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  title info:
    title: Development of an optimal durability-based highway cost allocation model
  name:
    name part: Makrigeorgis, Christos N.
    name part: 1961-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Garcia-Diaz, Alberto
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Borosh, Itshak
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Hogg, Gary L.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Malave, Cesar O.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1991
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 206 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: This dissertation presents an integrated approach to modeling one of the most critical problems in modern transportation planning. The problem is the so-called highway cost allocation problem involving the equitable allocation of the joint total cost among all vehicle classes sharing a transportation facility such as a highway. It closely resembles problems which typically operate under the premise that the total project cost must be divided among the participants equitably and exactly, that is, with no profit or loss to the project agency. In an effort to capture the incentives for cooperation and to provide a formal mathematical framework to deal with the intuitive notion of equity, the highway cost allocation problem is cast as an n-person cooperative cost game. The cornerstone of this cost game is a durability-based cost function which assesses the destructive effects of increased legal traffic loadings on pavements using the concept of equivalent single axle loads (ESALs). This function is used to determine the cost of the optimal long-term construction and maintenance strategy for each subset of the set of distinct vehicle classes sharing the highway. Using these optimal durability-based costs, a highway cost allocation problem can then be defined as the problem of finding an equitable cost allocation for each vehicle class such that the total cost of providing the highway for all users is completely financed by the users themselves (completeness), and such that no group of vehicle classes pays more than the cost of providing an exclusive highway for the group (rationality). It is shown via an implicit function approach that, under reasonable assumptions, these two conditions mathematically define a nonempty, bounded, convex polyhedron known as the core, consisting of an infinite number of feasible but nondominated cost allocation solutions, from which one must be selected . A meaningful criterion of equity termed the Marginal to Rational Max-Min Ratio (MRMR) …
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: Industrial Engineering."
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1991
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Roads
    geographic: United States
    topic: Costs
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Highway planning
  subject:
    topic: Major industrial engineering
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 921208
    record change date: 20200904152557.0
    record identifier: in00001110267
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng