Applying an Automated Storage and Retrieval System to a Centralized Bus Maintenance Facility
Gannett Fleming recently completed the design of a new Central Maintenance Facility for the Southern California Rapid Transit District. An integral part of this facility is an automated...
Particles, Pretreatment, and Performance in Water Filtration
Relationships among raw water quality, pretreatment facilities, and the design of packed bed filters are presented and applied. The particle size, particle concentration, particle surface...
The Transit Industry Microcomputer Exchange Support Center
The Transit Industry Microcomputer Exchange Support Center has been in existence for nearly three years. This paper describes the reasons for establishing the center, its current activities,...
Implementing a Maintenance Program in Wisconsin
A vehicle maintenance and parts inventory control microcomputer package was developed and implemented for thirteen small transit properties as a part of the Statewide Microcomputer Implementation...
Microcomputers in Urban Drainage Design
Microcomputers offer an inexpensive method for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of drainage design personnel. This paper discusses some of the benefits and uses of microcomputers...
Microcomputers and CADD for Roadway Design
In 1984 the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) implemented a Computer-Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) pilot project to evaluate CADD for performing roadway design functions....
Designing Infrastructure User Charge Strategies
The changing environment of public finance is such that greater use of self-funding and financial independence will be required of public facilities and municipal services. Traditionally,...
Funding Streets as a Public Utility
A group of public works professionals in Washington State met in 1982 to explore using the public utility approach to street and transportation system funding. Since that time several...
Paying for the Costs of Public Service?Methods and Issues
This paper addresses the impacts on urban infrastructure in terms of the facilities and services required and how they are paid for. Particular emphasis is placed on a methodological approach...
Legislative Trends Affecting the Funding of Public Works
The paper reviews key factors that will shape legislative consideration of measures to provide infrastructure to support urban growth and to maintain existing public facilities. The discussion...
Policies to Encourage Innovation in Infrastructure
The paper discusses public policies that encourage, promote, and finance infrastructure innovation, terming these essential if excellence and cost-effectiveness are to be realized. Among...
Design of Structures to Resist Nuclear Weapons Effects
This manual provides guidance to engineers engaged in designing facilities intended to resist nuclear weapons effects. Although emphasis is placed on blast-resistant design, other effects...
Reducing Failures of Engineered Facilities
One of the most serious problems of modern professional practice is the collapse or malfunction of an engineered facility. The tragic consequences of this problem are all too familiar...
Construction Research Applied to Practice
The five papers compiled in these proceedings of the ASCE technical session Construction Research Applied to Practice represent important contributions to the construction industry. Four...
Avoiding Contract Disputes
Contract disputes among parties involved in the construction project are very expensive in both time and dollars. Owners, designers, construction managers and contractors all share in...
Rehabilitation, Renovation, and Reconstruction of Buildings
This document constitutes the proceedings for a National Science Foundation funded workshop to discuss research needs pertaining to the buildings side of infrastructure. It includes discussion...
Putting CADD to Work
Case histories show that engineering with CADD is no longer experimental. Projects reviewed in this article include an office/shop building for an electrical utility, a flood plain site...
Journal of Management in Engineering
The Journal of Management in Engineering offers an avenue for researchers and practitioners to present contemporary issues associated with management and leadership for the civil engineer. The journal...
Structures Congress Honors Fazlur Khan
Speakers at a session of the 1983 ASCE Structures Congress paid tribute to the late Fazlur R. Kahn by describing his work in developing structural systems for highrise buildings that were...
Underground Building Reclaims a Landfill
Oregon's Multnomah County built a road and maintenance facility underground to begin reclaiming an old landfill site. More than 600 precast concrete components make up the...
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