Seeing the Future: Changing Highway Engineering Practice Over the Next 10 Years
The computer age is here, and the more a highway engineer knows about computers, the better. This really symbolizes the direction highway engineers are headed - into a high-tech world...
Design Implications for Concrete Pavements from LTPP Analyses
Among the original objectives of the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) study of the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) were the evaluation of existing design methods for pavements,...
Managing Maintenance from a Business Viewpoint
Today's sophisticated maintenance management systems allow supervisors to plan, schedule, monitor and evaluate the maintenance function at a level and speed our predecessors heretofore...
Wetland Conservation Plans as Contexts for Transportation Planning
Construction of major, new roadways, particularly in metropolitan areas, initiates subsidiary affects that impact the environment in a variety of ways and increasingly over time. Not the...
The Pontis Bridge Management System
A committee of the Federal Highway Administration and six of the United States has completed a network-level bridge management system, called Pontis, to optimize budgets and programs for...
SNCF High-Speed Trains: 15 Years of Design, 13 TGV Generations
Less than ten years after the first high-speed revenue service, SNCF has just placed an order for a third generation of TGV rolling stock: the double-deck TGV. Between two generations,...
Real Time Public Transport Information Systems in
The objective of this work is to demonstrate the use of Advanced Transport Telematics (ATT) in a multimodal transport environment. The focus of the work is on the integration of ATT methods...
Issues in GIS-Based Subsurface Data Management
Obstacles and barriers preclude an interagency GIS application for managing spatially-related subsurface data. Such a system would enable geotechnical and earthquake engineers from state...
National Geotechnical Experimentation Sites?Central Data Repository
A central data repository is in the process of development for the recently-established system of U.S. geotechnical experimentation sites. Data which will be available for most of these...
The Application of 3 Dimensional Geographic Information Systems in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
The requirements and needs of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in geotechnical earthquake engineering are described, and the use of such system in New Zealand is discussed. We have...
Some Considerations for the Use of Geographic Information Systems
GIS have become widely used. Geotechnical earthquake engineers need both to understand what distinguishes a GIS form other data base systems and to make clear the purpose, use, and maintenance...
A Geotechnical/Earthquake Engineering Information System?Expanding the GIS Conceptual Framework
Data in a typical geotechnical and earthquake engineering study, encompass a variety of sources of information from site investigations, field instrumentation, dynamic computer simulations,...
Accuracy Requirements for GIS-Based Seismic Risk Assessments
Accurate assessments of potential earthquake damage and casualty risk are essential to the design of seismic hazard mitigation policies and seismically oriented engineering practice. More...
Earthquake Risk GIS Analysis for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is a small autonomous region in the eastern part of northwest China and below Inner Mongolia with an area of 66,400 square meters. Ningxia's population...
Infrastructure Damage Modeling with GIS
This paper describes the use of a geographic information system to model damage to a municipal water distribution system. In a demonstration application detailed attribute data on components...
Considerations in Integrating Geographic Information System Technology in Earthquake Hazard Analyses
Seismic hazard and risk analysis can play a major role in identifying the potential consequences of an earthquake. Recent advances in computer based Geographic Information systems provide...
GIS for Regional Seismic Hazard and Risk Analyses
Earthquake occurrences cannot be accurately predicted or prevented, but their damaging effects can be analyzed and possibly reduced by utilizing the available geologic and geographic information....
Geographic Information System Planning for Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering Applications at the Savannah River Site, SC
The Savannah River Technology Center (SRTC) of the Savannah River Site is in the planning stages of compiling a geological, geophysical, and seismological data base on an industry standard...
Liquefaction Analysis in a GIS Environment
Liquefaction has been identified as one of the seismic hazards that brings great damage to property and infrastructure, and loss of life. The need for liquefaction analysis that works...
Liquefaction Potential of Western Puerto Rico
The historical seismic record, paleoseismic evidence, high population density, time expired since the last major earthquake, and the presence of liquefiable sands and soft clays combine...
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