Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure: Susannah Kerr Adler, Margaret Cederoth, Katherine Henderson, and Scott Snelling, Parsons Brinckerhoff

Author(s):  
Mohammadsaied Dehghanisanij ◽  
Gerardo W. Flintsch ◽  
Jack Verhoeven

Transportation infrastructure engineers and managers have realized the importance of appropriate performance assessment and its impact on overall infrastructure performance and condition. The need for robust, comprehensive, and informative performance measures requires further research and study. Recently, the Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure at the Transportation Institute of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University proposed a flexible framework to aggregate condition measures for different highway infrastructure assets and to translate the measures into corridor health indicators. Health indicators for one asset are aggregated into an associated asset health rating, and all asset health ratings are combined into a corridor health rating. This paper modifies this framework to develop a robust performance assessment method that can be used to determine the impact of investment decisions on various dimensions of performance at the corridor level. Instead of aggregating health indicators of an asset into one asset health rating, the method proposes aggregating similar health indicators of different assets into the associated corridor health indicators to develop corridor performance measures. The application of the methodology on a segment of Interstate 81 suggests that the modified approach enables consistent monitoring of different health indicators at the corridor level. The corridor indicators are homogeneous (combined from similar health indicators of different assets). The practicality of the approach is illustrated through its application in a resource allocation example. The results show that decision makers can use the framework as a guideline to allocate resources across different highway assets.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 463-471
Author(s):  
Omar Isaac Asensio ◽  
Kevin Alvarez ◽  
Arielle Dror ◽  
Emerson Wenzel ◽  
Catharina Hollauer ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 04017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Putu Alit Suthanaya

Denpasar city is the capital of Bali Province and has been developed into a metropolitan city. There has been an agglomeration of four regencies, namely Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan forming a Metropolitan Sarbagita area with a population close to 2 million inhabitants. With heightened population and activity, travel patterns are increasing and scattered. The development of land use in the Sarbagita Metropolitan area occurred rapidly and was not properly anticipated by the provision of adequate infrastructure. This study aims to examine the patterns of movement that occurs and projections for future conditions as a basis to develop a more sustainable transportation infrastructure. The data used are the origin-destination of people and goods, and statistical population data. The prediction method uses four-stages modeling with the help of Visum software and was validated based on the average daily traffic (ADT) data. The results of the study indicate that traffic accumulation occurs on most arterial and collector roads especially around Denpasar with a degree of saturation exceeding 1. To anticipate future population and increased activities, developing a mass public transport system, multi-mode system, ICT system, and limiting the ownership and use of private motor vehicles is necessary.


2015 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 64-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Henao ◽  
Daniel Piatkowski ◽  
Kara S. Luckey ◽  
Krista Nordback ◽  
Wesley E. Marshall ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Zhanping You ◽  
Meor O. Hamzah ◽  
Hainian Wang ◽  
Aboelkasim Diab ◽  
Qingli Dai

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