Integrated Asset Management System for Highways Infrastructure: A Comprehensive Infrastructure Asset Management Study on Performance-based Road Maintenance Contracts - Softcover

Abu-Samra Soliman A

 
9783659685422: Integrated Asset Management System for Highways Infrastructure: A Comprehensive Infrastructure Asset Management Study on Performance-based Road Maintenance Contracts
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3659685429 ISBN 13: 9783659685422
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Performance-Based Maintenance Contracts (PBMC) for highways is gradually becoming an appealing contractual mechanism for transferring the maintenance activities, traditionally undertaken by the public sector, to private entities. Amplified financial pressures on governments, demands for improved service levels, and the operational efficiency offered by private entities, all create a strong business case for PBMC. This book introduces an "Integrated Highway Asset Management System", which extends the standard functionality of traditional pavement management systems to cover specific contractual requirements of PBMC. The system is designed to analyze both network-level and project-level asset management decisions. Defect-specific pavement deterioration models are developed using multivariate regression. Stochastic network-level deterioration models are developed using markov-chains. Life cycle costing models are developed to cover specific financial obligations in PBMC such as; penalties & incentives, in addition to traditional M&R expenditures. Optimization modules are used to trade-off various decision scenarios that are beneficial to both maintenance contractors and road agencies.

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Publisher
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3659685429
ISBN 13 
9783659685422
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
260