Road maintenance optimization through a discrete-time semi-Markov decision process

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 103, Issue , 2012, Pages 110-119

  Zhang, Xueqing ^a   Gao, Hui ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Asset management; Infrastructure; Optimization; Road maintenance; Semi Markov process

Indexed keywords

DECISION PROCESS; FINITE PLANNING HORIZON; HOLDING TIME; INFRASTRUCTURE; LIFECYCLE COSTS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; MAINTENANCE ACTION; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MARKOV PROPERTY; OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE POLICIES; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; REAL TIME; RENEWAL PROCESS; RENEWAL THEORY; ROAD MAINTENANCE; ROAD NETWORK; ROAD SEGMENTS; SEMI MARKOV PROCESS; SEMI-MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; STATE TRANSITIONS; STATIONARY POLICY;

ASSET MANAGEMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DETERIORATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; ROADS AND STREETS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 84860296653     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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