Highways and in particular their pavements are the fundamental components of the road network. They require continuous maintenance since they deteriorate due to changing traffic and environmental conditions. Monitoring methods and efficient pavement management systems are needed for optimizing maintenance operations. Pavement performance prediction models are useful tools for determining the op...

In recent years, the application of Activity-Based Costing in Port industry has been deeply researched in theory and practice, but researchers only concentrate on the bulk and general cargo’s ABC in loading and unloading operations and there is little about the liquids and chemicals’. Based on the liquids and chemicals’ handling process and the particularity of their cost accounting, the paper ...

Effective highway maintenance depends on several activities, including the understanding of current and the prediction of future pavement conditions and deciding how to best allocate limited resources for maintenance operations. In this paper, a dynamic micro-level simulation model of highway deterioration and renewal processes is presented. This model is calibrated with data from eight road se...

Given the large expenditures on capital equipment characteristic of mining, technology developers and users alike place a very high priority on improving equipment productivity. Proper maintenance is essential to maximizing both availability and productivity. At the same time, maintenance services are a major cost element of all mine operations.1 Accordingly, after process optimization, equipme...

A set of technical, administrative and management activities are done in the life cycle of equipment, to be located in good condition and have proper and expected functioning. This is refers to be, maintenance management system (MMS). The framework and models of assessment in order to enhance effectiveness of a MMS could be proposed in two categories: qualitative and quantitative. In this resea...