This book addresses the long-term maintenance, repair, and
replacement of public infrastructure in a practical, cost effective
manner-something that is missing in the current literature. Fixing
our public infrastructure is essential for public health and safety
and is fast becoming a national priority. This title provides an
overview of the major public works infrastructure systems (water,
sanitary sewer, stormwater, roads, bridges, and railways),
including components, operational goals, maintenance, areas where
failure can occur, and ways to address failure. Risk and
vulnerability to these systems are evaluated and guidance on how to
create a condition index (assessment), given limited data, is
provided. It also includes statistical methods to make an
assessment more robust. Recommendations on budgeting strategies and
capital planning are also discussed and designed to bring the risk,
vulnerability, and condition indices together into a thorough
decision-making process. It is a must read for anyone involved in
public infrastructure management, including professional civil and
environmental engineers, utility managers, local government
managers and officials, urban and regional planners, and civil and
environmental engineering students. Key Features: Presents an
overview of the components and maintenance needs of major public
infrastructure systems Outlines practical methods to gather data to
assess the condition of each infrastructure system and tools to
generate relevant data Provides ways to evaluate risk and
vulnerability in asset management and how to streamline the
decision-making processes Discusses the funding and prioritization
of capital improvement projects within infrastructure systems
Expands on the use of work orders and repairs to improve
information about each system Includes critical case studies from
around the United States where public infrastructure has failed,
followed by the lessons learned Features over 200 color figures and
75 tables to illustrate major points throughout the book, including
the components of public water, sanitary sewer, and stormwater
management systems WAV contains instructor materials for adopting
professors, including a proposed syllabus for the course, 15
PowerPoint lectures covering chapters 2 through 16, end-of-chapter
homework questions and answers, project ideas for the instructor,
GIS data sets for students to do their own condition assessments,
and sample final and midterm exams
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