Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions
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Evaluation of Maintenance Decisions to Optimize Navigable Inland Waterway Lock Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)An investment gap in America’s inland waterways (IWWs) has been fueled by decades of low investments, which has negatively impacted the reliability of the waterway’s locks. US IWWs, which transport commodities and support ... -
Emergency Resilience-Driven Retrofit Strategies for Urban Interdependent Infrastructure Systems under Seismic Hazard
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Interdependent infrastructure systems play a critical role in the normal operation and postdisaster emergency response in modern cities. However, they are vulnerable to earthquakes throughout their service life, resulting ... -
Simulation-Based Stress Tests: Integrated Simulation Approach for Assessing Resilience of Transport Systems under Multiple Stressors
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)A transportation system stress test is a set of one or more hypothetical scenarios designed to help determine if a transport system can continue to provide an acceptable level of service when subjected to one or more ... -
Discover Spatiotemporal Association and Causation between Potholes and Flat Tire Frequency
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This study attempts to untangle the association and causation between pavement potholes and vehicle flat tire frequency. To this end, the study collected pothole data from crowdsourced user-generated reports and extracted ... -
Protecting Critical Infrastructure for Disasters: NLP-Based Automated Information Retrieval to Generate Hypothetical Cyberattack Scenarios
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Cyberattacks disrupt systems, leaving critical infrastructure vulnerable to adversaries, especially during natural disasters. Furthermore, when both a cyberattack and a natural disaster occur concurrently, there are limited ... -
Critical Challenges in Execution of Hybrid Annuity Model Construction Projects: Understanding the Contractor’s Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The hybrid annuity model (HAM) is an innovative procurement mode that combines elements from build–operate–transfer and engineering procurement and construction approaches. Because of its novelty, there is a limited ... -
Optimizing the Resilience of Coastal Water Supply Infrastructure System to Sea-Level Rise with Combined Adaptive Measures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Coastal water supply infrastructure systems are critical to modern society. This paper proposes a model to develop improvement strategies for the resilience of these systems to sea-level rise, incorporating both predisaster ... -
An Automated Pavement Marking Retroreflectivity Condition Assessment Method Using Mobile LiDAR and Video Log Images
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Pavement markings are a key transportation asset and traffic control device that facilitate safe and predictable driving. The effectiveness of pavement markings is dependent on their condition, particularly during nighttime ... -
Measurement of Asphalt Pavement Crack Length Using YOLO V5-BiFPN
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Pavement cracks are a kind of common distress in road service time, and their length measurement is critical for pavement maintenance. The current automatic method of crack length measurement uses segmentation algorithms ... -
Quantification of the Seismic Resilience of Bridge Classes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This paper quantified the seismic resilience (SR) of different bridge classes by performing three-dimensional advanced numerical simulations in Opensees. SR was calculated by performing the seismic resilience for recovery ... -
Development of Deep Learning Pavement Extraction and Crack Segmentation Algorithms to Analyze UAV Images of Roadways
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Over the decades, significant efforts have been made in evaluating pavement condition by mounting cameras on a vehicle and automatically analyzing images by incorporating digital image processing techniques. Despite recent ... -
Predicting Damages to Remainder Parcels in Right-of-Way Acquisitions for Expanding Transportation Infrastructure: Using a Truncated Finite-Mixture Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Right-of-way acquisition is a critical component of transportation infrastructure development. Transportation infrastructure projects cannot proceed without proper right-of-way acquisition or may face significant delays. ... -
Strengthening Project Development in Developing Countries: Investigating the Infrastructure Enabling Environment through a Systems Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Globally, the current stock of infrastructure is not sufficient to meet the rising demand for infrastructure services. Billions of people around the world lack access to essential infrastructure services, especially in ... -
Resilience-Based Optimal Seismic Retrofit and Recovery Strategies of Bridge Networks under Mainshock–Aftershock Sequences
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This paper proposes a mathematical framework for optimal retrofit and recovery strategies of bridge networks. The pre-earthquake and postearthquake management of the highway systems is addressed considering performance ... -
Risk Assessment Method for Forecasting Time-Dependent Aging Effects on Corrosion Rate: Preemptive Bridge Assets Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Current bridge assets management (BAM) is based on a site inspection–based condition rating methodology. Mitigation measures are adapted to assets’ condition assessment results. The reaction approach of bridge infrastructure ... -
Estimating Runway Overrun Risks of Landing Aircraft
(ASCE, 2024/06/01)This paper presents a procedure to estimate runway overrun risks of landing aircraft under different combinations of operating factors, including aircraft landing weight, landing speed, landing location, pavement skid ... -
Development of a Vision-Based Embedded System for Monitoring of Bridge Settlement
(ASCE, 2024/06/01)The assessment of bridge settlements is a challenging and significant problem. Moreover, aging of highway bridges is a growing concern in the US, especially when continuous monitoring is lacking. To facilitate expedient ... -
Impacts of Increased Prediction Accuracy in Management Decisions: A Study of Full-Depth Reclamation Pavements
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)Given the abundance of condition data regularly collected for major roadways, machine learning has the potential to enhance pavement deterioration modeling. This is particularly important for recycling-based rehabilitation ... -
Modeling and Understanding Dispute Causation in the US Public–Private Partnership Projects
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)The partnership between the public and private sectors has led to a new and innovative way of delivering infrastructure projects that is referred to as public–private partnership (PPP). There are various benefits associated ... -
Identifying the Opportunities and Challenges of Project Bundling: Modeling and Discovering Key Patterns Using Unsupervised Machine Learning
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)Project bundling is a strategy that combines several infrastructure projects into a single contract to improve the overall performance of projects. While previous research efforts have been conducted on certain aspects of ...