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Infrastructure planning, engineering and economics
1 online resource (xviii, 396 pages) : illustrations, figs., tables.
The new edition of this infrastructure planning and management resource has been fully updated and streamlined to improve ease of use for instructors, students, and professionals alike. It features global case studies and includes a new chapter on sustainability for design, construction, and maintenance.
A. About asce -- B. Dedication -- C. About the authors -- D. Preface -- E. Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- Scope -- Definitions of ?public works? and ?infrastructure? -- Examples of infrastructure projects -- Categories of public infrastructure projects -- Typical infrastructure planning steps -- Goals and objectives -- Programming and budgeting process of public works agencies -- Evolution of infrastructure planning process -- Relationships between infrastructure and development -- Several important principles for project designs in developing countries -- Federal infrastructure strategy program -- Infrastructure asset management -- 2. Planning contexts, perspectives, and objectives -- Scope -- Planning sequences -- Basic contexts for planning public works and infrastructure -- Some important perspectives for public works and infrastructure -- Previously mentioned ?new? objectives and issues -- Economic objectives in the united states -- Infrastructure programs which do not require benefit-cost analysis -- Private enterprises and infrastructure planning -- System of law -- Federal law -- State and local law -- Eminent domain and zoning -- Water rights -- Other comments concerning legal and institutional issues -- 3. Planning and appraisal of major infrastructure projects -- Scope -- Sequence of studies for a single major infrastructure project -- First stage: preliminary (or reconnaissance) report -- Second stage: feasibility report -- Third stage: final design and preparation of contract documents -- Fourth stage: construction -- Fifth stage: operation -- Formulation of a major engineering project -- Project costs -- Costs for professional planning and construction services -- Appraisal process before approval of a major project -- Project delivery methods -- 4. Screening projects and master planning -- Scope -- Planning area -- Needs, problems, and opportunities in planning studies -- Screening procedure for single-purpose projects?emphasis on function, engineering factors, and cost -- Case study: screening procedure for single-purpose projects?emphasis on function and environmental/social factors -- Screening procedure for projects within a system, and for projects that serve multiple purposes and/or multiple objectives -- Concepts of master planning reports for a defined geographic area -- Hypothetical master planning report as synthesis of numerous comprehensive studies -- Review and adjustment of data for master and regional planning -- Case study?review and adjustment of proposals prepared by different planners -- 5. Municipal infrastructure systems?performance and prioritization measures -- Scope -- Measures of system performance of various public works elements and types?national research council studies -- Trade-offs between repair, renewals and replacements, and new construction -- Cost-effectiveness measures for projects of a routine nature -- Prioritization of projects for maintenance, rehabilitation, and replacement of local infrastructure systems?urban institute studies -- Data collection and analysis for decision making?case studies of water distribution systems -- 6. Comparisons of infrastructure alternatives -- Scope -- Methods for comparing and prioritizing infrastructure alternatives -- Formulas involving discount rate and use of spreadsheets -- Examples showing solutions of problems involving comparisons of public works alternatives, using interest formulas and spreadsheets -- Levelized unit cost or price -- Life-cycle analysis -- Life-cycle analysis of pavement schemes -- Comparing alternatives with multiple attributes -- Generic matrix approach for comparing alternatives with multiple attributes.
