This article adopts a family of surrogate‐based optimization approaches to approximate the
response surface for the transportation simulation input–output mapping and search for the …

Every year, billions of dollars are spent on rail track maintenance to keep the serviceability of
the railroad network. These maintenance projects (of different types) must be performed by …

Railroad job clustering is an important part of railroad track maintenance planning. It focuses
on clustering track maintenance jobs into projects, so that the projects can be assigned to …

As the biofuel industry continues to expand, the construction of new biorefinery facilities
induces a huge amount of biomass feedstock shipment from supply points to the refineries …

Transportation asset management delivers efficient and cost-effective investment decisions
to support transportation infrastructure and system usage performance measured in …

Many government agencies and private consulting companies manage large pavement
networks in terms of infrastructure condition assessment and maintenance planning …

This study introduces a multicriteria tradeoff analysis method based on Dempster-Shafer
(DS) theory in conjunction with the Mixed Aggregation by Comprehensive Normalization …

The standard assumption in (dynamic) traffic assignment models is that route choice is
solely determined by a (perceived) deterministic travel time. However, recently, there is a …

The US railroad companies spend billions of dollars every year on railroad track
maintenance in order to ensure safety and operational efficiency of their railroad networks …

In this study, a model representing military requirements as scenarios and capabilities is
offered. Pair-wise comparisons of scenarios are made according to occurrence probabilities …