Total Quality Management for Information Technology
Recently, there has been an increased awareness in the AEC firms toward Total Quality Management (TQM). Many AEC firms and the public sector started to look seriously at TQM. The reason...
Incorporating Weather Effects in Project Simulation
Planning of construction operations and projects must take into account weather conditions and the resulting impacts on the project schedule. Predetermination of weather and its resulting...
Simulating Paving Fleets with Non-Stationary Travel
Proper selection of equipment and fleet size can yield substantial savings in both time and cost. A simulation model of asphalt-paving operations is presented and impacts of non-stationary...
Use of Construction Simulation in Claims Analysis
The increasing complexity of today's construction projects has led to considerable progress in developing sophisticated simulation-based methods and tools for the analysis and planning...
The Design and Installation of a Distributed Controls System at the Bissell Point Wastewater Treatment Plant: A Case Study
The Bissell Point Wastewater Treatment Plant is undergoing a $210 million dollar change, which includes a new Distributed Controls System (DCS). The new DCS is being installed in phases...
Interference Detection with 3-D Computer Models
Interferences between building components during construction is an inherent byproduct of multiple disciplines designing their components separately. Manual solution techniques for detecting...
The California Smart Traveler 1993 Status Report
California's Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is teaming with public and private organizations in the research and development of Smart Traveler systems to provide operators, passengers...
Bellevue Smart Traveler: Phase 2
Traffic congestion in urban centers can be attributed to large numbers of workers traveling in single occupant vehicles to densely clustered downtown employment facilities. This project...
Evaluation Plan for AVL Implementations
The Federal Transit Administration, as part of the Advanced Public Transportation Systems program (a component of the Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems initiative), is conducting the...
Editing Existing Paper Drawings
In the last five years, developments in creating and managing engineering drawings completely, within a computer environment, have been phenomenal. Computer Aided Design continues to make...
Modular Software for Editing Paper Drawings
Revising, tracking and storing large format engineering drawings has always been an expensive and complex problem for large industries. The management problem became much more complex...
Your Paper Drawings in the World of Organized Information
A comprehensive discussion of available hybrid raster-vector techniques and tools is provided. The author uses a sample project to clarify the most common misjudgements that result from...
An Intelligent Interface for Construction Information
The paper describes the structure of a system being developed to make available a wide range of types of information to assist people in the construction industry. State-of-art search...
A Stochastic Cost Engineering System (SCENS) Applied to Estimating and Tendering for Bill of Quantities Contracts
In many countries, contracts based on bill of quantities are very common in construction industry. Although estimating and tendering are overwhelmed by uncertainties, the common practice...
Cycletime Simulation of Shield-Tunneling Operation
Computer simulation...
Graphical Resource-Based Object-Oriented Simulation for Construction Process Planning
Simulation is a powerful tool for construction process design and optimization. The results of a simulation provide detailed process information, such as resource utilization and idleness,...
Simulation Architecture for Advanced Traffic Management Systems
Trends in Intelligent Highway-Vehicle Systems (IVHS), specifically Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) technologies are directed toward better integration between intersection controller...
The Cal Poly ATMIS Traffic Operations Center Simulator
This paper describes the development of state-of-the-art traffic simulation software powerful enough to support a wide range of testbed experiments related to Advanced Traffic Management...
An Integrated System to Facilitate the Analysis of Construction Claims
In recent years, considerable attention has been directed towards the ascertaining the nature of disruptions in construction contracting. In practice, attempts are made to identify the...
Analytical Information Management Systems: Tools for Environmental Data Management
Management of environmental data is currently fragmented among laboratory information management systems, regulatory reporting systems, geographic information systems, and other systems....
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