Infrastructure Systems Analysis and Decision Making

Catalog description

This course focuses on the physical infrastructure systems that provide essential public services, including transportation, energy, water, communications, etc. These complex, large-scale, expensive systems must be planned for and managed. This course emphasizes different tools (including basic economic theory, mathematical modeling, and optimization techniques) that can be used to study these complex systems, drawing examples from transportation. This includes evaluation of infrastructure investments; better informing the data collection and inspection process; modeling deterioration of infrastructure components such as pavement; and maintenance and repair decision-making at both the single facility and system level.