Print version c2013.

Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on Sept. 20, 2013.

"This comprehensive resource provides thorough coverage of the tools and techniques used in planning, building, maintaining, and fixing civil infrastructure. Thoroughly updated throughout, Public Infrastructure Asset Management, Second Edition presents the framework and elements of life cycle management of civil infrastructure assets in the context of current practice. The book explains how to achieve the optimal integrated, multi-disciplinary set of strategies (design, construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, and renovation) necessary to manage and sustain modern public physical infrastructure assets. These include: roads and bridges / airports / ports / public utilities / water and wastewater facilities / mass transit systems / hospitals / schools / parks and recreation facilities / sports complexes. The book has been thoroughly revised to reflect the impact of built infrastructure on the environment, social concerns, new technologies and scientific developments, and the impacts of natural and man-made disasters. Covers valuation of infrastructure assets, largely in response to Government Accounting Standards Requirements such as GASB34 in the United States, PSAB3150 in Canada, and similar standards in Australia Addresses the adverse environmental impacts of deteriorating air quality, GHG emissions, excessive noise, and available mitigation strategies Includes specific approaches to sustainability including green methodologies, resource conservation, re-use of materials, renewable energy Financing models for publicly owned infrastructure and for public-private-partnerships (P3s) Addresses online infrastructure (data access, mobile apps, cloud computing) and how these infrastructure services are assessed and provided Adds new and/or updated methodologies on performance measures related to sustainability, security, level of service provisions, safety, institutional effectiveness, preservation of assets and investments, technologies for in-service monitoring, data analysis, prioritization, and decision support and knowledge management"-- Provided by publisher.

"This comprehensive resource provides thorough coverage of the tools and techniques used in planning, building, maintaining, and fixing civil infrastructure"-- Provided by publisher.

Part 1. The challenge of managing infrastructure

Part 2. Information management and decision support systems

Part 3. Concepts of total quality management

Part 4. Economics, life-cycle analysis, and M,R&R programming

Part 5. IAMS development and implementation, examples.

The big picture

Framework for infrastructure asset management

Planning, needs assessment, and performance indicators

Database management, data needs, analysis

Inventory, historical, and environmental data

In-service monitoring and evaluation data

Uses of monitoring data and examples of in-service evaluation

Performance modeling and failure analysis

Design for infrastructure service life

Construction

Maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction strategies, including operations

Dealing with new or alternate concepts

Maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction policies and treatment alternatives

Life-cycle cost and benefit analysis

Prioritization, optimization, and work programs

Concept of integrated infrastructure asset management systems

Visual ims: an illustrative infrastructure management system and applications

Available asset management system and commercial off-the-shelf providers

Benefits of implementing an ams

Sustainability, environmental stewardship, and asset management

Future directions for infrastructure asset management.

Engineering > Management.

Infrastructure (Economics) > Management.

Electronic books.

Computer network resources.