The Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Beams Manufactured with Side Profile Sheets
The paper describes in qualitative terms the fundamental principles that control the behaviour of a completely new form of construction in which reinforced concrete beams are constructed...
Concrete Pipe for Sanitary Sewers Corrosion Protection Update
Significant advances have been made in the last decade in the area of sanitary sewer design techniques. Some of the most important advances have been in the prediction and prevention of...
Structural Design on Ductile Iron Pipe
The thickness class designation for Ductile Iron pipe has been changed to a pressure class designation in the 1991 revision of the C150/A21.50 ANSI standard. However, the same conservative...
Estimation of Reliability Parameters for Rehabilitation of Pipelines
This paper presents fundamental principles of estimating statistical characteristics of the elements of urban underground infrastructure networks, which provides a basis of statistical...
Evaluation of a Proprietary Tape Coating Alternative for the 157 Mile Ivie Pipeline
A two part evaluation of alternative protective coating systems for the 157 mile Ivie pipeline was made. In Part I, an evaluation was made on the suitability of a proprietary tape coating...
Gas Pipeline Fitness-for-Service Investigation
A delta reclamation district's plan to add significant fill on their levee caused great concern for the integrity of a critical PG&E 22-inch (559 mm) gas transmission line which...
Analysis and Design of Direct Burial Sections of San Diego County Water Authority's Pipeline 4 Extension
The pipeline 4 extension is one of the San Diego County Water Authority's Phase I projects that will run for about 13 miles. Majority of this new pipeline will be 96 inch in steel and...
The Design and Development of A Road/Rail Power Unit
The road/rail power unit was designed and developed by Saskatchewan Highways and Transportation to provide low cost motive power on low-density disconnected rail lines. The power unit...
Washington State Pavement Management System
This paper provides a brief overview of the Washington State Pavement management System....
PMS Implementation: Guidelines and Lessons Learned
Pavement management has emerged throughout the 1980s as an accepted tool to assist engineers in planning their pavement rehabilitation needs. Boosted by the support of the Federal Government...
Application of Leading Edge PMS Techniques in India
In India there is a pressing need for an efficient system to plan highway rehabilitation and maintenance. A two year project has started in March 1993 to develop a Pavement Management...
Canadian Pavement Management Systems
A large portion of the investment in Canada's road system is in pavement structures. In the 1960's a coordinated national effort toward protecting the investment, through good pavement...
Compare: Hampton Roads Congestion Management Program
COMPARE is an acronym given to a traffic congestion management program that has been formulated through the cooperative efforts of all the major Cities and Transportation Agencies in the...
Trip Rates Adjustments for Impact Assessment and Congestion Management
Evidence that all urban trips are not equal and that trip rates need to be adjusted to reflect the differential contribution of trips to traffic loads and congestion is presented. Adjustments...
Field Testing of Advanced Maintenance Data Acquisition Technologies in Three State DOTs
Field testing and evaluation of advanced data acquisition technology in Maryland, Connecticut and Arizona showed the potential for state highway agencies to improve existing procedures...
BMS Modelling of Bridge Stock Performance
A computer-based Bridge Management System, BMS, was designed in Finland by the Finnish National Road Administration (FinnRA) to assist in high level bridge policy, long-term planning and...
Level of Service in Bridge Management Systems
The Federal Highway Administration's Sufficiency Rating is not adequate for evaluating bridges. It ignores fundamental bridge characteristics and is far too subjective. The Level of Service...
Congestion Pricing with Tolls and Subsidies
Though economists have promoted congestion pricing for many years it has, in general, met with public opposition. It is usually argued that congestion pricing is unfair, discriminatory,...
Congestion Management: Right Price
Congested city centers have become a nightmare of traffic planners. They propose a variety of measures to overcome the problem: more funds to road construction, tighter parking controls,...
Bridge Management System Implemented in Thailand
The latest ten years' economic growth in Thailand and the associated increase in roadway and railway traffic has exposed the existing bridge structures as bottlenecks of these transportation...
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