OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Infrastructure Systems is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Using Machine Learning to Examine Impact of Type of Performance Indicator on Flexible Pavement Deterioration Modeling	74
Critical Failure Drivers in International Water PPP Projects	35
Infrastructure Interdependencies: Opportunities from Complexity	30
Public–Private Partnership Risks in Conflict Zones and Solutions: Case Study for Afghanistan	29
Preparing Road Infrastructure to Accommodate Connected and Automated Vehicles: System-Level Perspective	27
Key Decision-Making Factors Influencing Bundling Strategies: Analysis of Bundled Infrastructure Projects	27
Integrated Framework for Assessment of Time-Variant Flood Fragility of Bridges Using Deep Learning Neural Networks	25
Wavelet-Entropy Approach for Detection of Bridge Damages Using Direct and Indirect Bridge Records	25
Comparative Analysis of Markovian Methodologies for Modeling Infrastructure System Performance	24
Asset Management Framework for Integrated Municipal Infrastructure	22
Effect of Residential Building Wind Retrofits on Social and Economic Community-Level Resilience Metrics	21
Rapid Surface Damage Detection Equipment for Subway Tunnels Based on Machine Vision System	19
Combining Machine Learning and Survival Statistics to Predict Remaining Service Life of Watermains	18
Robust Design of Electric Charging Infrastructure Locations under Travel Demand Uncertainty and Driving Range Heterogeneity	16
Mere Nuisance or Growing Threat? The Physical and Economic Impact of High Tide Flooding on US Road Networks	16
Economic Impact Assessment of Severe Weather–Induced Power Outages in the US	15
Modeling Interaction of Emergency Inspection Routing and Restoration Scheduling for Postdisaster Resilience of Highway–Bridge Networks	14
Hindcasting the Functional Loss and Restoration of the Napa Water System Following the 2014 Earthquake Using Discrete-Event Simulation	13
Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Deteriorating Civil Infrastructures Incorporating Social Sustainability	12
Emergency Decision-Making System for the Large-Scale Infrastructure: A Case Study of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project	12
Impact of Contractual Flexibility on BIM-Enabled PPP Project Performance during the Construction Phase	12
Network-Level Bridge Deterioration Prediction Models That Consider the Effect of Maintenance and Rehabilitation	11
Coupled Continuous-Time Markov Chain–Bayesian Network Model for Dam Failure Risk Prediction	11
Multihazard Scenarios for Regional Seismic Risk Assessment of Spatially Distributed Infrastructure	11
A Reinforcement Learning Method for Multiasset Roadway Improvement Scheduling Considering Traffic Impacts	10

Reliability Assessment of Water Distribution Networks Using Minimum Cut Set Analysis	10
Developing a Sustainable Pavement Management Plan: Economics, Environment, and Social Equity	10
The Determinants of Time Overruns in Portuguese Public Projects	10
Proactive Operations and Investment Planning via Stochastic Optimization to Enhance Power Systems’ Extreme Weather Resilience	10
Assessing Pavement Friction Need for Safe Integration of Autonomous Vehicles into Current Road System	10
Risk-Based Metanetwork Modeling for Sustainable Project Performance in International Construction	9
Community Capitals Framework for Linking Buildings and Organizations for Enhancing Community Resilience through the Built Environment	9
Locomotive Model for International Competitive Advantages Paths of High-Speed Railway Contractors	9
Automated Detection and Characterization of Cracks on Concrete Using Laser Scanning	9
Performance Evaluation of Pipe Break Machine Learning Models Using Datasets from Multiple Utilities	9
Evaluating the Corruption Susceptibility Index of Infrastructure Procurement and Management in the Developed Context: The Case of Hong Kong	9
Considerations for Studying the Impacts of COVID-19 and Other Complex Hazards on Drinking Water Systems	9
Life Cycle Performance Measurement in Public–Private Partnership Infrastructure Projects	9
Seismic Rehabilitation Optimization of Water Pipe Networks Considering Spatial Variabilities of Demand Criticalities and Seismic Ground Motion Intensities	9
Assessing the Policy Provisions and Institutional Behavioral Factors Influencing Rail Infrastructure Financing in Developing Countries	9
Simplified Exhaustive Search Approach for Estimating the Nonhomogeneous Transition Probabilities for Infrastructure Asset Management	9
Modeling the Vulnerability and Resilience of Interdependent Transportation Networks under Multiple Disruptions	9
Remote Structural Infrasound: Case Studies of Real-Time Infrastructure System Monitoring	8
Prioritizing Road Network Restorative Interventions Using a Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization	8
Deep Reinforcement Learning–Enabled Bridge Management Considering Asset and Network Risks	8
Household Adaptations to Infrastructure System Service Interruptions	8
Applied Financial Metrics to Measure Interdependencies in a Waterway Infrastructure System	7
Flexible Planning for Intercity Multimodal Transport Infrastructure	7
Resource Allocation Framework for Optimizing Long-Term Infrastructure Network Resilience	7
Modeling Regional and Local Resilience of Infrastructure Networks Following Disruptions from Natural Hazards	7
Bridge Infrastructure Management System: Autoencoder Approach for Predicting Bridge Condition Ratings	7
Integrating the Risk of Climate Change into Transportation Asset Management to Support Bridge Network-Level Decision-Making	7
Multiobjective Optimization Method for Pavement Segment Grouping in Multiyear Network-Level Planning of Maintenance and Rehabilitation	7
Developing Automation Adoption Readiness Index for Quality Management Focused on Highway Construction	7
Accuracy of Drone-Based Surveys: Structured Evaluation of a UAS-Based Land Survey	7
Development of an Adaptive Solution to Increase Infrastructure System Resilience Based upon a Location-Allocation Methodology	6
Practical Two-Stage Bottom-Up Approach with a New Optimization Objective for Infrastructure Maintenance Management	6
Coopetition Strategies of International Joint Ventures for High-Speed Railway Projects	6
New Measure to Understand and Compare Bridge Conditions Based on Inspections Time-Series Data	6
IRI Estimation Based on Pavement Distress Type, Density, and Severity: Efficacy of Machine Learning and Statistical Techniques	6
Smart Data Management of Urban Infrastructure Using Geographic Information Systems	6
Estimating Extreme Event Resilience of Rail–Truck Intermodal Freight Networks: Methods, Models, and Case Study Application	6
Delivery of Transport Infrastructure Assets: Decision-Making Model to Ensure Value for Money	6
Dynamic Resilience Quantification of Hydropower Infrastructure in Multihazard Environments	6
Automated Framework to Audit Traffic Signs Using Remote Sensing Data	5
Factors Underpinning the Successful Return of Public–Private Partnership Projects to Public Authority: Assessing the Critical Success Factors of the Transfer Phase of Chinese Water Projects	5
Recommendations for Investing in Infrastructure at the Intersection of Resilience, Sustainability, and Equity	5
Digitalizing the Determination of Railway Infrastructure Intervention Programs: A Network Optimization Model	5
Governance Issues in PPP Procurement Options Analysis of Social Infrastructure: Case of Indian Waste Management Sector	5
Effect of Runtime on the Deterioration of HVAC Components in Building Services	5
Policies and Incentives for Promoting Distributed Solar Generation: Impact on Electric Power Infrastructure	5
Subway Ridership: Accounting for Regional Variation across Land-Use and Socioeconomic Settings	5
A Hybrid Recovery Strategy toward Sustainable Infrastructure Systems	5
Development of a Regulatory Mechanism for Key Stages in Public–Private Partnerships	4
Role of Spatial Effect in Postdisaster Housing Recovery: Case Study of Hurricane Katrina	4

Automated Bridge Crack Detection Based on Improving Encoder–Decoder Network and Strip Pooling	4
Infrastructure Asset Management System Optimized Configuration: A Genetic Algorithm–Complex Network Theoretic Metamanagement Approach	4
Development and Application of Instrumented Bicycle and Its Sensing Technology in Condition Assessments for Bike Trails	4
Integrated Planning of Operational Maintenance Programs for Water and Gas Distribution Networks	4
A Bootstrap-Based Integer Programming Algorithm for Budget Allocation in Pavement Management Systems	4
Network Analytics for Infrastructure Asset Management Systemic Risk Assessment	4
Risk-Informed Decision-Making for Predisaster Risk Mitigation Planning of Interdependent Infrastructure Systems: Case Study of Jamaica	4
Parking Infrastructure Location Design and User Pricing in the Prospective Era of Autonomous Vehicle Operations	4
National-Level Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on Local Scour under Bridge Piers in Sweden	4
Optimal Sampling Locations to Reduce Uncertainty in Contamination Extent in Water Distribution Systems	4
Automatic Damage Segmentation Framework for Buried Sewer Pipes Based on Machine Vision: Case Study of Sewer Pipes in Zhengzhou, China	4
Climate-Proofing Critical Energy Infrastructure: Smart Grids, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning for Power System Resilience against Extreme Weather Events	4
Evaluation of the Consistency of Bridge Inspection Ratings in New York State	4
Predicting Water Pipe Failures Using Deep Learning Algorithms	3
Postdisaster Recovery Planning for Interdependent Infrastructure Systems Prioritizing the Functionality of Healthcare Facilities	3
Managing Participants’ Behaviors: A Framework to Improve the Process Efficiency of Transport Public-Private Partnerships	3
Performance Assessment of Oil Supply Chain Infrastructure Subjected to Hurricanes	3
Early Termination Mechanism of Public–Private Partnership Transportation Projects with Government Guarantee	3
Performance Assessment of Deteriorating Bridge Channels in the Presence of Hurricane Failures: The Competing Risks Scenario	3
Repositioning Shared Urban Personal Transport Units: Considerations of Travel Cost and Demand Uncertainty	3
Risk Assessment Method for High-Speed Railway Track Based on Dynamically Weighted Acceleration	3
