As the world transitions towards electric, connected, and automated vehicles (ECAVs), asset managers continue to prepare physical infrastructure investments needed to accommodate these technologies. With increasing ECAV adoption, the revenues typically earned from vehicle registrations and fuel...

Highway agencies around the world strive to improve practices for infrastructure maintenance and rehabilitation, using project delivery policies that range from total 'in-house' responsibility to complete privatization, with a number of flexible contracting policies such as performance-based...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the cost and production structure of mass transit systems using both panel and time series data. Accepting cost minimization (subject to a set of constraints that reflect demand, regulatory, and urban setting conditions) as the economic...

This research investigated the relationship between highways and economic development, using data for Indiana from 1980 to 1988. An extensive literature review was undertaken to assess analogous research and results, to identify methodologies that were used, and to review similar studies in...

A shortfall in highway funding in the U.S. is forcing highway agencies to search for viable financing options. This will likely lead to reforming fiscal policy for highway systems. A sound highway fiscal policy comprises two components: generation of adequate revenues through efficient pricing...

Researchers and engineers worldwide continue to ponder over the reliability of construction cost forecasts made at the early stages of project development. The accuracy of such estimates influences the selection of projects for implementation. After a project has been incorporated in the...

The loss of states’ sovereign immunity in the 1970’s opened the gates for highway-related tort liability suits against the states. Between January 2001 and September 2002, the State of Indiana investigated and settled hundreds of highwayrelated tort cases, involving several millions of...

Highway asset management is a systematic process that aims to preserve, expand, and operate highway assets in the most cost-effective manner. It is an analytical tool that facilitates organized, logical, and integrated decision-making in asset management practice. This dissertation proposes a...