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Book Synopsis Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime by : Joseph H. Saleh
Download or read book Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime written by Joseph H. Saleh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An issue in engineering design is a system's design lifetime. Economists study durability choice problems for consumer goods but seldom address lifetime problem(s) of complex engineering systems. The issues for engineering systems are complex and multidisciplinary and require an understanding of the 'technicalities of durability' and the economic implications of the marginal cost of durability and value maximization. Commonly the design lifetime for an infrastructure is set between 30 and 70 years. Satellite lifetimes are also assigned arbitrarily or with limited analysis. This book provides a systemic qualitative and quantitative approach to these problems addressing, first, the technicality of durability, second, the marginal cost of durability, and third, the durability choice problem for complex engineering systems with network externalities (competition and market uncertainty) and obsolescence effects (technology evolution). Since the analyses are system-specific, a satellite example is used to illustrate the essence and provide a quantitative application of said analyses.
Download or read book Road Work written by Kenneth A. Small and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's interstate highway system is deteriorating, and traffic congestion in most urban centers is worsening. Because of the many strong and conflicting interests, policy discussions about the road system are also in gridlock. The only consensus that seems to have emerged is that public spending must be increased. Improving our highway system and its financing will not be easy. Road Work proposes a comprehensive highway pricing and investment policy to meet the goals of efficiency, equity, and financial stability. In this study, Kenneth A. Small, Clifford Winston, and Carol A. Evans base their policy on two economic principles: efficient pricing to regulate demand for highway services and efficient investment to minimize the total public and private costs of providing them. Policy recommendations include a set of pavement-wear taxes for heavy trucks, a set of congestion taxes for all vehicles, and a program of optimal investments in road durability. Their proposals should be especially attractive to policymakers because they can be implemented with current technology, offer little threat to the major interest group, and in the long run will reduce the strain on state and local governments' highway budgets.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :236 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Highway Quality and Durability by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Download or read book Highway Quality and Durability written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Economic Fundamentals of Road Pricing by : Timothy Doe-Kwong Hau
Download or read book Economic Fundamentals of Road Pricing written by Timothy Doe-Kwong Hau and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recent Advances in Durability Improvement and Low-Carbon Strategy of Engineering Materials and Structures by : Zhongya Zhang
Download or read book Recent Advances in Durability Improvement and Low-Carbon Strategy of Engineering Materials and Structures written by Zhongya Zhang and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global warming, caused by a significant increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as CO2, has become a concern all over the world. The whole process carbon emissions of the civil engineering industry account for nearly 40% of global energy and process-related CO2 emissions, more than half of which come from the process of producing, using, constructing and dismantling in civil engineering materials and structures, resulting in the embodied carbon emissions. With the acceleration of global warming, warmer and uncertain climates will make engineering materials and structures subject to more severe environmental conditions. A series of durability issues will occur more frequently, such as the significant variations of humidity in air, the chloride-induced corrosion caused by the severe chloride ingress, concrete cracking caused by the expansion of rusts, and more severe carbonation of concrete structures due to the increase in CO2 concentration. The adoption of positive measures to address climate change has become a global consensus, as global warming has led to serious threats and challenges to the survival and development of humankind.
Book Synopsis Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems by : M Dogaki
Download or read book Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems written by M Dogaki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 28 papers including 4 keynote papers presented at the 10th IFIP WG7.5 Working Conference, focusing on the reliability and optimization of structural systems.
Book Synopsis Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment by : Edward L. Glaeser
Download or read book Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment written by Edward L. Glaeser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy makers often call for increased spending on infrastructure, which can encompass a broad range of investments, from roads and bridges to digital networks that will expand access to high-speed broadband. Some point to the near-term macroeconomic benefits, such as job creation, associated with infrastructure spending; others point to the long-term effects of such spending on productivity and economic growth. Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment explores the links between infrastructure investment and economic outcomes, analyzing key economic issues in the funding and management of infrastructure projects. It includes new research on the short-run stimulus effects of infrastructure spending, develops new estimates of the stock of US infrastructure capital, and explores incentive aspects of public-private partnerships with particular attention to their allocation of risk. The volume provides a reference for researchers seeking to study infrastructure issues and for policymakers tasked with determining the appropriate level and allocation of infrastructure spending.
