Highway development decision-making under uncertainty: A real options approach

Journal of Infrastructure Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-32

  Zhao, Tong ^a   Sundararajan, Satheesh K ^a   Tseng, Chung Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Facility expansion; Highway construction; Highway design; Monte Carlo method; Regression analysis; Rehabilitation; Stochastic models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DETERIORATION; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

INTERDEPENDENCE; LEAST-SQUARES REGRESSION;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 1942538239     PISSN: 10760342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0342(2004)10:1(23)     Document Type: Article

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