Book Description
Papers presented at this session include: recent developments and potential future directions in ranking and optimization procedures for pavement management (cook, wd and lytton, rl); sample size selection (scullion, t, lytton, rl and templeton, cj); the economic optimization of pavement maintenance and rehabilitation policy (markow, mj, brademeyer, bd and sherwood, j); achieving efficiency in planning and programming through network-level policy optimization and pavement management (paterson, wdo and fossberg, pe); a dynamic programming approach to optimization for pavement management systems (feighan, kj, shahin, my and sinha, kc); a decomposition approach for rehabilitation and maintenance programming (gendreau, m); a computationally efficient system for infrastructure management with application to pavement management (nesbitt, dm and sparks, ga); a micro-computer markov dynamic programming system for pavement management in finland (thompson, pd, neumann, la and miettinen, m). for the covering abstract of the conference see irrd 807044.