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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Highway Infrastructure"”.
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Principles of economic efficiency applied to highway infrastructure problems
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1984.
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AI-POWERED DIGITAL TWIN MODELING USING LARGE HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE DATASETS
… twin framework to address challenges in civil infrastructure management, which focuses on three applications: slope stability risk monitoring, moving train-induced ground vibration analysis, and pavement strength evaluation. By Leveraging machine learning (ML) and finite element modeling (FEM), …
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Risk and reliability-based maintenance for highway infrastructure asset management
The highway industry, a critical section of Nigeria surface transportation industry is in pressing need of methods that would enable the reliability and maintainability of their fielded system. The availability and safety of highway infrastructure is a primary objective of an economy in other to …
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Improving Highway Infrastructure Management Practices Using GIS and Optimization Techniques
… developed in this study for the management of highway assets was proved to provide higher overall performance of transportation infrastructure and is beneficial for highway agencies and users. It also minimizes disruption to normal traffic flow caused by rehabilitation and reconstruction …
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Highway cyclaplex : re-appropriating spaces of highway infrastructure for transit
A freeway interchange plays a much more significant role in a city than simply permitting the movement of automobiles from one direction to another. As they carve their way through urban centers, interchanges divide communities from one another and create lasting boundaries between neighborhoods. …
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Stimulating Nevada's Highway Infrastructure and the Use of Debt Financing Instruments
This paper assesses Nevada's Highway Infrastructure and the role of financial instruments in developing Nevada's Highway Infrastructure. As Americas' single greatest asset necessary for every aspect of the U.S. economy infrastructure provides a new standard to that allows resources for the future. …
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Concession analysis for highway infrastructure projects financed as public-private partnerships
… allocated 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 …
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Building a sustainability assessment model for highway infrastructure projects in Yunnan, China
Highway infrastructure development in Yunnan Province remains a top priority for the Chinese Government, the aim is to improve access to neighbouring countries and support economic growth and social development in the province. While the social and economic benefits of highway infrastructure …
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Developing a guideline and feasibility tool for highway infrastructure readiness for autonomous vehicles
… technologies that is being developed, and infrastructure modifications supporting AVs will be the next major research that is needed. A systematic literature review methodology is used to explore key parameters needed for implementation of AVs. The key parameters are analyzed against …
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Effects of alignment on CO2 emissions from the construction and use phases of highway infrastructure
… involves understanding the carbon impact of an infrastructure project from its beginning, through its serviceable life, to the end of its life. The WLC concept can be applied to future infrastructure projects to assist in decision making, to ensure the correct project is taken forward in terms …
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Spatial analysis of passenger vehicle use and ownership and its impact on the sustainability of highway infrastructure funding
… the United States, the sustainability of highway funding is at risk due to increasing need and uncertainty in the factors that drive revenue. Past studies on highway funding sustainability have identified that the root cause of changing highway revenue are the shifts in social demographics …
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Overweight Vehicle Permitting Alternatives
… vehicle weights were established to preserve the highway infrastructure. Past research has shown that overweight operations, while causing significant damage to roads and bridges, can enhance the trucking industry productivity, and thus yield economic benefits both regionally and nationally. In …
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Combating Budgetary Complications from the Marcellus Shale: The Case for a Pennsylvania Gas Fund
… provided a case study for assessing per-well highway infrastructure damage and water usage. The creation of a predictive model based upon the Barnett was applied to the Marcellus formation. The results showed support for the hypothesis that shale gas development creates negative externalities …
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Developing a sustainability rating framework and indicator decision sub-logic for highway design and construction sector in Nigeria.
Highway infrastructure development projects improve living standards across communities and cities, and increase the economic growth and societal expectations of a country. Due to anthropogenic activities, the use of sustainability strategies is encouraged for highway infrastructure development. …
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A systems approach to transportation infrastructure management: development of a Highway Management System for the Virginia DOT
… about the decline in the U.S. transportation infrastructure for the last two decades, the infrastructure's service condition remains barely above current requirements, and is insufficient to meet future demands of growth and economic development. This deterioration and obsolescence primarily …
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Private sector's roles in application of private finance initiative to highway development in Japan
The highway development program in Japan is currently at an important transition point. Necessary policy reforms, triggered by the public's increasing and intensifying criticisms, are under discussion. These criticisms are generally concerned with the financial difficulties in the program. Along …
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Correlation Of Acoustic Emission Parameters With Weight And Velocity Of Moving Vehicles
… is essential for management of freight traffic, highway infrastructure design and maintenance, and monitoring of heavy weight vehicles. The research work presents a methodology for correlating the weight of a moving vehicle with acoustic emission parameters (such as counts and energy). …
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Between Fields and Cities: The Politics of Land Use Changes in Punjab, India
… The study will focus on both transportation infrastructure and the real estate developments surrounding it, as a way of situating Punjab within a larger discourse on infrastructure and urbanization in the Global South. Through the case studies of three Punjabi cities: Mohali, Bathinda, and …
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Geospatial Framework for the Use of Natural Resource Extraction in Public Private Partnerships
… for the maintenance and expansion of existing highway infrastructure are scarce. Public Private Partnerships (PPP) are feasible solutions to the concern of lagging investment. PPP are increasingly used for the procurement of services and goods, because of their flexibility and ability to …
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The role of public private partnership in highwayinfrastructure development and sustainability in Nigeria
The Nigeria's highway infrastructure are currently being procured and maintained usingthe traditional Design, Bid Build (DBB) method. The procurement method and fundingmechanism appeared not to have produced the desired result of timely and cost effectiveproject outcome nor good quality and …
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