All for one: Centralized optimization of truck platoons to improve roadway infrastructure sustainability

OE Gungor, IL Al-Qadi - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2020 - Elsevier
With the introduction of connected and autonomous trucks (CATs), truck platooning is
expected to be more feasible and prevalent. The reported benefits of the truck platooning …

One for all: Decentralized optimization of lateral position of autonomous trucks in a platoon to improve roadway infrastructure sustainability

OE Gungor, R She, IL Al-Qadi, Y Ouyang - Transportation Research Part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction of autonomous and connected trucks (ACTs) is expected to result in drastic
changes in operational characteristics of freight shipments, which may in turn have …

Large-scale maintenance and rehabilitation optimization for multi-lane highway asphalt pavement: a reinforcement learning approach

L Yao, Z Leng, J Jiang, F Ni - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pavement maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) optimization is of great importance to the
sustainable development of roadway infrastructure. Various models have been developed …

A general iterative approach for the system-level joint optimization of pavement maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction planning

L Zhang, L Fu, W Gu, Y Ouyang, Y Hu - Transportation Research Part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
We formulate a general bottom-up model for the joint optimization of maintenance,
rehabilitation, and reconstruction (MR&R) schedules for a system of heterogeneous …

Unobserved component model for predicting monthly traffic volume

Z Bian, Z Zhang, X Liu, X Qin - Journal of Transportation …, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
Traffic volume prediction plays a critical role in transportation system and infrastructure
management. This paper develops the first application of an unobserved component model …

Incorporating dynamic traffic distribution into pavement maintenance optimization model

X Mao, C Yuan, J Gan - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
An optimal pavement maintenance strategy can keep the pavement performance at a high
level under budget constraint. However, the impact of changes in traffic distribution caused …

A hybrid genetic algorithm to maintain road networks using reliability theory

A Altarabsheh, I Altarabsheh… - Structure and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Maintaining road pavement is a challenging task, due to the vast size of the roads network
and the limited maintenance budget available to road agencies. Therefore, most agencies …

Impacts of Increased Prediction Accuracy in Management Decisions: A Study of Full-Depth Reclamation Pavements

E Evers, C Torres-Machi - Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Given the abundance of condition data regularly collected for major roadways, machine
learning has the potential to enhance pavement deterioration modeling. This is particularly …

A new model of pavement maintenance, rehabilitation and reconstruction considering multimodal network development

F Zukhruf, C Balijepalli, R Bona Frazila… - Engineering …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The development of a multimodal transportation network to improve traffic efficiency is
gaining extensive interest from researchers. Shifting road traffic to other modes of transport …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-objective optimization of flexible pavement design from an environmental and economic perspective

A Demir, J Santos, S Miller, R Diele… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, construction companies have been pressured by clients to deliver
infrastructure that are not only affordable, but also more environmentally friendly. Flexible …