Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions
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Novel Index for Vulnerability Assessment of Flexible Pavement Infrastructure to Temperature Rise: Case Study of Developing Countries
(ASCE, 2021-12-27)Road infrastructure is engineered to perform through constant exposure to climatological stressors. Due to climate change in particular, expected rises in the average ambient and extreme temperatures, pavement performance ... -
Community Capitals Framework for Linking Buildings and Organizations for Enhancing Community Resilience through the Built Environment
(ASCE, 2021-12-08)The goal of this paper is to define a quantitative measurement system capable of capturing multiple dimensions of a community impacted by disaster. The multiple dimensions of a community are defined here as the seven ... -
Network Analytics for Infrastructure Asset Management Systemic Risk Assessment
(ASCE, 2022-02-10)The ever-increasing investment gap for deteriorating infrastructure has necessitated the development of more effective asset management (AM) strategies. However, information asymmetry among AM stakeholder silos has been ... -
Infrastructure Decision-Making under Climate Change Uncertainty: Case Study of Centralized Heating at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
(ASCE, 2021-12-08)Increased prevalence, lower cost, and reduced environmental impacts have granted natural gas status as a bridge fuel over the past decade in place of coal-fired heat and power generation across the United States. As a ... -
Building Resilience in Civil Infrastructure Systems: System-Level Biomimicry to Address Complex Managerial Challenges
(ASCE, 2021-12-10)This technical note proposes the adoption of biomimicry at the system level as an innovative method to help solve the complex managerial challenges for civil infrastructure resilience. Although biomimicry has been adopted ... -
Flexible Planning for Intercity Multimodal Transport Infrastructure
(ASCE, 2021-11-25)Planning transport infrastructure development involves high levels of uncertainty due to socioeconomic, environmental, and technological changes. Methodologies currently used in transport planning often have minimal ... -
A Bootstrap-Based Integer Programming Algorithm for Budget Allocation in Pavement Management Systems
(ASCE, 2021-12-28)Underfunding and the continuous deterioration of pavement assets have been among the major challenges for transportation agencies in the US. These challenges motivate the use of different optimization techniques such as ... -
Network-Level Bridge Deterioration Prediction Models That Consider the Effect of Maintenance and Rehabilitation
(ASCE, 2021-11-22)With the increasing number of aging bridges that need maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R), it is important to plan and prioritize M&R projects proactively. This process requires mathematical models capable of ... -
Integrated Modeling of Tap Water Perception and Consumption of Bottled Water: An Exploratory Analysis
(ASCE, 2021-11-18)This paper presents a new integrated approach to address household perceptions of the quality of tap water and the influence of such perceptions on households’ decisions to use bottled water and the related consumption ... -
Simplified Exhaustive Search Approach for Estimating the Nonhomogeneous Transition Probabilities for Infrastructure Asset Management
(ASCE, 2021-10-18)A simplified exhaustive search approach is proposed to estimate the nonhomogeneous transition probabilities for a particular infrastructure element. The yearly nonhomogeneous transition probabilities associated with ... -
Emergency Decision-Making System for the Large-Scale Infrastructure: A Case Study of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project
(ASCE, 2021-11-11)Large-scale infrastructure operates in a complex and uncertain environment. When an unexpected safety accident occurs, efficient emergency decision-making plays a crucial role in safe operation. Case-based reasoning (CBR) ... -
Managing Participants’ Behaviors: A Framework to Improve the Process Efficiency of Transport Public-Private Partnerships
(ASCE, 2021-10-18)Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are critical for delivering infrastructure assets worldwide. They encompass a variety of public and private organizations, and therefore, participants’ behavior can significantly affect ... -
Effect of Runtime on the Deterioration of HVAC Components in Building Services
(ASCE, 2021-10-21)Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning components are among the significant component groups in building services. Around 50% of a buildings’ energy consumption is related to HVAC systems. Published research has indicated ... -
Transportation Infrastructure Decision Flexibility in Response to Climate Change and Demand Uncertainties: The Mackenzie Valley Highway in Canada’s Northwest Territories
(ASCE, 2021-10-28)Barge transport operations on the Mackenzie River, a major transportation corridor in the Northwest Territories, are impacted by multiple sources of uncertainties. In particular, the impacts of climate change on this ... -
Evaluation of Compression Algorithms for 3D Pavement Image Data
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)A standard interchangeable data format was recently developed through the Transportation Pooled-Fund Study TPF-5(299) to meet different requirements and needs for two- and three-dimensional (2D/3D) pavement image data ... -
Rolling Stock Monitoring with Wayside Train-Monitoring Systems Using Fiber Optic Cords
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)Real-time train monitoring is becoming a major challenge for infrastructure managers (IMs). Infrastructure failures caused by the poor condition of trains significantly increase maintenance costs and cause numerous traffic ... -
Coupled Continuous-Time Markov Chain–Bayesian Network Model for Dam Failure Risk Prediction
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)Hydropower dams are critical infrastructure systems characterized by their complex, dynamic, and stochastic behaviors. The frequent variation in the hydrological and meteorological variables poses a higher probability of ... -
Economic Impact Assessment of Severe Weather–Induced Power Outages in the US
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)Every year power outages affect millions of people. In the US, historical data show that between 2000 and 2016, 75% of outages (in terms of duration) were caused by severe weather events. The National Association of ... -
Integrated Planning of Operational Maintenance Programs for Water and Gas Distribution Networks
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)Drinking water and natural gas are essential goods provided by municipal distribution networks. In order for there to be a reliable provision of such commodities, infrastructure managers must regularly dispatch vehicles ... -
Coopetition Strategies of International Joint Ventures for High-Speed Railway Projects
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)The mode of international joint ventures (IJVs) has been widely used in international high-speed railway (HSR) projects. This study aims to investigate coopetition strategies of IJVs for HSR projects. The grounded theory ...