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