Decision Support Framework for Infrastructure Maintenance Investment Decision Making

Making Decision Support System for Utilization of Biogas in Iran

The use of renewable energy sources is often suggested to be a good solution for climate change and the dependency to fossil fuel. Biogas utilization is a one of these promising options that can mitigate these problems since biogas is produced by the fermentation of waste, so is rich in methane and has the same characteristics as natural gas. Biogas has increasingly been noticed in different co...

Decision making framework for utsourcing activities in the banking system

The outsourcing of financial services has been growing during last decades.Inspite of expanding managers awareness about this subject,most of outsourcing projects have been lost due to qualifative decision critera and ignorance of environmental circumstances. The purpose of research is to design a model for making decision about outaourcing activities in banking system.From the point of purpos...

Decision-support tools for municipal infrastructure maintenance management

Sewers, water pipes, and streets are elements of our civil infrastructure, the supporting structure of society. Infrastructure is a complex technical system that provides us with a varied range of essential services; a storehouse of resources and wealth that each generation inherits, uses, and passes on to succeeding generations. The asset management has a big influence on infrastructure develo...

Multi Entity Perspective Transportation Infrastructure Investment Decision Making

Investment in new large transportation infrastructure is capital-intensive and irreversible in nature. Private sector participation in infrastructure investment has gained popularity in recent times because of scarcity of resources at the public sector, and because of the ability of the private sector to build, operate, maintain such facilities, and share future uncertainties. In such cases, th...

Multimodal Infrastructure Investment Decision Making: An Institutional and Funding Perspective