Existing practices, alternatives

Assessing Serviceability Improvement Alternatives of Existing Structures

The aim of this paper is to present a generic decision support system for selecting an optimal repair alternative for aging infrastructure systems considering sustainability. Emphasis is placed on how to properly decide on a maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, replacement strategy for deteriorating structures, applying the concept of life-cycle cost analysis. Taking into account the decision t...

Evaluation of Existing Rdm Design Alternatives

Existing Criticisms of Simulation Practices

Several recent studies have underlined the lack of rigor in simulation practices that threatens the credibility of the published claims. While agreeing with some of the criticism, this article argues against some others and advocates for a different overall view. In short, existing criticism is concentrated on simulation as an independent task, and advises better reporting (repeatability), more...

Measurement of e-Government Impact: Existing practices and shortcomings

Public administrations of all over the world invest an enormous amount of resources in e-government. How the success of egovernment can be measured is often not clear. E-government involves many aspects of public administration ranging from introducing new technology to business process (re-)engineering. The measurement of the effectiveness of e-government is a complicated endeavor. In this pap...

Evaluation of Remote Sensing Aerial Systems in Existing Transportation Practices

A low-cost aerial platform represents a flexible tool for acquiring high-resolution images for ground areas of interest. The geo-referencing of objects within these images could benefit civil engineers in a variety of research areas including, but not limited to, work zone management, traffic congestion, safety, and environmental impact studies. During the Phase II effort, a Remotely Controlled...