7. Planning aids -- Scope -- Basic data for planning -- Classification of data -- Aerial photos, remote sensing, gps, and satellites -- Geographic information systems (gis) -- Computer-aided design (cad) -- Computerized data banks and displays -- Overlays and other techniques for suitability mapping -- Generalized estimates -- Forecasting models for infrastructure planning -- Population projections and other demographic studies -- 8. Financial analyses -- Scope -- Types of financial analyses -- General principles for application of financial analyses -- Financial analyses for a municipal water supply project -- Financial analyses for project with different sponsorships -- Financial analyses with multiple financing sources -- Break-even points as financial indicators -- Management of debt service based on financial analysis -- Cost allocations and subsidies -- Accounting for inflation in financial analyses -- Financial issues for local governments -- Financial analyses of privatization schemes -- The privatization movement -- Privatization of existing public works -- Outsourcing (contracting out of public services) -- Accounting documents and issues -- 9. Economic analyses?concepts -- Scope -- General concepts of economic analysis for public works -- Some principles of methodologies for economic analysis of public works -- Examples of benefits conforming to the measurement standard -- Practical methodologies incorporating multiple objectives -- Price elasticity -- Preferred scale of development (considering only economic efficiency) -- Benefit-cost ratio and other measures for ranking projects in the united states -- Characteristics of benefit-cost ratio and internal rate of return -- Selection of discount (interest) rate -- Accounting for inflation in economic analysis -- Accounting for external economies and diseconomies in economic analysis -- With-and-without basis of analysis?the base case (no action alternative) -- Local infrastructure costs as a consideration in economic analysis -- Value of human life as a consideration in economic analysis -- Application of shadow pricing in economic analysis -- Accounting for risk and uncertainty in economic analysis -- Allocation of costs of multipurpose projects -- Models for estimating economic effects due to infrastructure development -- 10. Economic analyses?applications -- Scope -- Scope of evaluations and costs and benefits -- Format for benefit-cost calculations -- Example of benefit-cost analysis of municipal water supply -- Examples of benefit-cost analyses of transportation projects -- Examples of benefit-cost analyses that illustrate differences with government or private sponsorship -- Example of benefit-cost analysis with application of probability analysis -- Example of benefit-cost analysis with application of sensitivity analysis -- Example of cost allocation for facility serving multiple purposes and/or multiple projects -- Examples comparing benefit-cost analysis with sufficiency ratings and cost-effectiveness measures -- I-o analysis of benefits for estimate of b/c ratio.
11. Environmental and social impact assessment?concepts, requirements, and procedures -- Scope -- General concepts of environmental and social impact assessment -- United states laws, regulations, and policies regarding environmental and social impact assessments -- Ceq guidelines for environmental impact statements -- Interpretation of nepa and ceq rules -- Epa role in eia and eis process -- Scoping for the eis -- The ecological and human environments?categories, attributes, and parameters -- Identification of environmental and social impacts over project area and over project cycle -- Special considerations involving land and water interrelationships, energy consumption, and air quality -- Comparison of project alternatives involving environmental and social impacts, including examples -- 12. Environmental and social impact assessment?additional analysis and issues -- Scope -- Concepts of human environment, human well-being, social well-being, social welfare, and quality of life -- Relationships involving infrastructure, quality of life, business development, and urban growth -- Scope of social impact assessments -- Environmental justice -- Sustainability and environmental economics -- Environmental economics?general concepts -- Studies by government agencies on environmental economics -- Cost-effectiveness basis for meeting environmental quality objectives -- Benefit-cost basis for environmental planning -- Role of public involvement in planning -- Purposes and benefits of public participation -- Requirements for public participation -- Factors that contribute to effective participation -- Descriptions of public participation and education techniques -- Case study?new hampshire route 16 corridor study -- 13. Sustainability -- Introduction and scope -- Historical context -- Sustainable development and sustainability -- Dimensions of sustainability -- Weak and strong sustainability -- Sustainability models -- Approaches to sustainability issues in infrastructure planning -- Global implications of sustainability -- Sustainability indexes -- 14. Planning for uncertainty and risk -- Scope -- Uncertainty, sensitivity, and risk: recapitulation of concepts and case studies -- Risk and uncertainty analysis in planning organizations -- Selection of parameters for risk analysis -- Accounting for unforeseen changes and events -- Common sense and intuition in decision making -- Decision theory -- Utility theory -- Decision analysis approaches -- Example of a decision tree analysis for infrastructure planning -- Application of bayes theorem to decision tree problems -- Analytic hierarchy process (ahp) for comparing alternatives with multiple attributes -- Other infrastructure planning applications that consider uncertainty -- 15. Operations research methods for planning and analysis -- Scope -- Nature and applicability of mathematical models -- Mathematical programming models -- Simulation models -- Applicability of mathematical models with multiple objectives and/or criteria -- Artificial intelligence systems -- Decision support models: expert systems -- Other tools for economic models -- A. Problems -- Introduction -- Planning contexts, perspectives, and objectives -- Planning and appraisal of major infrastructure projects -- Screening projects and master planning -- Municipal infrastructure systems?performance and prioritization measures -- Comparisons of infrastructure alternatives -- Planning aids -- Financial analyses -- Economic analyses?concepts -- Economic analyses?applications -- Environmental and social impact assessment?concepts, requirements, and procedures -- Environmental and social impact assessment?additional analyses and issues -- Planning for uncertainty and risk -- Operations research methods for planning and analysis -- B. References.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.