Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions
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Integration Model of Fuzzy AHP and Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Evaluating Highway Infrastructure Investments
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Given that decision making for highway infrastructure development is highly complex, it is highly desirable to access expertise and tools, such as information about the environmental and social cost components of highway ... -
Integrating Risk Assessment into Pavement Management Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The aim of this work is to provide road agencies with a new strategic approach for integrating risk assessment into pavement management systems (PMS). An application to a small portion of the Italian road network is ... -
Anchors of Social Network Awareness Index: A Key to Modeling Postdisaster Housing Recovery
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Reestablishment of housing is a crucial component of the recovery process and has a domino effect on the overall timing of recovery. Anchors of social networks, such as schools and churches, on the other hand, are perceived ... -
Accounting for Business Adaptations in Economic Disruption Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Current economic models specifically designed for infrastructure outage and disaster situations are attempting to incorporate the ability of businesses to prepare for, adapt to, and recover from, disruptions. Using business ... -
Optimal Cracking Threshold Resurfacing Policies in Asphalt Pavement Management to Minimize Costs and Emissions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)There is an increasing need for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within pavement management decision-making. Pavement maintenance activities, such as resurfacing, account for millions of tons of the GHG ... -
Similarity, Modularity, and Commonality Analysis of Navigation Locks in the Netherlands
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)In the coming decades, Rijkswaterstaat (RWS), the executive branch of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, has to replace or thoroughly renovate more than fifty navigation locks. Given the substantial ... -
Managing Infrastructure Systems through Changeability
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Any engineering structure is designed and built to operate in a dynamic and changing environment that cannot be fully predicted at design. Thus, successful designs ought to account for provisions that can handle uncertain ... -
Stochastic Modeling of Bridge Deterioration Using Classification Tree and Logistic Regression
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This paper presents a new method to develop stochastic deterioration models using a combination of methods including Markov chains, logistic regression, and classification trees. It is computationally more efficient to use ... -
Health Care System Disaster-Resilience Optimization Given Its Reliance on Interdependent Critical Lifelines
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Natural or human-made incidents in urban areas cause surges in demand for hospitals while often simultaneously limiting their capacity to serve patients due to direct physical damage or service interruptions in supporting ... -
Applications of UAVs in Civil Infrastructure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, have become popular tools for practitioners and researchers alike. Recent years have seen a significant increase in UAV uses for many applications in the fields of science and ... -
Development of Standard Format for Pavement Image Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Because proprietary image data formats are used in the pavement industry, there is a critical need to develop a standard interchangeable format for pavement surface conditions and transverse profiles such that pavement ... -
Non-Real-Time Transportation Applications: Potential Use of Connected Vehicle Data and Data Infrastructure Requirements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views ... -
Impact of Vehicle Dynamic Systems on a Connected Vehicle-Enabled Pavement Roughness Estimation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Given the advancements of wireless communications and sensor technologies, numerous studies were conducted to investigate the feasibility of using probe vehicle data (i.e., vehicle floor acceleration) for pavement ... -
Economic Viability of a Natural Gas Refueling Infrastructure for Long-Haul Trucks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Low natural gas prices offer an opportunity to expand the use of this fuel in new sectors, such as powering long-haul trucks. The non-return-to-base nature of long-haul trucks requires a large natural gas refueling ... -
Impact of Multiple Highway Funding Categories and Project Eligibility Restrictions on Pavement Performance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)In maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) programming, most budget allocation models in literature often assume one principal budget that can be used for funding all the different projects undertaken by the decision-making ... -
Condition State–Based Civil Infrastructure Deterioration Model on a Structure System Level
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The successful prediction of civil infrastructure’s deterioration process is crucial for making optimal maintenance, rehabilitation, and replacement (MR&R) decisions under financial constraints. The majority of current ... -
Model for Corrective Maintenance Scheduling of Rail Transit Networks: Application to Athens Metro
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Efficient and safe rail transit (metro) operations require regularly inspected and properly maintained infrastructures. While preventive maintenance is usually undertaken following a predetermined schedule, decisions on ... -
Determining Optimal Capital Structure and Concession Period Length in BOT Scheme Using Trilateral Bargaining Game Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Equity:debt ratio and concession period length are the most important financial variables to consider when analyzing a build-operate-transfer (BOT) agreement. Because the involved parties have conflicting interests regarding ... -
Rational Method to Determine Investment Amount for Making Roadways Resilient to a Changing Climate
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The increase in maximum air temperature and annual rainfall caused by climate change can shorten the lives of pavements and hence increase the mileage of roads that would require rehabilitation at any point in the future. ... -
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(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)A road network consists of multiple objects that deteriorate over time with different speeds of deterioration. In order to provide an adequate level of service over time, these objects will eventually require interventions. ...