Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1241-1260 of 1280
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Viewpoint: Airline Planning and Marketing in a Changing Environment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997) -
Engineering Research on Smart Materials and Structural Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)The intelligent renewal of our aging civil infrastructure systems includes efficient use of smart materials and structures. In this viewpoint some examples of projects funded by the National Science Foundation on smart ... -
Controlling Brazil's Pollution: Federal versus State Taxes and Fines
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)This paper presents an analytical framework and numerical policy simulations that assess the relative role of federal and state governments in pollution control management in decentralized economies. The framework is ... -
Condition Assessment for Bridge Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Integrated analytical and experimental research, conducted for exploring objective, global condition assessment and evaluation of bridge serviceability and safety, is summarized. A related terminology with definitions for ... -
Water Distribution Network Reliability: Connectivity Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)This paper presents a methodology to analyze the reliability of a regional water distribution network. The proposed reliability analysis method focuses on the impact of link failures on source-demand connectivity, which ... -
Modeling Rail Fatigue Behavior with Multiple Hazards
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Rail fatigue failures are of great concern to railroad companies because they may cause derailments. Therefore, the railroad companies' objective is to predict the locations and times of potential failures and perform ... -
Viewpoint: Economics of Innovation in the Construction Industry
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Statewide Programming: Implementing Transportation-Policy Objectives
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)This paper reviews several prominent state of the practice prioritization methods, describes the ranking methodology for highway mobility improvements used by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), and ... -
Life-Cycle Costing in Municipal Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)The objective of life-cycle costing (LCC) analysis is to optimize the total cost of ownership over the life span of an asset. A survey was conducted in the early months of 1995 of the largest municipalities in the U.S. to ... -
Reassessment and Requalification of Infrastructure: Application to Offshore Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)A general four-tier reassessment and requalification engineering system is developed. The first-tier approach is the simplest. It is based on a qualitative scoring process. The fourth-tier approach is the most complex. It ... -
Water Distribution Network Reliability: Stochastic Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Stochastic simulation is applied in a reliability analysis of a regional water distribution network. To complement the connectivity-based reliability analysis presented in the companion paper, the proposed stochastic ... -
Condition Assessment of Transportation Infrastructure Using Ground-Penetrating Radar
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology has been applied to the evaluation of pavements, bridge decks, abutments, piers, and other constructed facilities to assess as-built conditions and to evaluate damage and deterioration ... -
Developing Infrastructure Management Systems for Small Public Agency
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1995)Motivated by the management system requirement of the Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act, efforts are being made toward expanding an existing pavement management system (PMS) into a more comprehensive ... -
Managing Railway Fixed Plant
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1995)Engineers have experienced difficulty in applying standard project/construction management techniques (e.g., critical path method) to the reconstruction and maintenance of an operating railway. These problems are most acute ... -
Evaluation of New Underground Infrastructure Maintenance Technologies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1995)Vast sums are spent for the upkeep of the nation's public facilities. The need to contain maintenance costs, which grow as the physical infrastructure ages, is driving the development and use of new technologies. For ... -
Salvaging and Reusing Jacket and Deck Structures of Offshore Platforms
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1995)Reusing salvaged offshore oil and gas production jacket and/or deck structures is a means of reducing the construction cost and schedule. The decision to salvage, refurbish, and reinstall an unused jacket and/or deck ... -
Ranking Models Used for Condition Assessment of Civil Infrastructure Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Statistical ranking models are employed to extract information from an historical database on the prioritization of maintenance and repair operations for embankment dams within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This ... -
Fire-Safety Upgrades in Airport Control Towers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1995)This paper discusses fire-safety upgrades and the various aspects of their design and construction in standard airport traffic control towers (ATCTs) for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the Western Pacific ... -
Risk-Based Spatial Decision Support System for Maintenance Dredging of Navigation Channels
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Planning for the maintenance and improvement of water navigation infrastructure in the United States is a difficult task exacerbated by the uncertainties and variability in natural, engineering, and economic conditions. ... -
Highway Management Systems: State of the Art
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1995)Highway management systems, in use for 25 years, are poised at a major stage of redevelopment. This need for redevelopment is driven by changes in management, decision making, and information requirements in transportation ...