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Marginal Cost Techniques for Reservoir Optimization
Selection of the optimum water supply reservoir from multiple reservoir sites under consideration in a water resource planning study for the Houston Metroplex evaluated hydrology, engineering,...

A Comparison of Two Reservoir Projects and Associated Fisheries Impacts
The evaluation of environmental impacts is a critical component of reservoir project development. Impacts to fisheries are especially significant because of the extensive alteration to...

Benefits from Floodplain Management Activities in Relation to Operating South Holston Dam
Floodplain management activities have primarily been directed toward avoiding floodplain siting where practical; where siting is unavoidable, elevating structures, facilities, or equipment...

Review of the Design, Construction, and Operation of the Lake Carolyn Flood Control Pump Station
A review of the design, construction, and initial operation of the Lake Carolyn Flood Control Pump Station in Irving, Texas is presented. Staged water resource development design concepts...

Buried Treasure
Kelly describes landfill mining feasibility studies at two New England communities. Recently, due to rising landfill closure costs, a concept of landfill mining has been tested and shown...

Oilcrete
Threatened by probable tightening of hazardous-waste legislation, oil companies are searching for ways to dispose of or stabilize oil-drilling byproducts. One way is cementitious stabilization...

Winning the Word War
Holmstedt offers 11 tips for writing better engineering reports. Most engineering firms have developed stylebooks that answer most common grammatical questions and that provide formats...

Application of Interactive Videodisc for Work Zone Traffic Control Training
This paper describes the development of the Interactive Videodisc Training (IVT) system and a training course on work zone traffic control. The IVT system uses a microcomputer-controlled...

Choosing Display Hardware for Transportation Planning Packages
This paper reviews the popular transportation planning software packages on the market and their graphics capabilities. Hardware options that allow the user tp achieve high resolution...

A Graphical Database for Transportation Systems
A graphical database composed of programmable objects analogous to elements of a physical plant of a transportation network is presented. The discussion reviews the application of a graphical...

Validation of a Traffic Modeling System for Detour Planning
The Downtown Seattle Transit Project (DSTP) was initiated as an effort to relieve existing traffic congestion in downtown Seattle. It consists primarily of a 1.3-mile electric-bus tunnel...

Using Microcomputers for Project Management
Microcomputers for both project scheduling and cost control were used during design and construction on a major project in Honolulu. Hotel Street Mall, located in the heart of Honolulu's...

Sons of Martha: Civil Engineering Readings in Modern Literature
These three stories excerpted from the new book Sons of Martha, compiled by Augustine J. Fredrich and published by ASCE as the first book in a new venture by the Publications Division, introduce the engineer...

Florida Bridges Beat the Clock
Today, when budget overruns and delays on construction projects are the rule more than the exception, 11 precast segmental balanced cantilever bridges on two contracts were recently completed...

On the Drawing Board
Reliable and quantitative nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods for construction materials of wood, concrete, masonry and structural steel are needed. NSF program director John Scalzi...

Slips Ahoy
Klancnik discusses the markets for marina construction in the 1990s. The past decade saw a boom in the boating industry and in the design and construction of marinas. The market will remain...

Motivation: Harnessing the Private Sector's Interest in the Public Agency Project
Today's public works projects are being conceived, planned, and constructed with increasing difficulty as funding becomes more illusive. The Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority...

Financing Arrangements for the Medway Crossing
This paper is concerned with the arrangements currently being planned to finance and construct a 510 metre long immersed tube road tunnel in the County of Kent in the UK. A novel arrangement...

Creating the Proper Environment: The Consultant's Role in the Privatization of Public Transportation Projects
The consultant can provide input for the development of political consensus for individual projects by providing technical support, accurate costs, realistic schedules, and experience...

The Las Colinas Area Personal Transit System: A Public/Private Partnership
This paper presents an overview of the development of the Las Colinas Area Personal Transit (APT) System, identifying the key aspects of the APT Project related to a public/private partnership....

 

 

 

 

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