How Recent Developments in Smart Road Technologies and Construction Materials Can Contribute to the Sustainability of Road Infrastructure	3
Intelligent Optimized Decision-Support System for Sewer Network Assets Improvement	3
Dynamic Network Flow Model for Power Grid Systemic Risk Assessment and Resilience Enhancement	3
Interdependent Infrastructures as a Multiteam System: Enhancing Resilience	3
Life-Cycle Cost Model of High-Speed Railway Considering Carbon Emissions	3
Impact of Highway Nonuser Revenue on Equity Ratio: Exploratory Analysis	3
Aggregate Spatial Analysis of Design Reliability to Sight Distance Requirements: Assessing Reliability of Transportation Infrastructure on a Network Level	3
Measurement of Asphalt Pavement Crack Length Using YOLO V5-BiFPN	3
Determination of Postdisaster Restoration Programs for Road Networks Using a Double-Stage Optimization Approach	3
Deterioration of Flexible Pavements Induced by Flooding: Case Study Using Stochastic Monte Carlo Simulations in Discrete-Time Markov Chains	3
Accounting for Source Location on the Vulnerability Assessment of Water Distribution Network	3
Transportation Infrastructure Decision Flexibility in Response to Climate Change and Demand Uncertainties: The Mackenzie Valley Highway in Canada’s Northwest Territories	3
Automated Detection of Pavement Manhole on Asphalt Pavements with an Improved YOLOX	3
Policy Gradient–Based Focal Loss to Reduce False Negative Errors of Convolutional Neural Networks for Pavement Crack Segmentation	3
Enhanced Safety Performance Function for Highway Segments in Oklahoma	3
Pavement Deterioration Modeling and Network-Level Pavement Management Using Continuous Deflection Measurements	3
Attack–Defense Game in Interdependent Networks: A Functional Perspective	3
Framing the Use of Climate Model Projections in Infrastructure Engineering: Practices, Uncertainties, and Recommendations	3
Life-Cycle Assessment of Deteriorating RC Bridges Using Artificial Neural Networks	2
Copula-Based Matrix System Reliability for Reliability Assessment of General Systems	2
Integrated Engineering–Economic Analysis for Multihazard Damage and Loss Assessment	2
An In-Depth Econometric Analysis of Pavement Performance and Service Life by Pavement Rehabilitation Treatment Type and Delivery Method	2
Monitoring of Gantry Crane Track Health with Commodity IOT Devices	2
IoT-Enabled Real-Time Monitoring System for Plastic Shrinkage of Concrete	2
Investigation on the Dynamic Characteristics of Track Slab with the Influence of Rail Corrugation	2
Regional Evaluation of Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Ground Deformation for City-Scale Transportation Resilience Analysis	2
Spatial Characterization of Strain Variation in the Profile of Tunnel Structure Using Monitoring Data and Numerical Modeling	2
Statistical Data Analysis of the Aging Effect on Time-Dependent Corrosion Rate for Steel Girder Bridges with Concrete Decks	2
Optimizing Locations of Energy Storage Devices and Speed Profiles for Sustainable Urban Rail Transit	2
Spatiotemporal Vulnerability Analysis of Large-Scale Infrastructure Systems under Cascading Failures: Case of Water Distribution Networks	2
Budget-Constrained Rail Electrification Modeling Using Symmetric Traffic Assignment: A North American Case Study	2
Trends, Topics, Leaders, Influential Studies, and Future Challenges of Machine Learning Studies in the Rail Industry	2
Preliminary Development of an ME-Based Wearing Model for the Conductor Rail in MCTS	2
Optimal Bridge Retrofitting Selection for Seismic Risk Management Using Genetic Algorithms and Neural Network–Based Surrogate Models	2
Identifying the Opportunities and Challenges of Project Bundling: Modeling and Discovering Key Patterns Using Unsupervised Machine Learning	2
Impact of Operational and Restoration Interdependencies on Cost and Disruptive Effect in Multilayered Infrastructure Networks	2
Impact of Sectoral Infrastructure on Export and Foreign Direct Investment Inflow: Evidence from Selected South Asian Economies by Applying a New Global Infrastructure Index	2
Novel Index for Vulnerability Assessment of Flexible Pavement Infrastructure to Temperature Rise: Case Study of Developing Countries	2
Heterogeneity-Based Survival Analysis of NBI Condition Ratings for Concrete Highway Bridge Decks in Oregon by Condition Group	2
Operational Risk-Based Decision Making for Wastewater Pipe Management	2
CART Algorithm: A Data-Driven Approach to Automate Maintenance Selection in Pavement Management Systems	2
Resilience Assessment for Streamline Network of Transportation Hub Complex Based on Service Performance	2
Investigating Social Vulnerability, Exposure, and Transport Network Disruption in the Mid-Atlantic Region	2
Integrated Modeling of Tap Water Perception and Consumption of Bottled Water: An Exploratory Analysis	2
Image Processing–Based Framework for Determining Deterioration in Sewer Pipe Defects	2
Efficient Approach for Autonomous Facility Inspection Using UAV Images	2
Modeling and Understanding Dispute Causation in the US Public–Private Partnership Projects	2
Consequence of Failure Modeling for Water Pipeline Infrastructure Using a Hierarchical Ensemble Fuzzy Inference System	2