Uncertainty in Infrastructure Management
The difference between committed costs and actual expenditure is a margin of control in project management. By using a measure of uncertainty we construct a cost-risk evaluation framework...
Projecting Land Use/Transportation Interactions
The inherent uncertainty in forecasting the interaction between transportation capacity and induced development has resulted in insufficient analysis of this dynamic in the transportation...
Planning for Electronic Toll Collection
With major plans for toll plaza expansion to accommodate growing patronage, the Florida Turnpike had to consider options for reducing future right-of-way acquisition and still provide...
Implications of Uncertainty in Transportation Control Measures: A Case Study of the Los Angeles Truck Management Program
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation has proposed a peak period travel restriction aimed at heavy-duty trucks on all Los Angeles streets. The ordinance is designed to reduce the...
Case Study of Electronic Toll Collection in the Central Artery/Tunnel Project?Boston
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issues involved in incorporating new technology, specifically electronic toll collection into a large, long-term construction project. The paper...
Use of Fuzzy Theory for Dealing with Uncertainty: Evaluating Alternatives Under Uncertainty
A method to deal with uncertainty which is associated with vagueness and ambiguity is presented. Fuzzy sets are introduced to account for vagueness in expression and fuzzy measure is introduced...
Evaluation of HSGT Systems Under Uncertainty
The basic themes of this paper are two-fold. First we investigate what planning style is likely to be most suited for planning an HSGT system, dependent on three interdependent key variables:...
Calculating Erosion Rates: Using Long-Term Data to Increase Data Confidence
Computer cartographic techniques were used to produce historical shoreline change maps for two study areas: (1) an eight kilometer section of Calvert County, Maryland; and (2) an eight...
Variance Estimation of Extreme Flows
The inclusion of historic flood data with gage record data has been shown to reduce the uncertainty in flow estimates. Using numerical integration to quantify that uncertainty is less...
Evaluation of Hydraulic Structure Reliability Considering Uncertainties in Hydrologic Models
Uncertainties in a hydrologic model give rise to uncertainty in model outputs which, in turn, can be used for reliability-based design and /or evaluation of hydraulic structures. This...
Analyzing Uncertainty of IUH of Nash
Uncertainties in hydrologic modeling are the primary factors affecting the reliability of hydraulic structures. Among various hydrologic rainfall-runoff models for engineering applications,...
Importance of Hydraulic-Model Uncertainty in Flood-Stage Estimation
The delineation of the regulatory floodplain and determination of the respective flood stage is subject to hydraulic-model uncertainty in transforming the design discharge into a flood...
Uncertainty of Bridge Scour Estimates
Pier scour is the erosion of a streambed in the vicinity of bridge pier foundations. In this paper, fuzzy regression is used to develop two pier scour models, one based on crisp laboratory...
Uncertainty Analysis of the FEMA Method for Alluvial Fans
Distributary flow areas such as alluvial fans, bajadas, and alluvial slopes, and alluvial plains along mountain bases pose quite different and interesting problems for the design of hydraulic...
Risk and Uncertainty in Flood Damage Reduction Project Design
The recent emphasis on partnership between the Federal government and local sponsors in the development of flood damage reduction projects has promoted considerable interest in the application...
Variability in Solutions of Constrained Optimization Problems: Ocean Outfall Design Case
Uncertainty in optimization model resulting from parameter uncertainty has not been well studied in the hydraulics and water resources areas. To make valid decisions, knowledge of the...
Pipeline Leak Detection Based on Mass Balance
Current technologies in Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems enable pipeline leak detection to be carried out in real time by software-based methods. This paper discusses...
Probabilistic Assessment of Composite Structures
Formal procedures are described which are used to computationally simulate the probabilistic behavior of composite structures. The computational simulation starts with the uncertainties...
Phased Assembly of a European Space Station
This paper discusses a phased assembly approach for a proposed European Space Station utilising a series of constructional payloads that are delivered to orbit in an established sequence...
Intersection Air Quality Analysis
Methods of carbon monoxide concentration estimation at or near intersections have recently undergone scrutiny with resulting debate on the proper and accurate ways to make these estimates...
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