Download or read book Highway Quality Compendium written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Technology and Competitiveness Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :236 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Surface Transportation R&D by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Technology and Competitiveness
Download or read book Surface Transportation R&D written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Technology and Competitiveness and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation by : David L. Greene
Download or read book The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation written by David L. Greene and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern transportation systems have far-reaching, and serious consequences: deaths and injuries from accidents, pollution of air, water and groundwater, noise congestion, and the greenhouse effect. As world transport systems expand and become increasingly motorised, the transportation community is searching for systems that are both efficient and sustainable. Here, leading international researchers explore the issues and concepts and define the state of knowledge concerning the full costs and benefits of transportation.
Book Synopsis American Railroads by : Robert E. Gallamore
Download or read book American Railroads written by Robert E. Gallamore and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overregulated and displaced by barges, trucks, and jet aviation, railroads fell into decline. Their misfortune was measured in lost market share, abandoned track, bankruptcies, and unemployment. Today, rail transportation is reviving. American Railroads tells a riveting story about how this iconic industry managed to turn itself around.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :3510 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Reauthorization of the Post-interstate Surface Transportation Programs by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Download or read book Reauthorization of the Post-interstate Surface Transportation Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 3510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life-Cycle of Engineering Systems: Emphasis on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure by : Jaap Bakker
Download or read book Life-Cycle of Engineering Systems: Emphasis on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure written by Jaap Bakker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the papers presented at IALCCE2016, the fifth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE2016), to be held in Delft, The Netherlands, October 16-19, 2016. It consists of a book of extended abstracts and a DVD with full papers including the Fazlur R. Khan lecture, keynote lectures, and technical papers from all over the world. All major aspects of life-cycle engineering are addressed, with special focus on structural damage processes, life-cycle design, inspection, monitoring, assessment, maintenance and rehabilitation, life-cycle cost of structures and infrastructures, life-cycle performance of special structures, and life-cycle oriented computational tools. The aim of the editors is to provide a valuable source for anyone interested in life-cycle of civil infrastructure systems, including students, researchers and practitioners from all areas of engineering and industry.
Book Synopsis Road Infrastructure and Economic Development by : Cesar A. V. Queiroz
Download or read book Road Infrastructure and Economic Development written by Cesar A. V. Queiroz and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average stock of paved roads per million inhabitants in high-income economies is 59 times that in low-income economies. And those roads are in better condition than the ones in low income economies.
Download or read book The American Economic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes papers and proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Economic Association. Covers all areas of economic research.
Author :National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Study of Public Policy for Surface Freight Transportation Publisher :Transportation Research Board ISBN 13 :9780309062176 Total Pages :184 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (621 download)
Book Synopsis Paying Our Way by : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Study of Public Policy for Surface Freight Transportation
Download or read book Paying Our Way written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Study of Public Policy for Surface Freight Transportation and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a preliminary examination of whether shippers of domestic surface freight pay the full social costs of the services that they use. This study is intended not to provide definitive answers as to whether shippers pay their full social costs, but rather to determine the feasibility of making such estimates.
Book Synopsis Revitalizing a Nation by : Clifford Winston
Download or read book Revitalizing a Nation written by Clifford Winston and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An efficient transportation system reduces the cost of distance by moving people and goods from their origins to their destinations as cheaply, quickly, and safely as possible. By enabling individuals and firms to be more productive, transportation provides the foundation for the development and growth of industries and an entire economy. Clifford Winston, Jia Yan, and Associates argue that competition and innovation are the key drivers of an efficient transportation system. The authors provide new evidence that transportation deregulation and privatization that spur additional competition among carriers and infrastructure providers, as well as new innovations that create autonomous transportation services, have the potential to rid the US transportation system of its major inefficiencies and revitalize the nation.
