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...
Implementation of a District Level Highway Routine Maintenance Needs Assessment Program
A routine highway maintenance needs assessment program allows a transportation agency to establish a maintenance work program consistent with the objectives of a pavement maintenance management...
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...
Congestion Management?Opportunities for States and MPOs to Ensure the Efficiency of Their Highway Systems
The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA) and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) are effecting change in multimodal transportation decision making....
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,...
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...
Airfield Pavement Management System
This paper describes a comprehensive Pavement Management System (PMS implemented at 24 airports in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The PMS development and implementation was completed in...
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...
Traffic Signal Management Utilizing Fiber Optic Cable
Fiber optic cable technology has progressed from the pioneer stage and is becoming a widely accepted method of data transmission. Utilization for traffic signal systems, however, is not...
Automated Generation of NBI Reporting Fields from Pontis BMS Database
Methods to generate National Bridge Inventory (NBI) condition ratings for deck (Field 58), superstructure(Field 59), substructure (Field 60) and culvert (Field 62) from the bridge database...
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...
User Identified Short-Term and Long-Term Needs for Pavement Management Innovation
A survey involving 300 practicing engineer's from all over the United States and representing 20 other countries was conducted, concerning ideas and opinions of the priority research needed...
Large Truck Impacts on the Highway Infrastructure: The Bridge Dimension
Recent U.S. studies have explored the productivity gains of longer combination vehicles (LCV's) and their impacts on highway infrastructure. The area least explored is LCV operations and...
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...
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