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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Infrastructure Assets"”.
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Optimizing the maintenance planning of infrastructure assets
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Geospatial Assessment of Sustainable Built Infrastructure Assets and Flood Disaster Protection
… was initiated with a review and synthesis of infrastructure related to city and urban growth, built infrastructure to meet transportation needs and travel demand, and role of mass transit in reducing adverse impacts on the environment and greenhouse gas emissions. Floods are the most …
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Exploring the benefits of a risk based approach to the management and resilience of infrastructure assets.
… and management of resilient civil engineering infrastructure. <br/><br/>It is recognised that the fast developing discipline of asset management, with its adoption of ILS tools as one of a variety of techniques likely to be useful in enhancing the resilience of assets to service level failures, …
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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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Effect of Web-based engineering information on asset management
For decades, infrastructure in the United States has been developed with little or no regard to the long-term cost of its maintenance and operation. As of June 1999, state and local governments in the United States are subject to new accounting measures contained in the Governmental Accounting …
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Structure finance for hybrid infrastructure models : the application of project finance into public-private partnerships for the construction and operation of infrastructure
… method for the construction and operation of infrastructure projects such as motorways, airports, power plants, pipelines, wastewater/sewage plants, dams, landline or cellular networks, and natural resources mines. These are large-scale, complex, and capital-intensive engineering systems, …
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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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Measuring the capacity of a port system : a case study on a Southeast Asian port
… and trade routes change, investment in port infrastructure is essential to maintain the necessary capacity for an efficiently functioning port system and to meet expected demand for all types of cargo. However, these largescale, expensive investments in long-term infrastructure assets must be …
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Valuing flexibility in infrastructure developments : the Bogota water supply expansion plan.
… of capital budgeting techniques for infrastructure developments. In particular, it analyzes: Net Present Value (NPV), Decision Analysis (DA) and Real Options Analysis (ROA), and compares these approaches in terms of their treatment of uncertainty, their acknowledgement of flexibility, …
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Identifying best practices in public-private partnerships in renewable energy
… as a means to develop physical and social infrastructure assets in developing countries. PPPs enable governments to attract private sector investment in public infrastructure services, which would supplement public resources or release them for other public needs. They also allow …
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Understanding the effects of changes in banking regulations on infrastructure financing in South Africa
… impacted commercial banks' appetite for infrastructure financing. It also aims to determine whether the reforms increased infrastructure debt pricing for borrowers, drove up related costs borne by the banks, and whether they were implemented by the local regulator, the Prudential …
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A framework for assessing and improving quality of data from visual evaluation of asset conditions
Investments in transportation infrastructure assets are among the largest investments made by governmental agencies. Besides requiring a large investment for design and construction, transportation infrastructure also requires a significant amount of resources and effort for performing maintenance …
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A stochastic multi-criteria assessment of security of transportation assets
… The project impacts in terms of enhancing the infrastructure resilience or mitigating the consequences of infrastructure damage in the event of disaster occurrence are rarely considered in project evaluation. This dissertation presents a methodology to address this issue so that in evaluating …
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Municipal infrastructure grant and service delivery in Theewaterskloof and Overstrand Municipalities
… of misuse and underspending of the municipal infrastructure grant (MIG) by South African municipalities is an increasing concern. Such incidents lead to continuing problems of failure to eradicate infrastructure backlogs and to the poor provision of service delivery by the municipalities. The …
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Dynamic Analysis of Levee Infrastructure Failure Risk: A Framework for Enhanced Critical Infrastructure Management
Current models that assess infrastructure failure risk are "linear," and therefore, only consider the direct influence attributed to each factor that defines risk. These models do not consider the undeniable relationships that exist among these parameters. In reality, factors that define risk are …
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Efficient management of environmental control within electrical substations for decarbonisation purposes
… substations. Electrical substations are critical infrastructure assets that house distribution equipment enabling electricity to reach customers’ homes and business premises. To reduce the risk of damage to distribution equipment environmental, control is required to maintain specific levels of …
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Capturing environmental innovation through industrial cluster programs in the United States
… importance of geographic concentration and infrastructure inputs to the economic rationale behind clustering, processes of spatial planning and urban development have generally received limited attention in the study of cluster programs. In these two cases, I trace how abstract visions of …
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Contracts, not concrete : de-risking private finance of sustainable infrastructure in emerging markets
Matching long-term infrastructure demands in emerging markets with long-dated capital supply - from pension funds, insurers or sovereign wealth funds - has never been so high on the agenda of governments, climate funds and multilateral development banks. It has been argued that with the right …
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Guidelines for Implementing Risk-Based Asset Management Program to Effectively Manage Deterioration of Aging Drinking Water Pipelines, Valves and Hydrants
… need to manage our deteriorating water infrastructure systems effectively to mitigate the enormous consequences of their premature failure such as loss of service, money, time, damage to other infrastructure, and damage to property. Most of the water utilities understand this need and …
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Structural health monitoring of inland navigation infrastructure
… inland navigation system in the U.S. is a civil infrastructure network that relies on the performance of a vast array of infrastructure assets scattered across the nation to function successfully. The system is critical to the U.S. economy, allowing the transportation of billions of dollars in …
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