Pavement Resurfacing Planning for Highway Networks: Parametric Policy Iteration Approach
This paper presents a modeling framework for planning pavement resurfacing activities on highway networks in the case of continuous pavement state, discrete time, and infinite horizon. Optimal resurfacing policies that minimize discounted life-cycle costs are obtained by solving a multidimensional dynamic program, where travelers' route choices and the agency's resource allocation decisions are considered simultaneously. To reduce computational difficulty, policy iteration is used together with a parametric function approximation technique. Numerical examples show that the proposed approach solves the planning problem efficiently. The effect of various factors (travelers' route choice, agency budget, etc.) on the optimal policies is also analyzed.
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Authors:
- Ouyang, Yanfeng
- Publication Date: 2007-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 65-71
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Serial:
- Journal of Infrastructure Systems
- Volume: 13
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- ISSN: 1076-0342
- EISSN: 1943-555X
- Serial URL: http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jitse4
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Budgeting; Highways; Life cycle costing; Parametric analysis; Pavement management systems; Planning; Policy; Resurfacing; Route choice; Traffic assignment
- Uncontrolled Terms: Policy iteration; Road networks
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Finance; Highways; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01049447
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 21 2007 7:51AM