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Trade-Off Analytics for Infrastructure Preservation
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2019-12-31
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Abstract:U.S. waterborne foreign trade has increased over the past 20 years (MARAD, 2016), and increases in maritime trade and infrastructure utilization are projected in the coming years (Howard, 2019). Maritime managers must be prepared to meet the future demand with a maritime and multimodal infrastructure that is sustainable, resilient, and efficient. Asset management of maritime and multimodal infrastructure involves many stakeholders and difficult trade-offs between operations, monitoring, maintenance, replacement of existing assets and development of new assets with a limited budget. Multiple Objective Decision Analysis (MODA) with Value-Focused Thinking (VFT) combined with Optimization provides a decision support methodology to provide trade-off insights for infrastructure asset management decision makers. However, examination of educational opportunities for practicing professionals reveals a lack of online graduate courses that teach these trade-off analysis techniques. Informing practicing professionals in the use of trade-off analytics will assist them in making infrastructure development, management, and preservation decisions that will provide increased U.S. maritime and multimodal infrastructure capabilities. The project objective was to develop an online course to be taught to the maritime and multimodal infrastructure community including: transportation planners, maritime planners, infrastructure managers, Civil Engineers, and Industrial Engineers, on the use of trade-off analytics as a tool to assist them in their infrastructure development, management and preservation decision-making.
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