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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “": Infrastructure Asset Management"”.
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Resilience Through Infrastructure Asset Management Long-term Planning
Infrastructure systems worldwide face increasing threats from climate change, manifested in intensified and more frequent natural hazards such as flooding, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events. Effective long-term planning and resilience-building measures are crucial to mitigate these risks …
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Web-Based Platform for Force Main Infrastructure Asset Management
Asset management of force main infrastructure entails accurate prediction of the condition of the system to operate and maintain at the lowest overall costs. In this thesis report, guidelines for asset management of force main infrastructure is provided by synthesizing the trends observed in the …
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Risk and reliability-based maintenance for highway infrastructure asset management
… system. The availability and safety of highway infrastructure is a primary objective of an economy in other to provide a satisfactory level of service to road users and overcome the practical challenges from dissimilar highway assets. A large proportion of highway assets in Nigeria are …
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Human Inspection Variability in Infrastructure Asset Management: A Focus on HVAC Systems
Human inspection is a pivotal component of infrastructure asset management within a systems thinking approach to civil engineering. Skilled inspectors are tasked with the evaluation of various civil infrastructure components, conducting assessments of their conditions, identifying maintenance …
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Review of Transnet National Ports Marine Concrete Infrastructure Asset Management and Maintenance
… services, the ports' waterside / wet concrete assets are pivotal to the business as trade and travel are reliant on the availability of safe and well-maintained concrete assets. Transnet is a State-Owned Company (SOC), wholly owned by the Government of the Republic of South Africa and is the …
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A Decison Support System for Multi-Objective Multi-Asset Roadway Asset Management
The limited available budget along with old aging infrastructure in nation magnifies the role of strategic decision making for maintenance of infrastructure. The challenging objective is to maintain the infrastructure asset systems in a state of good repair and to improve the efficiency and …
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Development of a Performance Index for Stormwater Pipeline Infrastructure
… the failure of stormwater pipelines, stormwater infrastructure asset management is becoming increasingly important in the U.S. An essential aspect of asset management practice is the accurate performance assessment of one's assets. This paper presents a weighted factor framework to determine the …
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Methodology to Enhance the Reliability of Drinking Water Pipeline Performance Analysis
… future demands. Standard practice in pipeline infrastructure asset management is to collect data and predict the condition of pipelines using models and tools. Water utilities want to be proactive in fixing or replacing the pipes as fixing-when-it-fails ideology leads to increased cost and can …
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A Framework for Digital Twins as Decision-Support Tools in South African Toll Road Operations
… Twins (DTs) to enhance decision-making for road infrastructure asset management, with a particular focus on South African toll roads. Despite growing global interest in DTs, their practical implementation in road infrastructure remains fragmented, hindered by inconsistent definitions, data silos, …
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Condition Assessment, Indices, and Risk-based Decision-making for Public School Infrastructure Management
… and managing asbestos containing material assets. In addition, the manufacturing of lead based paint (LBP) was banned over thirty years ago yet public schools continue to have to manage LBP assets with no guidelines specific to public schools. When compared to current civil infrastructure …
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Contemporary Network Theory: Concepts and Implications for Transportation Asset Management
… a novel working paradigm for transportation infrastructure asset management by viewing the transportation networks as key components (or nodes) of a broader network of resources, which includes infrastructure linked with society's ecological, social, and economic systems. An extensive review …
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Development of Protocols and Methods for Predicting the Remaining Economic Life of Wastewater Pipe Infrastructure Assets
… the remaining service life of pipelines. Sound infrastructure deterioration models are essential for accurately predicting future performance that, in turn, are critical tools for efficient maintenance, repair and rehabilitation decision making. The objective of this research is to develop a …
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A PROJECT-LEVEL INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE ROADWAYS
<p>Over the past two decades, roadway infrastructure in the United States has experienced severe deterioration, costing road users billions of dollars in wasted fuels, lost time, and higher numbers of accidents. Transportation infrastructure asset management initiatives, which aim at providing and …
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Concession analysis for highway infrastructure projects financed as public-private partnerships
… to the improvement and maintenance of highway infrastructure have reached the limits due to a rapid rate of socioeconomic growth and deterioration in infrastructure system performance. A public-private partnership (PPP) concessions a contractual and project financing mechanism that helps public …
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City-scale eco-routing and pavement eco-maintenance scheduling for CO2 mitigation
… reduction challenge. Within the subdivisions of infrastructure management and traffic management, different carbon mitigation approaches have been discussed to contribute to a greener transportation system. However, given the complex interactions that exist between the road users and the …
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A Building Information Modeling (BIM)-centric Digital Ecosystem for Smart Airport Life Cycle Management
<p>An increasing number of new airport infrastructure construction and improvement projects are being delivered in today's modern world. However, value creation is a recurring issue due to inefficiencies in managing capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx), while trying to …
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A Building Information Modeling (bim)-centric Digital Ecosystem For Smart Airport Life Cycle Management
<p>An increasing number of new airport infrastructure construction and improvement projects are being delivered in today’s modern world. However, value creation is a recurring issue due to inefficiencies in managing capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx), while trying to …
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Risk-based Renewal Prioritization Models (RPM) for Potable Water Pipeline Infrastructure Systems
Water pipelines are critical infrastructure assets buried across the United States, responsible for delivering safe drinking water at adequate pressures from source to customers. A majority of these pipelines were installed in the mid-twentieth century without adequate financial planning for future …