Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions
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Parametric Analysis of Roadway Infrastructure Vulnerability to Disruptions
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Pavement Repair Marginal Costs: Accounting for Heterogeneity Using Random-Parameters Regression
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Review of Approaches and Recommendations for Improving Resilience of Water Management Infrastructure: The Case for Large Dams
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Condition Assessment of Ground-Mount Cantilever Weathering-Steel Overhead Sign Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This paper is a part of an expansive research work aimed at assessing 82 weathering steel overhead sign structures (WSOSSs) in the Charleston Interstate System in West Virginia. A total of 26 comprehensive inspection forms ... -
Practical and Simplified Approach for Quantifying Bridge Resilience
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Application of Fuzzy Preference–Analytic Hierarchy Process Logic in Evaluating Sustainability of Transportation Infrastructure Requiring Multicriteria Decision Making
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Selection and construction of sustainable infrastructure is a complex process due to multicriteria decision requirements. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a widely used multicriteria decision tool in civil engineering ... -
Impact of Climate Change on Disruption to Urban Transport Networks from Pluvial Flooding
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Short-duration, high-intensity rainfall causes significant disruption to transport operations, and climate change is projected to increase the frequency and intensity of these events. Disruption costs of flooding are ... -
Hidden-Model Processes for Adaptive Management under Uncertain Climate Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Predictions of climate change can significantly affect the optimization of measures reducing the long-term risk for assets exposed to extreme events. Although a single climate model can be represented by a Markov stochastic ... -
Classification of Nondestructive Evaluation Tasks for Reinforced Concrete Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods have received growing acceptance in many testing tasks in the assessment of concrete infrastructures. Substantial progress in NDE methods for concrete structures can be achieved by ... -
Progress and Challenges in Incorporating Climate Change Information into Transportation Research and Design
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The vulnerability of our nation’s transportation infrastructure to climate change and extreme weather is now well documented and the transportation community has identified numerous strategies to potentially mitigate these ... -
Framework for Incorporating Downscaled Climate Output into Existing Engineering Methods: Application to Precipitation Frequency Curves
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)To improve the resiliency of designs, particularly for long-lived infrastructure, current engineering practice must be updated to incorporate a range of future climate conditions that are likely to be different from the ... -
Incorporating Risk and Uncertainty into Infrastructure Asset Management Plans for Pavement Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The risk in multiyear asset management plans for pavement networks stems from uncertainties in inputs to these plans. Although the literature is rich in probabilistic models and procedures for individual components of asset ... -
Methodology for Probabilistic Modeling of Highway Bridge Infrastructure Condition: Accounting for Improvement Effectiveness and Incorporating Random Effects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The peculiar nature of bridge infrastructure condition data persistently poses challenges in predicting bridge component deterioration that necessitate the continued investigation of probabilistic modeling techniques. These ... -
Application of Fault Tree Analysis to Identify Moisture Damage Potential in Flexible Road Pavements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Highway engineers understand the damaging impact on the performance of the road pavement when excess water enters into the pavement. As a consequence, most pavement design and rehabilitation methods recognize the importance ... -
Accounting for Endogeneity in Maintenance Decisions and Overlay Thickness in a Pavement-Roughness Deterioration Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Pavement deterioration models are an important part of any pavement management system. Many of these models suffer from endogeneity bias because of the inclusion of independent variables correlated with unobserved factors, ... -
Infrastructures as Socio-Eco-Technical Systems: Five Considerations for Interdisciplinary Dialogue
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)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 ... -
A Fuzzy-Based Evaluation of Financial Risks in Build–Own–Operate–Transfer Water Supply Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The build–own–operate–transfer (BOOT) scheme is widely used for the provision of new bulk water supply. However, this scheme is complex and carries significant financial risks because of the characteristics of the water ... -
Conceptual Modeling Framework to Integrate Resilient and Interdependent Infrastructure in Extreme Weather
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This paper addresses two areas of inquiry: (1) critical infrastructure resilience as recovery and (2) infrastructure interdependencies and dependencies, and both of these areas are evaluated in the context of ... -
Systemic Seismic Vulnerability of Transportation Networks and Emergency Facilities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)In the aftermath of an earthquake, structural damage and debris represent major obstructions to the mobility of evacuees and first responders and to normal economic activities. Few studies have integrated the performance ... -
Stochastic Modeling of Road System Performance during Multihazard Events: Flash Floods and Earthquakes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Transport resilience is an important area of research in the global effort to adapt to climate change. This paper introduces and applies a stochastic modeling methodology to assess the impact of multihazard events. Most ...