Istanbul Workshop
International Workshop on Performance-based Infrastructure Asset Management
ITU MACKA Facilities Istanbul, 6-9 July 2008
Hosted by Istanbul Technical University
Supported by US-NSF, USDOT-FHWA, Turkish Infrastructure Agencies and Agencies from Canada, EC, Japan and Switzerland
7 July 2008 (Monday) DAY 1;
Paradigms and Concepts Underpinning PBIAM: Infrastructures and Sustainability: Where are we today?
Economic and Engineering Considerations:
- Policy, Planning, Financing and Revenue (Meyer)
- Lifecycle Benefit/Cost in Transportation (Frangopol)
- State-of-the-practice in Multi-hazards Considerations for Asset Management (Yen)
Societal Considerations:
Ecological Considerations:
- Sustainability and Infrastructures (Montalto) “Why there are really no asset management research needs?!?!” (Gurian)
Infrastructures and Sustainability: Vision for Future
- Resilience and Sustainability of Infrastructure Assets through Risk-Based Adaptive Incremental Revolution (Haimes)
- European Research on Sustainability and PBIM (Wenzel)
- Japanese Research on Health Monitoring of Sustainable Infrastructures (Fujino)
- Lifecycle engineering aspects of the Bosphorus Tube Crossing (Lykke)
PANEL DISCUSSIONS:
- Presentation and discussion of Straw-Person Ontology (Ontology Committee)
- Necessary elements of an international research agenda as inspired by the presentations (Drs. Catbas and Ghandehari)
July 2008 DAY 2 – 9:00 AM
PBIAM: Current State of Applications and Research Needs
- Asset Management in the USA (Ghasemi)
- Asset Management in the Netherlands (Klatter)
- Asset Management in Japan (Kaneuji)
- The Canadian perspective on Asset Management (Wade)
- PBIAM Experience on Alpine Motorways in Italy (Mordini)
- Planning for the Turkish Highway Infrastructure of 2050 (Ertas)
- Critical Arteries of Istanbul’s Transportation Infrastructure and Management Needs (TBA)
Progress Report on Workshop Objectives...
