Modeling fund allocation to water main rehabilitation projects

Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 646-655

  Mohamed, Elsayed ^a   Zayed, Tarek ^b  

^a SNC LAVALIN INC   (Canada)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

AHP; Fund allocation; MAUT; Model; Water mains

Indexed keywords

AHP; FUND ALLOCATION; MAUT; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE UTILITY THEORY; QUALITATIVE DATA; REHABILITATION PROJECTS; REPLACEMENT COSTS; WATER MAINS;

MODELS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERWORKS;

COSTS;

EID: 84884641923     PISSN: 08873828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0000353     Document Type: Article

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