Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions
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Delivery Approach for Coastal Infrastructure Facilities: Case of the Transshipment Seaport of Sidon
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001)This paper reports on the new seaport of ancient Sidon (the larest city in Southern Lebanon), whose implementation program is currently underway. Extensive debate has taken place, and a comprehensive investigation has been ... -
Energy Tax and Choice of House Construction Techniques in India
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001)Energy conservation is an important issue in building design. Therefore, it is logical to apply the principle of energy costing to building projects and to look for ways to minimize the total energy consumed during the ... -
External Costs of Air Emissions from Transportation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001)The production of equipment and materials used for transportation facilities and services can have significant environmental effects. Considerable effort is expended to reduce such effects as efficiently and effectively ... -
Investment Risk Analysis in Port Infrastructure Appraisal
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Return risk is an important consideration for developers and financiers of port infrastructure. This paper examines the impact of various sources of risk in port infrastructure development using the two-moments method. The ... -
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Leontief-Based Model of Risk in Complex Interconnected Infrastructures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001)Wassily Leontief received the 1973 Nobel Price in Economics for developing what came to be known as the Leontief input-output model of the economy. Leontief's model enables understanding the interconnectedness among the ... -
Screening Cycle Decision Modeling for Infrastructure Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Those responsible for the supervision of a collection, or group, of infrastructure-related structures often create programs to screen those structures for safety. These programs systematically move through the group, ... -
Field Tests on HDPE Pipes Installed Using Horizontal Directional Drilling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)The results of two field tests on instrumented high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes installed using horizontal directional drilling (HDD) are presented in this paper. HDD is a method of installing underground pipelines ... -
BOT-Based Approaches to Infrastructure Development in China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001)Continuous rapid economic growth in the past two decades places heavy demands on infrastructure facilities in China, which in turn provides attractive but often challenging development opportunities for foreign investors. ... -
Multiobjective Methodology for Highway Safety Resource Allocation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Decision making in improving highway safety involves minimizing the frequency and severity of vehicular crashes by selecting countermeasures and allocating resources optimally among various competing highways. In the current ... -
Impedance-Based Health Monitoring of Civil Structural Components
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper presents experimental evidence on the use of the impedance-based health-monitoring technique on components typical of civil structures. The basic principle behind this technique is to utilize high-frequency ... -
Infrastructure Risk Analysis of Municipal Water Distribution System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)The purpose of this paper is to present an application of the infrastructure risk analysis model to a small municipality. The paper begins by decomposing the water system along the dimensions of function, component, ... -
Partnered Project Performance in Texas Department of Transportation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Partnering traditionally refers to strategic alliances or agreements between private sector owners and construction contractors to work together for extended periods of time to deliver completed facilities. Private sector ... -
Classification of Defects in Sewer Pipes Using Neural Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Deterioration of underground infrastructure facilities such as sewer pipes poses a serious problem to most developed urban centers today. As distribution piping networks age, they deteriorate and may ultimately fail to ... -
Temperature-Moment Concept for Evaluating Pavement Temperature Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Pavement temperature profile data can be quite useful in the analysis of stresses in jointed concrete pavements produced by temperature gradients within the slabs. Many stress analysis procedures consider the temperature ... -
System for Evaluating Underground Pipeline Renewal Options
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Trenchless technology (TT) consists of a wide range of methods to install or rehabilitate existing underground pipelines with minimal excavation of the ground. In the past, excavation was used almost exclusively to restore ... -
Historical Developments of World Infrastructure: From Archanthropos to Space Exploration
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Infrastructure Risk Analysis Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)One key element of our nation's infrastructure is our communities' drinking water supplies. Growing consumption by expanding populations, industrial and public pollution, the tragedies of both nature and human accidents, ... -
Requalification and Maintenance of Marine Pipeline Infrastructures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper proposes a general approach for risk assessment and management of marine pipeline infrastructures. The system is identified as RAM PIPE REQUAL. The approach is based on use of qualitative (level 1), quantitative ... -
Engineering System Research in the Information Technology Age
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