Table of Contents

Overview of multimodal transportation systems. Multimodal transportation asset management system framework. Multimodal transportation system goals, objectives, and performance measures. Data collection, processing, and database management. Multimodal infrastructure performance modelling. Transportation impacts modeling. Needs assessment and countermeasure investment projects. Economic analysis of investment strategies for highway and airport pavement preservation. Economic analysis of investment strategies for highway and rail bridge preservation. Economic analysis of investment strategies for commuter and intercity high speed rail track preservation. Economic analysis of investment strategies for inland waterway navigable channel preservation. Economic analysis of investment strategies for highway and railways safety improvements. Economic analysis of investment strategies for highway and railway safety hardware improvements. Economic analysis of investment strategies for congestion mitigations. Project evaluation using multicriteria decision-making methods. Project selection, programming, and trade-off analysis methods. Innovative financing. Institutional issues.

About the Author

Zongzhi Li is a Professor and Director of the Sustainable Transportation and Infrastructure Research (STAIR) Center and the Transportation Engineering Laboratory, at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Reviews

"This book should be adopted in graduate and postgraduate courses...I was very impressed with the material."~Rita Moura Fortes, Federal Institute of São Paulo