Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions
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Multicriteria Group Decision-Making Technique for a Low-Class Road Maintenance Program
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Low-class roads substantially differ from main roads in terms of extensiveness, databank availability, and profitability, which stresses the need for an extraordinarily sophisticated decision-making mechanism for maintenance ... -
Network-Level Infrastructure Management Using Approximate Dynamic Programming
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)This research introduces the use of approximate dynamic programming to overcome a variety of limitations of distinct infrastructure management problem formulations. The form, as well as the parameters, of a model specifying ... -
Quantification of the Environmental Benefits of Ultrafine/Nanotitanium Dioxide Photocatalyst Coatings for Concrete Pavement Using Hybrid Life-Cycle Assessment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The use of titanium dioxide -
Field Procedures for Real-World Measurements of Emissions from Diesel Construction Vehicles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Construction vehicles are a source of nonroad mobile air pollutant emissions. Emissions from construction vehicles are typically quantified based on steady-state modal engine dynamometer tests using uninstalled stationary ... -
Life-Cycle Assessment Modeling of Construction Processes for Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)This research examined the environmental impacts due to the construction phase of commercial buildings. Previous building research has often overlooked the construction phase and focused on the material and use phases, ... -
Highway Network Retrofit under Seismic Hazard
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)In this paper, we use a two-stage stochastic programming model to optimize retrofit decision for highway systems so that damage caused by future earthquakes will be minimized. This work is an example of applying network ... -
Markov and Neural Network Models for Prediction of Structural Deterioration of Storm-Water Pipe Assets
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Storm-water pipe networks in Australia are designed to convey water from rainfall and surface runoff. They do not transport sewerage. Their structural deterioration is progressive with aging and will eventually cause pipe ... -
Dynamic Life-Cycle Modeling of Pavement Overlay Systems: Capturing the Impacts of Users, Construction, and Roadway Deterioration
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Pavement systems provide critical infrastructure services to society but also pose significant impacts related to large material consumption, energy inputs, and capital investment. A life-cycle model was developed to ... -
Adaptive Climate Response Cost Models for Infrastructure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The climate in Alaska is changing with temperatures and precipitation increasing, and experts say those changes will continue. The changing climate will, among other kinds of social and economic effects, damage public ... -
Maximizing Temporary Housing Safety after Natural Disasters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)In the aftermath of large-scale natural disasters, emergency management organizations are expected to provide safe temporary housing for a large number of displaced families and to ensure that these housing arrangements ... -
Autonomous Mowing—Improving Efficiency and Safety of Roadside Vegetation Control
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)This paper discusses the use of autonomous mowers for application in highway vegetation control. In recent work by these writers, a unique autonomous mower testbed has been developed to prove the efficacy of such an approach. ... -
Cost Savings Analysis of Performance-Based Contracts for Highway Maintenance Operations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Highway agencies around the world are undergoing major changes in their traditional maintenance practices, including the privatization of entire sections of highway routine maintenance activities. Performance-based contracts ... -
Effects of Pavement Spatial Variability on Contractor’s Management Strategies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Performance-based maintenance contracts are becoming an increasingly popular method of outsourcing pavement maintenance work. These contracts transfer performance-related risks to contractors with the objective of reducing ... -
Asset Management for Urban Wastewater Pipeline Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Pipelines account for the lion’s share of the lifetime costs of any typical urban wastewater collection. While the deterioration of pipeline is the obvious “frontline” reason to adopt asset management practices, a more ... -
Methodological Framework for Evaluation of Financial Viability of Public-Private Partnerships: Investment Risk Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The development of highway infrastructure has increasingly been shifting toward the use of public-private partnerships (PPP) and alternative methods of project financing. In such schemes, the evaluation of their financial ... -
Determinants of Industry Acceptance for Highway Warranty Contracts: Alabama Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)There is an increasing demand from state DOTs to explore alternative ways to provide adequate oversight on construction projects. As one of the innovative contracting techniques encouraged by the Federal Highway Administration, ... -
Pipe Routing through Ant Colony Optimization
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)As the need to better manage scarce water resources and water distribution systems increases, the problem of efficient routing of piping networks is gaining importance within the framework of an overall strategy for improving ... -
Average Treatment Effect for Modeling Maintenance Work
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The evaluation of the effect of maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) activities plays a critical role in pavement management systems. A quantification of the treatment effect usually resorts to simple statistical regression ... -
Probability of Failure Analysis due to Internal Corrosion in Cast-Iron Pipes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)In cast-iron pipes, chlorine consumption due to internal corrosion is high compared with consumption caused by other water-quality factors in such systems and may be considered as an approximate indicator of the rate of ...