Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions
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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, ... -
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 ...