Bridge Management System Implementation at CALTRANS
Development of a new generation of Bridge Management System (BMS) capabilities has been a high priority for CALTRANS for the past four years. Although the Department has had a bridge inventory...
Building Renovation Decision Support Model
Theoretically, it may be assumed that with proper construction and maintenance the life of a building could be extended almost indefinitely. In practice, however, buildings tend to have...
Model-Based and Interactive Planning for Predictive Plant Maintenance Management
Maintenance of process in power plants represents about 30% of the operating cost of these plants, including the cost of repair labor, materials and out side services but not the cost...
Evolution of Pavement Management Systems at the Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (the Port Authority) operates the world's largest and busiest airport complex as well as an extensive roadway network. To provide effective...
Bridge Monitoring Through Sensor Data Synthesis and Interpretation
The objective of this paper is to outline efforts at the West Virginia University Constructed Facilities Center (CFC) to develop and implement a system for interpretation and synthesis...
Modeling the Spatial Structure of Facility Condition
This study develops methods for information extraction that he bridge the gap between the detailed condition data collected by advanced technologies and the information necessary for maintenance...
A Graphics-Based System for Urban Roadway Management
This paper describes a graphics-based system for urban roadway management. The main objective of the system is to select the cost effective maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R)...
The TM? Railroad Track Management System
The TM$ Railroad Track Management System is designed to increase effective access to track performance data, to forecast the effects of deterioration and maintenance activity, and to formulate...
Airport Infrastructure Management
Airport capacity limitations and the resulting congestion and delay plague the U.S. airports and airways. There is a need for increased investment in airport infrastructure. More importantly...
Exploration of Ground Penetrating Radar for Railroad Tie Maintenance Scheduling
Assessment of railroad ties for replacement is currently performed by visual inspection. This paper describes a method of automated tie assessment using ground penetrating radar (GPR)...
A Condition Rating System for Rubble Breakwaters and Jetties
This paper describes one aspect of a series of projects which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineering has undertaken in an effort to improve maintenance management of coastal and navigational...
Using Condition Indexes to Evaluate Local Railroad Track Networks
The U.S. Army Construction Engineering Laboratories (USACERL) have developed condition indexes for assessing track condition that apply to local railroads. Indexes were developed for the...
Highway Maintenance and Integrated Management Systems
Maintenance management systems were among the first applications of rational management principles and the (then) the new technology of computers to highway operations. Recent changes...
Optimization of a Maintenance Station Network
This report is about a method for optimizing maintenance station and storage networks for maintenance of various traffic channels like streets, roads and sea channels. The results that...
Implementation of a District Level Highway Routine Maintenance Needs Assessment Program
A routine highway maintenance needs assessment program allows a transportation agency to establish a maintenance work program consistent with the objectives of a pavement maintenance management...
TRACS: A Tool for Track Infrastructure Management
TRACS (Total Right-of-way Analysis and Costing system) combines engineering models with life-cycle costing techniques to estimate track maintenance and renewal costs as a function of track...
The State of the Art of Bridge Management Systems
The development of Bridge Management Systems, and Pontis in particular, requires states to change many of their traditional inspection and record-keeping procedures. If these are changed,...
Airfield Pavement Management System
This paper describes a comprehensive Pavement Management System (PMS implemented at 24 airports in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The PMS development and implementation was completed in...
Highway Maintenance Data Collection: State of the Art
Existing procedures for recording highway maintenance and field inventory data re laborious and time consuming because the information is entered twice - first on standard paper forms...
Traffic Signal Management Utilizing Fiber Optic Cable
Fiber optic cable technology has progressed from the pioneer stage and is becoming a widely accepted method of data transmission. Utilization for traffic signal systems, however, is not...
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