Maintenance and operation of infrastructure systems

M Sánchez-Silva, DM Frangopol, J Padgett… - Journal of Structural …, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
Infrastructure management plays an important role in sustainable development and is
essential for the evaluation of the socioeconomic feasibility of existing projects and the …

Incorporating network considerations into pavement management systems: A case for approximate dynamic programming

A Medury, S Madanat - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2013 - Elsevier
The objective of infrastructure management is to provide optimal maintenance, rehabilitation
and replacement (MR&R) policies for a system of facilities over a planning horizon. While …

Multi-objective optimization for sustainable road network maintenance under traffic equilibrium: Incorporating costs and environmental impacts

J Guan, X Yang, L You, L Ding, X Cheng - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
It is vital to consider traffic dynamics and environmental burdens when developing
sustainable long-term maintenance schedules for asphalt road networks. This paper …

Incorporating cost uncertainty and path dependence into treatment selection for pavement networks

F Guo, J Gregory, R Kirchain - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new probabilistic treatment path dependence (PTPD) model for
budget allocation within pavement network management problems. During the evaluation of …

An equilibrium approach for compensating public–private partnership concessionaires for reduced tolls during roadway maintenance

S Mamdoohi, E Miller-Hooks, J Gifford - Transportation Research Part A …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study considers the possibility of exploiting excess capacity along concurrent tolled
roadway facilities operating in a public–private partnership for the purpose of alleviating …

A reinforcement learning method for multiasset roadway improvement scheduling considering traffic impacts

W Zhou, E Miller-Hooks… - Journal of …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Maintaining roadway pavements and bridge decks is key to providing high levels of service
for road users. However, improvement actions incur downtime. These actions are typically …

The effect of long term non-invasive pavement deterioration on accident injury-severity rates: A seemingly unrelated and multivariate equations approach

MT Sarwar, PC Anastasopoulos - Analytic methods in accident research, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper seeks to measure the effect of long term non-invasive pavement deterioration on
accident injury-severity rates, and demonstrate the potential of considering safety as one of …

Scheduling short-term recovery activities to maximize transportation network resilience

X Zhang, E Miller-Hooks - Journal of Computing in Civil …, 2015 - ascelibrary.org
A stochastic, time-dependent integer program with recursive functions is proposed for the
problem of assessing a rail-based freight transportation system's resilience to disaster …

A bottom-up solution for the multi-facility optimal pavement resurfacing problem

N Sathaye, S Madanat - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2011 - Elsevier
Transportation infrastructure management has been a subject of growing economic
importance in recent years due to the magnitude of agency expenditures. Increasingly …

Simultaneous network optimization approach for pavement management systems

A Medury, S Madanat - Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2014 - ascelibrary.org
In the context of sequential decision making under uncertainty, the Markov decision process
(MDP) is a widely used mathematical framework. The MDP-based approaches in the …