Pavement Management: Inspection and Life-Cycle Assessment
A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811). This special issue belongs to the section "Infrastructures Inspection and Maintenance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 3291
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pavement maintenance; pavement management systems; life-cycle analysis; environmental sustainability; social sustainability; optimization; metaheuristics; decision-making; bridge design; structural optimization; construction principles
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: monitoring; material design; life-cycle analysis; environmental sustainability; social sustainability; pavement maintenance; pavement management systems; project management; lean construction; decision-making; construction principles
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The pavement network is one of the largest heritage assets in a country. Its management is essential to maintain the network in a good condition and reduce transport costs and emissions. Pavement Management Systems (PMSs) are used to provide effective and efficient directives to allocate resources ensuring good pavement conditions and reducing life-cycle costs. One of the main steps of a PMS is the inspection to determine the pavement condition. For this purpose, different devices and methods are used to collect and analyse data. In addition, a PMS uses this data to evaluate the deterioration over an analysis period and define more effective management plans that may address sustainability strategies. This Special Issue is seeking papers that explore new ways of inspection and life-cycle assessment of pavements that reduce the life-cycle cost and environmental impact and promote social progress. These objectives include, but are not limited to:
- The development of technologies for automated inspection
- Artificial Intelligence applied to pavement assessment
- Pavement performance
- Techniques to PMS
- Life-cycle assessment
- Economic, environmental, and social impact of pavement maintenance
- Multi-objective optimization
- Decision-making to integrate sustainable criteria
Dr. Tatiana García-Segura
Dr. Laura Montalbán-Domingo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Pavement
- Maintenance
- Management
- Inspection
- Life-cycle assessment
- Sustainability
- Decision-making
- Artificial Intelligence
