5th Symposium on Infrastructure Asset Management

PROGRAM OVERVIEW (detailed program below)

DETAILED PROGRAM

Presenter's names are in bold. 

Saturday March 16

5th Floor Design Studio, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales

8:30am Coffee, pastries, and fruit

9:00am Opening Session

Welcome 

• Sue McNeil and Professor Taha Hossein Rashidi, Director of rCITI, University of New South Wales

The ARC Research Hub for Resilient and Intelligent Infrastructure Systems  

• Professor Nasser Khalili, Head, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales

Attendee self introductions

10:00am  Break - Coffee

10:30am Session 1: Sustainability and Resilience

The Sustainable Investment Decision-making (SIDM) Transformation of Scottish Water: Year 3

• Bryan T. Adey, Simon Parsons, Rachael Picken, Sean Anderson, Richard Beaumont,  ETH Zuirch

Leveraging Crowdsourced Location Data and Time Decomposition Analysis to Quantify Trip Resilience 

• Francisco Contreras and Cristina Torres-Machi, Univ. Colorado Boulder

Building Resilience in the Potable Water Infrastructure Sector Through Collective Governance 

• Nader Naderpajouh, University of Sydney

12:15pm Lunch

1:15pm Session 2: Risk and Failure 

Risk Modelling of Road Disruption Caused by Rainfall-Induced Cut-Slope Failure

• Alondra Chamorro 1,3, Manuel Contreras-Jara 1,3, Tomás Echaveguren 2,3, Carlos Pattillo 3, Marta Contreras 1,3, Cristóbal Solar 2 

1 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2 Universidad de Concepción, 3 Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN)

Predicting Mountain Stream Collapse Areas Using LP Point Cloud Data based on Graph Neural 

• Zhuming Kou, Osaka University; Taichi Ishikawa, University of Tokyo; Kotaro Sasai, Osaka University; and Kiyoyuki Kaito, Osaka University; Hirofumi Hisada, West Nippon Expressway Company LimitedNetworks

Navigating Infrastructure Interdependencies: The 3C-Method for Optimized Intervention Planning

• Maria Nogal, Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, and Alan O'Connor, School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

3:00pm Break – Coffee

3:30pm Session 3: Managing Infrastructure and Adverse Events

Effects of flooding of Bridges and Tunnels on Mobility in New York City

• Samer Madanat (NYU), Ilia Papakonstantinou (NYUAD), Alain Tcheukam (NYUAD)

Optimizing Valley Dam Management amidst Incomplete Usage and Modeling Community Migratory Patterns Using a Gravity Model

• Felix Obunguta, Osaka University; Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kyoto University; Kiyoyuki Kaito, Osaka University; Kotaro Sasai, Osaka University 

Evaluating Wildfire Evacuation Vulnerability: A Case Study of Municipalities in California

• Dongju Ka, Seoul National University; Sungyong Chung, Seoul National University; Koohong Chung, Ajou University; Chungwon Lee, Seoul National University; Jinwoo Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

5:00pm Adjourn

7:00pm Symposium Dinner - Barzura - 62 Carr St Coogee Beach NSW 2034 

Sunday March 17

5th Floor Design Studio, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales

8:30am Coffee, pastries, and fruit

9:00am Session 4: Decision-Making Part I

Incorporating Economies of Scale in Top-Down Pavement Management System

• Meet Saiya (AECOM India Global Services Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India) and Aditya Medury (IIT Kanpur)

A Framework for Matching Decision Support Tools to Infrastructure Asset Management Decision Scenarios: An Exploration of Network Properties

• Babatunde Atolagbe, University of Delaware;  Sue McNeil, University of Delaware and University of New South Wales

A Macroscopic Cost Function Approach for Network-Level Long-Term Pavement Management Planning

• Yuto Nakazato, Daijiro Mizutani, and Takeshi Nagae

10:30am Break - Coffee

11:00am Session 5: Material Behavior to Models

Capturing non-linear responses of unbound materials with the LWD

• Adrian Ricardo Archilla, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa

Evaluation of Repair Effects on Highway Pavement Layers based on Recovery and Deterioration Heterogeneity

• Kotaro Sasai, Osaka University; Kiyoyuki Kaito, Osaka University; Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kyoto University; Kazutaka Suzuki, Nippon Expressway Company Limited; Keizo Kamiya, Central Nippon Expressway Company Limited; Yusei Nii, Osaka University

Infrastructure Deterioration Modeling and Intervention Optimization with an Inhomogeneous Markov Chain: A Latent State Approach

• Daijiro Mizutani, Tohoku University, Arnold Yuan, Toronto Metropolitan University, Yuto Nakazato, Tohoku University

12:30pm Lunch

1:30pm Session 6: Sustainability, Climate Change and the Environment

Deploying Service Networks to Support Freight Rail Decarbonization:  Flow Selection, Facility Location, and Energy Sourcing

• Adrian Hernandez, Pablo L. Durango-Cohen, Hani S. Mahmassani (Northwestern University)

A Multi-Period Optimization Model for Deployment of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure at Expressway Service Areas

• An Fu, and James C. Chu, National Taiwan University

Tackling Climate Change by Incorporating Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas (GHS) Emissions into Infrastructure Management Systems

• Susan Tighe, McMaster University

3:00pm Break – Coffee

3:30pm Session 7: Decision-Making Part II

An Analytically Solvable Model for the Multi-Asset Multi-Intervention Planning Problem

• Craig Richmond, ETH Zürich; Jinwoo Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Optimizing Federal Grant Matching Programs with State/Local Projects to Support Infrastructure Finance

• Samuel Labi, Deepak Benny, and Saeel Pai, Purdue University

4:30pm Informal Discussion 

What did we learn?  What are the opportunities to advance infrastructure asset management? 

5:00pm Adjourn

7:00pm Optional Dinner Cruise Sydney Harbour - Leaves from King Street Wharf