Civil Infrastructure Management: New Challenges from Technology

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue “Civil Infrastructure Management: New Challenges from Technology” calls for papers on scientific, technical, and policy advancements related to civil infrastructure.

Technology is rapidly advancing, indicating the need for new approaches to the management of civil infrastructure systems, e.g., roadways, traffic signs, bridges, and pipelines. Infrastructure management, by traditional definition, includes the following major activities: inventory, inspection, or monitoring; mathematical modeling of deterioration or performance; decisions on maintenance, repair, or replacement; and managing risk under exposure to natural and artificial hazards. Some new technologies such as the applications of GPS/GNSS and GIS are valuable in spatial models for inventory, inspection, and monitoring of infrastructure. Big data concepts and machine (deep) learning techniques are becoming useful tools for various industries, especially to enhance data analysis and decision making. The fast path to the adaptation of connected and automated vehicles (CAV) technology also necessitates the development of new approaches to manage civil infrastructure.

This Special Issue aims to cover recent approaches, both theoretical and practical, where models for the management of civil infrastructures, as defined above, have incorporated methodologies to address the challenges posed by the new advanced technologies. Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not limited to advanced inspection/monitoring, application of big data concepts, application of machine (deep) learning techniques, connected and automated vehicles (CAV), and advanced risk models. Submitted papers should ideally have a scope incorporating scientific advancement, technology innovation, as well as practice-ready concepts.

Dr. John Sobanjo
Guest Editor

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