An Integrated Project Control Model
This paper defines the scope of current project control activities and presents an overview of the tools used to control projects. Problems with current project control systems and the...
Human Factors of Project Organization
The nature of construction demands people who can move with the unique and dynamic conditions of the changing environment. Knowing the requirements of the project environment and culture...
Decision Support System for Achieving and Measuring Design Effectiveness
A microcomputer program is developed to serve as a decision system for improving design effectiveness. The program, called 'Design Effectiveness Evaluation and Implementation...
Great Lakes Levels: Toward Systematic Decision Making
The International Joint Commission (IJC) has authority given by the governments of Canada and the United States to use existing works to regulate the lakes system according to agreed-to...
Characterizing Groundwater Protection Zones
A method is presented for using geoelectrical methods along with a supporting systems methodology to define aquifer and/or well head protection zones. The systems methodology utilizes...
A Comprehensive Tool for Tile Drainage Planning
The objective of the project is to design and develop a set of software tools, building on existing models and computer-assisted procedures, known as an Advanced Decision Support System...
Obstacles to the Use of Social Science Analysis in Water Decision-Making, or Where's the Demand for Social Science Input?
The paper identifies characteristics of both the public decisionmaking process and the methods of social science research that result in social science inputs having little influence on...
Closed-Loop Control for Hydraulic Laboratory Operation
The implementation of Closed-Loop Feedback Control in the Bureau of Reclamation's Hydraulic Laboratory flow delivery system has provided an important new modeling tool for...
Uncertainty and Value Analysis in the Selection of Dam Modification Alternative
Objectives and attributes were decided by the dam and watershed requirements, value judgments of decision makers, quantified trade-offs between different attribute values, and technical...
Support the Complex
A computerized decision support system (DSS) can help manage the uncertainties of a complex construction project. A construction DSS consists of two interlocking parts. First, it is a...
Allocating Public Funds: Morality and Constraints
The highway safety engineer is continually faced with the trade-off between expenditures for highway safety improvements and reductions in highway fatalities, injuries, and property damage...
Telling Reporters About Risk
Telling the media about environmental risk may be the least pleasant part of a decision maker's work, but it needn't be. Once you understand the media�what they...
Positioning for Success
A model, called the SuperPositioning Model, for successful management of engineering design firms is discussed which allows firms to be categorized within a matrix bounded by two primary...
Secretary of Interior v. California
The issue of whether Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) lease sales were subject to consistency review under section 307(c) (1) of the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) was the focus of litigation...
Ocean Dumping at Akutan: Impact of Policy on Decisions
The role of policy in management decisions is often overlooked by the general public during the decision-making process because of the public's greater interest in the environmental...
Decisionmaking for Dredggedg Material Management
Management of dredged material produced in coastal environments is greatly complicated by the presence of chemical contaminants in the material. The kinds and quantities of contaminants...
Management Responses to Technical Uncertainty
Recent attention to management and regulation of contaminated waste materials has served to heighten awareness of the role of technical uncertainty in regulatory decisionmaking. Two distinct,...
Engineers in Court
Engineers who like debating often serve as expert witnesses. Though many avoid forensic work because they find lawyers intimidating, some like the challenge of explaining engineering principles...
Modeling Permissive Movements in TRANSYT-7F
Traffic Network Study Tool (TRANSYT-7F) is one of the most widely used traffic flow analysis and traffic signal timing optimization models in the United States and elsewhere. Through 'Release...
A Decision Support System for Freeway Corridor Analysis
When the scope of a particular corridor study dictates the review and analysis of a relatively large number of road segments along major transportation corridors, the integration of roadway...
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