and Network-Wide Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Effective prediction of pavement deterioration is critical to forecast infrastructure performance and make infrastructure investment decisions under escalating environmental and traffic change. However, most communities ... -
Multiyear Maintenance and Rehabilitation Optimization for Large-Scale Infrastructure Networks: An Enhanced Genetic Algorithm Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Multiyear network maintenance and rehabilitation optimization is a key, longstanding challenge for infrastructure asset management. Although genetic algorithms (GAs) have been widely used as the default optimization tool, ... -
Multisource Data-Driven Approach for Predicting the Deterioration of High Mast Light Poles along Highways
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Predicting the deterioration of high mast light poles (HMLPs) can support capital planning and asset management for highway agencies, such as inspection and maintenance prioritization decisions. This paper aims to develop ... -
Multimodal Fusion Network for Crack Segmentation with Modified U-Net and Transfer Learning–Based MobileNetV2
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This study introduces a state-of-the-art methodology for addressing crack segmentation challenges in structure health monitoring, a crucial concern in infrastructure maintenance. The main objective is to enhance real-time ... -
Incorporating Economies of Scale in Top-Down Pavement Management Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Top-down maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction (MR&R) policies typically are modeled using Markov decision processes (MDPs). Within this framework, the total agency costs are assumed to increase linearly with ... -
Advanced Deep Learning–Based Hybrid Rail Extraction Algorithm Leveraging LiDAR Technology
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In the United States, around 1/3 of the rail network is operated by short lines. These railroads play an important role in the nation’s transportation system by serving as the feeder and distributor for the rail network, ...