Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions

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    • Steel versus Steel-Reinforced Concrete Bridges: Environmental Assessment 

      Arpad Horvath; Chris Hendrickson (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998)
      Bridge material selection has traditionally been based on engineering and economic criteria. With the increasing interest of the public, industry, and government in sustainable development, environmental assessment in ...

    • Nonlinear Pavement Distress Model Using Dynamic Vehicle Loads 

      M. Asghar Bhatti; James W. Stoner (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998)
      The relationships between axle weight and pavement damage are traditionally based on data collected from road tests. The goal of the research presented in this paper is to use available field data to develop nonlinear ...

    • Improving IDOT's Pavement Condition Rating Process 

      Kathryn A. Zimmerman; Ronald Knox (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998)
      The State of Illinois has been conducting Condition Rating Surveys (CRS) for nearly 30 years. The results of these condition surveys have become the primary vehicle for providing the executive and legislative offices with ...

    • Simplified Formulation of Virgin and Overlaid Pavement Deterioration Models 

      Moshe Livneh (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998)
      A universal-type model, taking into account the various possible forms of deterioration rates during a pavement's life span, was introduced by the writer elsewhere. The subsequent deterioration curves for each cycle of the ...

    • Integration of Bridge Management Systems and Nondestructive Evaluations 

      George Hearn; Hyung-seop Shim (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998)
      A basis for the direct use of data from nondestructive evaluation methods in bridge management systems is presented. Bridge management systems use integer-valued condition ratings to recognize conditions of bridge elements, ...

    • Seismic Performance Assessment of Water Delivery Systems 

      Howard H. M. Hwang; Huijie Lin; Masanobu Shinozuka (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998)
      This paper presents a method for assessing the seismic performance of a water delivery system with the aid of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. In the proposed method, pipe damage from ground shaking and soil ...

    • Resource Allocation for Army Installation Management 

      Elizabeth A. Lind; John V. Farr; James L. Kays (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Given the recent decreases in the defense budget, unfunded contingency operations, aging military infrastructure, and restationing of overseas troops to within the continental United States, military commanders must make ...

    • Fuzzy Set-Based and Performance-Oriented Pavement Network Optimization System 

      Kelvin Wang; Fengxian Liu (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      The objective of the current network optimization system (NOS) model used in Arizona is to minimize annual pavement preservation cost over the planning period. This paper presents an alternative NOS model with the objective ...

    • Designing Network Partitions to Improve Maintenance Routing 

      Padma Kandula; Jeff R. Wright (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      The problem of designing districts for winter maintenance operations for a state department of transportation (DOT) is considered in this study. Many maintenance activities, including snow removal, are routed to serve ...

    • Multistage Heuristic Approach for Solving Infrastructure Investment Decision Problems 

      Ting-Ya Hsieh; Hsin-Lung Liu (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      The solution of an infrastructure investment decision problem is highly complex. The mathematical model developed in this paper represents the investment decision as a 0-1, nonlinear, multiobjective knapsack selection ...

    • Risk Analysis of Traffic and Revenue Forecasts for Road Investment Projects 

      William H. K. Lam; M. L. Tam (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998)
      In this paper, a simulation model for risk analysis making use of the Monte Carlo technique is devised to incorporate the uncertainty in traffic and revenue forecasts for road investment projects. The risk analysis would ...

    • Forecasts of Funding Needs for Infrastructure Renewal 

      Stephen E. Leslie; Issam A. Minkarah (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      The objective of the work from which this paper was derived included the development of a construction estimating technique for preparing long term cost and timing forecasts of funding needs for renewal of constructed ...

    • Comprehensive Level of Service: Needed Approach for Civil Infrastructure Systems 

      Allan D. Chasey; Jesus M. de la Garza; Donald R. Drew (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Levels of Service for infrastructure systems should be defined in terms of both capacity (Level of Availability) and maintenance (Level of Operation). Levels of Service for a highway system consider capacity, but assume ...

    • Sustainable Operation of Threatened Infrastructures 

      Yacov Y. Haimes (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998)

    • Virtual Environments and Water Quality Management 

      António S. Câmara; Jorge N. Neves; Joaquim Muchaxo; João Pedro Fernandes; Inês Sousa; Edmundo Nobre; Manuel Costa; João Mil-Homens; António Carmona Rodrigues (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998)
      The recent developments in multimedia and virtual reality technologies allow water resources to be studied with the realism associated with site investigations and the “what if” analysis capabilities common in simulation ...

    • Improved Procedures for Structural Integrity Evaluation of Bridges 

      Suphasit Sirisak; P. K. Basu (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998)
      Three aspects of accurate evaluation of structural integrity of truss bridges are presented: indirect damage identification, strength evaluation based on inelastic large deformation shakedown analysis, and residual fatigue ...

    • Issues in Building the European High-Speed Train Network 

      Emile Quinet (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      A European high-speed train network is profitable from a collective point of view. But the schemes devised by the European Union seem to be much too ambitious, and should be carefully fine-tuned. The project encounters ...

    • Selection Method for Trenchless Technologies 

      Robert A. McKim (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Trenchless technologies offer contractors and end users (primarily municipalities) a broad spectrum of tools from which to select when installing or rehabilitating underground infrastructure. Due to the large and expanding ...

    • Installation Status Report 

      Thomas E. O'Hara; James L. Kays; John V. Farr (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      The U.S. Army maintains more than 200 installations within the 50 states and another 95 overseas. However, money has been shifted from maintenance of facilities on these installations to training and the support of operations ...

    • Infrastructure and Economic Development: Airport Capacity in Chicago Region, 2001–18 

      Geoffrey J. D. Hewings; Graham R. Schindler; Philip R. Israilevich (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      In this paper an attempt is made to establish a relationship between airport capacity and economic development in the Chicago metropolitan area. Formulating a quantitative link between infrastructure and development has ...