Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions
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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, ... -
Generating Near-Optimal Road Condition–Capacity Improvement Decisions Using Monte Carlo Simulations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Road travel cost can be defined as a function of condition and volume-capacity factors. Asset managers intervene on heavily trafficked and poor condition roads based on criteria to optimize network travel and intervention ... -
Feasibility Study on Use of Drone-Based Infrared Thermography for Soil Moisture Detection in Highway Embankment and Dam Inspections
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This research explored the capabilities of drone-based infrared thermography technology for soil moisture detection on embankment/dam soils. FLIR Vue Pro R, a radiometric thermal camera, was evaluated in both laboratory ... -
Efficient Decision Tree-Based Classification Models to Predict Safety Rating for Bridge Maintenance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)To address insufficient costs and manpower available for maintenance of aging bridges, recent research has been examining advanced maintenance technologies that can theoretically predict the condition and performance of ... -
Control Rights Incentive Mechanism for PPP Projects Considering Financial Institutions’ Early Intervention
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The unreasonable distribution of control rights delaying project operating income and the extension of debt repayment periods incur the highest economic losses to financial institutions as the primary fund providers of ... -
Comprehensive Impact Analysis of a Transportation Hub Complex under Earthquake Effects: A Case in China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The transportation hub complex (THC) is an urban landmark building integrating the functions of transportation, commerce, office, and residence. Due to its convenient transportation and diverse service functions, the THC ... -
Simulation-Based Evaluation of Resilience-Enhancing Measures for Transportation Systems Subject to Hydrometeorological Hazard Events
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper identifies the essential requirements for simulation-based approaches such that these approaches serve as effective decision support tools for evaluating the effectiveness of climate-adaptation measures that ... -
REWET: A Tool to Model System Functioning and Restoration of Damaged Water Supply Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The process of restoring water supply after service is interrupted is critical for determining the durations and spatial distribution of outages and thus the impacts that households, businesses, and others ultimately ... -
Resilience Assessment of Urban Water Distribution Networks under Disturbance Influence of Aftershocks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Water distribution networks (WDNs) are essential for urban water supply and postearthquake recovery. Conducting a seismic resilience assessment of a WDN and taking corresponding improvement measures can improve the disaster ... -
Application of a Hybrid Approach in Developing Urban Road Livability-Related Indicators for the Sustainable Urban Road Rating System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In light of recent sustainable development goals, there is a growing demand for developing a systematic and quantifiable sustainable roadway assessment, also known as a sustainability rating system, on a global scale. ... -
Data Cleaning Framework for Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation Decision-Making in Pavement Management System Based on Artificial Neural Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The quality of data in a pavement management system (PMS) has a direct impact on pavement maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) decisions and management. However, pavement performance data and M&R action data often ... -
Evolutionary Game Analysis of the Opportunistic Behaviors in PPP Projects Using Whole-Process Engineering Consulting
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Opportunistic behaviors are common in public–private partnership (PPP) projects. The contractor involvement in a whole project lifecycle is essential to ensure successful project planning, delivery, and operation, namely, ... -
Intelligent Pixel-Level Rail Running Band Detection Based on Deep Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The rail running band is a mathematical representation describing the continuous strip-shaped spatial surface resulting from the rolling contact operation of train wheels on the rail surface, which establishes a direct ... -
Determining Critical Cascading Effects of Flooding Events on Transportation Infrastructure Using Data Mining Algorithms
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Transportation infrastructures and operations can be severely impacted during flood events, leading to significant disruptions to the flow of goods and services. Although numerous studies have evaluated the direct impacts ... -
Using a Bike as a Probe Vehicle: Experimental Study to Determine Road Roughness with Piezoelectric Sensors
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Road roughness, defined by the International Roughness Index (IRI), is a critical criterion for ride quality and comfort, meticulously monitored by road authorities to address maintenance needs. This paper introduces a new ...