Automated Data Collection for O'Hare Airport
The Chicago O'Hare International Airport (O'Hare) is one of the busiest facilities in the world. Operating at near capacity, the airport provides a critical link in the United States'...
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...
Information Technology for Infrastructure Management
A database management system is component of an information system which is a component of information technology. THis paper demonstrates the enormity of information technology by introducing...
Cost-Benefit Evaluation of Network Level Pavement Management
This paper presents a cost-benefit analysis prepared for senior management. It uses the Alberta pavement management system as the primary case, and the Arizona PMS system as the second...
Effective Use of Statistical Analysis for Data Collection and Model Development
Infrastructure managers require enormous amount of data for their planning, design, and construction operations. Often the emphasis on quality of data collection, analysis, and interpretation...
Economic Paradigms for Infrastructure Management
A key characteristic which has emerged in infrastructure management system is the use of economic models at the network level (as opposed to project level) to help in evaluating program...
Applying PMS Lessons to New Infrastructure Tools
The objective of this paper is to present a historical summary of the factors which have influenced the successful implementation of pavement management system (PMS) for the lessons learned...
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,...
Tunnel Repairs Under Traffic and Community Impacts
Maintaining and rehabilitating the nations existing urban infrastructure is vital for the long term economic health of the cities in which the facilities are located. Successful rehabilitation...
Infrastructure Management System: A Novel Approach
Traditional techniques of recording field data, and evaluation usually result in voluminous paper work. To streamline this operation, Sverdrup pioneered the use of an innovative CADD-Graphics...
Automating Inventory and Assessment of Infrastructure
Due to the large amount of information required to describe the components of infrastructure, automated tools are required to speed data collection and access to this information. This...
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...
Modeling the Traffic Flow Impacts of Rehabilitation Activity on Two-Lane Highways
Researchers at the Purdue University have been involved in developing techniques for predicting the operational impacts created by one-way traffic control. These techniques estimate average...
Tie Model: A Crosstie Replacement Planning and Costing Model
The Tie Model described in this paper is a maintenance planning and life-cycle costing model for wood crossties. The model includes a number of different failure modules to predict crosstie...
A Pavement Management System for Port Orange
The city of Port Orange, Florida, with a population of approximately 35,000, initiated an investigation to develop a simple yet comprehensive pavement management system for their 143-mile...
Neural Network System for Automated Highway Pavement Inspection
A multi-layer perceptron back propagation neural network based methodology has been developed to process and analyze moire fringes obtained with an automated highway pavement inspection...
Infrastructure Management Using Geographic Information Systems
Before transportation professionals promote (Geographic Information System) GIS as the answer to infrastructure management, more debate is required. Current GIS packages do not have the...
GIS-Based Applications for Rail Infrastructure Analyses
Computer modeling and analysis techniques are important tools being used to evaluate impacts associated with transporting high-level radioactive waste to the proposed national repository...
AM or GIS for Managing Infrastructure
The two approaches to managing infrastructure are discussed in this paper: Automated Mapping (AM) and Geographic Information System (GIS) It is very important to recognize their similarities...
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