Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions
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Using a Guiding Network to Determine Efficient Evacuation Routes in a Public Building
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Previous studies of models for evacuation routing usually divide the space into multiple interlinked zones. However, for public buildings that are characterized by a more complicated spatial composition, it may be harder ... -
Research and Development Priorities for Energy Islanding of Military and Industrial Installations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Research and development for energy systems (e.g., smart and secure microgrids for industrial and military installations and solar cogeneration technologies) must account for deep uncertainties and emergent conditions ... -
Fault-Tree Model for Risk Assessment of Bridge Failure: Case Study for Segmental Box Girder Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Over the past few decades, the design capacity and service condition of many bridges, which are vital components of the surface transportation infrastructure reliability and functionality, have been challenged by rapid ... -
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Construction, Manufacturing, Operation, and Maintenance of U.S. Distribution Infrastructure for Petroleum and Biofuels
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)To meet greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the transportation sector, the United States is expected to expand infrastructure for producing and distributing lignocellulosic biofuels over the next decade. To compare the ... -
Special Issue on Infrastructures in a Changing Environment
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Incorporating Bayesian Networks in Markov Decision Processes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This paper presents an extension to a partially observable Markov decision process so that its solution can take into account, at the beginning of the planning, the possible availability of free information in future time ... -
Simulating Freight Traffic between Atlantic Canada and Québec to Support Pavement Management on New Brunswick’s Regional Highways
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Traffic loading for pavement deterioration should be modeled as a dynamic indicator based on trip distribution derived from spatial economics. The estimation of modal distribution of trips and land development has been the ... -
Two-Stage Support Vector Classifier and Recurrent Neural Network Predictor for Pavement Performance Modeling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Accurate prediction of pavement performance is essential to a pavement infrastructure management system. The prediction process usually consists of classifying sections into families and then developing prediction curves ... -
Current and Emerging Water Main Renewal Technologies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)The funding needed to address aging water infrastructure ranges in the hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 25 years, and at current replacement rates, pipes are being expected to last for 200 years, although pipes ... -
Use of Decorative Concrete Overlay for Transportation Infrastructure Design
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)The novel concept of applying decorative concrete overlay (DCO) during the infrastructure design process supports the nationwide initiative for increased implementation of context-sensitive solutions. The DCO is a ... -
Life-Cycle Costs and Emissions of Pareto-Optimal Residential Roof-Mounted Photovoltaic Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Research has separately existed for life-cycle costs and environmental assessment of photovoltaic systems. This study provides a framework for the identification of the optimal set of residential photovoltaic system options ... -
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Numerically and Experimentally Based Reliability Assessment of a Concrete Bridge Subjected to Chloride-Induced Deterioration
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Maintaining an adequate safety level in concrete bridges under gradual degradation due to traffic and environmental actions is not only an expensive task, but also filled with some level of uncertainty. Degradation in ... -
Identifying Critical Components in Infrastructure Networks Using Network Topology
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This paper applies graph theory metrics to network flow models, with the aim of assessing the possibility of using these metrics to identify vulnerable areas within infrastructure systems. To achieve this, a reduced ... -
Road Drainage in Sweden: Current Practice and Suggestions for Adaptation to Climate Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This paper describes current practice in road surface and subsurface drainage in Sweden and analyzes the necessity for adaptation of the planning, construction, operation, maintenance and monitoring of road drainage measures ... -
Developing a Transnational Biofuels Refueling Infrastructure: EU Biofuels Corridors
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This article outlines issues to be tackled when considering increases in biofuel usage in the European Union (EU) and examines a potential scheme to increase the use of biofuels in the road transport sector; the development ... -
Environmentally Preferable Pavement Management Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Many departments of transportation (DOTs) rely on pavement management systems (PMSs) to plan maintenance operations by identifying schedules that maximize overall network condition subject to cost constraints. PMSs do not ... -
Integrating Semiparametric and Parametric Models in Survival Analysis of Bridge Element Deterioration
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)The central challenge in developing deterioration models for infrastructure facilities based on field data, is the right selection of base models along with the specific nature of the available condition data. A parametric ... -
Real Options–Based Approach for Valuation of Government Guarantees in Public–Private Partnerships
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)A fast and computationally efficient valuation tool assists governments involved in Public–Private Partnership (P3) projects to examine many contractual configurations and design a guarantee that minimizes cost and reasonably ... -
Using the Economic and Financial Reequilibrium Model to Decrease Infrastructure Contract Incompleteness
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Renegotiations are becoming an undesirable protagonist in infrastructure concessions, raising doubts about the merit of this procurement model. Renegotiations emerge as a consequence of contract incompleteness. When contracts ...