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Showing 1 to 20 of 169 for “"Transportation Infrastructure"”.
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Private finance of transportation infrastructure
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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High-volume recycled materials for sustainable transportation infrastructure
… made with high-volume of recycled materials in transportation infrastructure. The main focus was to develop mixtures for rigid pavement construction. A variety of fine and coarse recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) were investigated. The feasibility of replacing 50% of Portland cement with …
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Socioeconomic Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure at Different Spatial Scales
Inducing economic growth through appropriate transportation investments and policies and simultaneously focusing on reducing income disparities and equitably distributing the benefits of transportation improvements is a challenge researchers and policymakers currently face. Despite the considerable …
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Dynamic strategic planning for transportation infrastructure investment in Japan
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Technology and Policy Program, 1999.
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Private development of transportation infrastructure : assessing feasibility, risks, and financial strategies
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Aligning Public-Private Partnership Contracts with Public Objectives for Transportation Infrastructure
… with thoughts on the appropriate role of PPPs in infrastructure delivery.
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Assessing the rise of Design-Build-Finance Delivery in Transportation Infrastructure
… investigated the use of DBF for the delivery of transportation infrastructure by five State DOTs: Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan and Texas through a combination of interviews with DOT personnel and investigation of completed or on-going DBF projects. To complement this, subject matter …
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Outsourcing transportation infrastructure maintenance : a theoretical approach with application to JR East
In transportation agencies, how to reduce maintenance and operation cost is one of the biggest and most common concerns, because their revenue is not expected to increase drastically in the future. One of the solutions undertaken nowadays is contracting out and utilizing contractors' efficiency for …
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Soft Computing-based Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Tools for Transportation Infrastructure Management
… financial and human resources, and increased infrastructure deterioration have made the task of maintaining the infrastructure systems more challenging than ever before. Life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) is an important tool for transportation infrastructure management, which is used extensively …
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Development of Ground Penetrating Radar Signal Modeling and Implementation for Transportation Infrastructure
… 20 years for a variety of applications to assess transportation infrastructure. However, the main issue after all these years remains: "How well does GPR work and under what conditions?" Results show that GPR works well for some situations, but is not an appropriate tool for other situations. It …
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The geography of strategy : an exploration of alternative frameworks for transportation infrastructure strategy development
… notion of a strategy development framework for transportation infrastructure systems. A strategy development framework has several dimensions: the organizations that own.infrastructure, the ownership structure employed, the type and quantity of revenues generated, the revenue allocation methods …
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Resilience-based Operational Analytics of Transportation Infrastructure: A Data-driven Approach for Smart Cities
… impact of extreme events and disturbances on the transportation system, for high-probability low impact (HPLI) events to (a) provide a performance assessment framework for transportation systems' response to traffic congestions, (b) investigate the role of transit modes in the resilience of urban …
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Integrating social and environmental impacts of green transportation infrastructure : a framework for effective decision-making
Green Infrastructure (GI) gains recognition as a viable alternative to traditional infrastructure due to its economic, environmental, and social benefits. However, quantifying and monetizing GI's social and environmental impacts pose challenges, leading to their neglect in comparative evaluations. …
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Project identification and evaluation techniques for transportation infrastructure : assessing their role in metropolitan areas of developing countries
Project identification and evaluation of transportation infrastructure play a vital role in shaping and sustaining the forms of cities all over the world. These cities differ substantially in character and urban form and have different transport systems and transport related problems. Most large …
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Logistical and transportation infrastructure in Asia : potential for growth and development to support increasing trade with Europe
… trade between Europe and Asia for the existing transportation network and logistical infrastructure. In general terms, technologies need to improve and be compatible with each other, multimodalism and interconnectivity of the various modes needs to be fully implemented, capacities have to grow, …
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A systems approach to transportation infrastructure management: development of a Highway Management System for the Virginia DOT
… have been warnings 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 …
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Geospatial Analysis of the Global Supply Chain and Transportation Infrastructure Considering Extreme Weather, Climate, and Sustainable Energy Policies
… costs for road and freight rail. The costs of transportation are a major factor in the ultimate price of consumer goods and thus must be minimized in the transportation process. Increasing the rail modeshare from 20% to 40% reduced the costs of transport by 25.4%. Emissions were also reduced, …
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Increased private involvement in the delivery of transportation infrastructure : the state-of-the-art in transit system turnkey contracts
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Transportation infrastructure impacts on house prices and firms location: the effect of a new metro line in suburbs of Madrid
ABSTRACT Transportation infrastructure, is known to impact urban areas in a number of significant ways. Those effects may be classified as: transportation-related effects, land-use effects and effects on jobs and business activities. Commuter rail and metro stations can have both positive and …
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Weaving together the threads of transportation infrastructure : an intermodal transportation station for the proposed MBTA urban ring, Sullivan Square Station, Boston
Transportation infrastructure in all its manifestations represents a huge capital investment expended during the evolution of a city and is perhaps the most visible character defining weave of any urban fabric. This weave, the interrelationship of circulation space with the spatial boundaries of …
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