Decision-making for Large-scale Bridge Maintenance: Designing a Decision Support System for determining which bridges should be renewed simultaneously and with what strategy, using Amsterdam as a case study

Delayed maintenance is a major issue in Europe, including the Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam recently started a large-scale maintenance project to renew (renovate or replace) many bridges: an issue that other cities will have to face soon. Decision-making for bridge programming (deciding which bridges should be renewed simultaneously using...

Developing a decision-making framework to deal with MR&R challenges in a fit-for-purpose manner

Historical developments and innovations in the field of civil engineering contributed to the state-of-the- art structures that shape our transportation infrastructure network nowadays. By way of contrast, solving the mobility issues of the past, created a challenge in terms of conservation today as many assets are reaching the end of their...

Asset Aggregation: Structuring condition data for decision-making

One of the many challenges in infrastructure management lies in managing built assets. Managing means repairing, rehabilitating and replacing assets to ensure they are able to safely fulfill their functions. To manage infrastructure assets, detailed information about the condition of all components of the asset is required to make substantiated...

Collaborative Servitization: Designing a decision support model for matching asset owners and manufacturers to enact collaborative servitization in the Dutch maritime industry