Isc e newsletter-volume 3-issue 1 final July 2015

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In This Issue
Book Highlight
Member Profile
Technology Highlight
Upcoming Conferences and
Mee ngs
July 2015 Volume 3, Issue 1
Introduc on to Civil Engineering Systems
by Samuel Labi makes a compelling
argument for the use of systems
approaches for the development of civil
engineering infrastructure.
In naviga ng through this text, the reader
will appreciate the various phases of
infrastructure development over their life
cycle; from needs assessment to planning,
design, construc on, opera ons (including
maintenance and monitoring), and
re rement.
The reader is provided with the toolkit
needed to supplement the domain
knowledge such as:
 Modeling and simula on
 Risk and reliability
 Mul ple criteria analysis
 Cost engineering and economic
analysis
 Systems dynamics and real op ons
 Network analysis and decision analysis
This text is interdisciplinary in the sense
that it includes infrastructure systems in
the different disciplines of civil engineering,
including structures, geotechnics,
transporta on, hydraulics, architectural,
and environmental.
Each chapter of this text contains case
studies and analysis of real‐world case
studies. At the end of each chapter,
readers are provided resources for detailed
inves ga on of par cular topics. These
include Internet sites and publica ons of
interna onal and domes c agencies and
research ins tu ons.
Chair of ISC: Susan L. Tighe, PhD, PEng.
University of Waterloo
sl ghe@uwaterloo.ca
Newsle er Chair: Mehmet E. Ozbek, Ph. D.
Colorado State University
mehmet.ozbek@colostate.edu
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Transporta on of Ontario in various roles including two
years as a construc on site engineer, one year as a design
engineer and one year wri ng standards and specifica ons
immediately following her BASc. This background provided
her with an excellent basis to pursue her MASc and PhD
degrees and has provided an excellent founda on for her
current research program. She joined the University of
Waterloo in 2000 and since that me, she has worked on
various research projects related to pavement and asset
management, asphalt and concrete pavement materials,
design, construc on and maintenance.
She is a member of the New College of Scholars of the Royal
Society of Canada. She was named one of Canada's Top 40
Under 40 for her leadership and vision with respect to the
Canadian Transporta on Community in 2006 and was a
2009 recipient of the inaugural 40 Under 40 in the Region of
Waterloo.
She par cipates on various Transporta on Research Board
commi ees and expert task groups, and served as Chair of
the Interna onal Steering commi ee for the 7th and 8th
Interna onal Conference on Managing Pavement Assets.
She is a member of the Transporta on Associa on of
Canada Chief Engineers Council and the Past Chair of the
Transporta on Associa on of Canada Soils and Materials
Standing Commi ee and Transporta on Founda on
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Newsle er features Professor Susan
Tighe, the current Chair of the ISC
commi ee and the Norman W.
McLeod Professor in Sustainable
Pavement Engineering, Founding
Principal and Director of the Centre
for Pavement and Transporta on
Technology (CPATT). Prof. Tighe is
currently a Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at the
University of Waterloo.
Susan L. Tighe, PhD, PEng.

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InfrastructureSystemsCommitteee‐Newsletter Express Lanes ‐ The Crossroads of ITS and Tolls
By Richard Arce‐Execu ve Director &
Chris Garlick‐Project Manager
CAI Tolls Prac ce
Over the last 50 years, the Interstate Highway
System con nues to expand as people le the
metropolitan areas in exchange for a lifestyle with big
houses, and lots of land, and longer commutes. In the
last few years we have seen the return of these
“sprawlers” to ci es in seek of a smaller cost of living
footprint, and reliable and safe commute mes. The
high cost of right of way, shrinking state and federal
budgets, and con nued growth around current
interstates make addi onal widening of these facili es
nearly impossible and very cost prohibi ve. In lieu of
this addi onal expansion, the emergence of express
lanes provides mobility within the exis ng right of way or
with marginal expansion.
There are many examples of successful US express lanes
deployments including I‐85 in Georgia, I‐95 in Florida, I‐
15 in Utah, I‐10 in Houston, and I‐495 in Virginia just to
name a few.
Express Lanes provide numerous advantages including
be er u liza on than exis ng HOV lanes alone, and
guaranteed mobility for a price that can be used to help
repay capitaliza on costs and defray some of the
opera ons and maintenance costs. Addi onally, Express
Lanes are a real life example of Intelligent Transporta on
Systems (ITS) and Toll systems at work together to meet
demand management strategies. ITS and Tolls systems
share similar goals and also share very similar
technologies that can be used to achieve mobility.
ITS and Tolls systems provide traveler informa on in the
form of toll rate informa on, travel informa on, and
travel me on a dynamic message sign. A Tolls customer
may pay in advance of the toll facili es, and that same
dynamic message sign can be used to provide traffic
informa on.
A summary table below illustrates how one technology
can yield mul ple business purposes between ITS and
Toll systems.
Technology Highlight
Express lanes projects are a start to an evolu on to meet
demand management strategies and provide mobility
while significant barriers remain with non‐compa ble
technologies, and a lack of standards between Toll and
ITS systems. In addi on, systems must be designed to
protect driver policy while the transporta on industry
must get to know their road users be er than we do
today including infrequent customers.
Express Lanes will con nue to evolve and be part of the
fabric of mobility solu ons for transporta on. This
methodology is not only meant for US markets but other
countries with capacity and mobility issues who will look
to leverage their ITS and Tolls infrastructure to provide
be er mobility and management of their road
infrastructure.
This is just a beginning, as ITS and Tolls infrastructure
expands to other transporta on services, such as ferries,
buses, rail, and other transporta on op ons to maximize
mobility.
 25th
World Road Congress Seoul, November 2‐6, 2015,
Coex Center, Seoul, Korea; website: h p://
www.piarcseoul2015.org/wrcs/
 Na onal Accelerated Bridge Construc on Conference,
December 7‐8, 2015, Miami, Florida, USA; website:
h p://www.2015abc.fiu.edu
 6th
European Transport Research Conference Moving
Forward: Innova ve Solu ons for Tomorrow's
Mobility, April 18‐21, 2016, Warsaw, Poland; website:
h p://www.traconference.eu
 Interna onal Conference on Transporta on &
Development, June 26‐29, 2016, Houston, Texas, USA;
website: h p://www.asce‐ictd.org
 8th
Interna onal Conference on Maintenance &
Rehabilita on of Pavements, July 27‐29, 2016,
Singapore; website: h p://www.mairepav8.org
Upcoming Conferences and Mee ngs
Technology ITS purpose Tolls purpose
Dynamic
message sign
Traveler
Informa on
Display toll
rates
Vehicle density
device
Incident
detec on and/or
level of service
Determine toll
rates
Plate
iden fica on
and recogni on
Origin‐
Des na on
informa on
Revenue
recogni on
and payment