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A New Generation Of Multi-Functional Asphalt Mixtures With Superhydrophobic And Luminescent Properties, Mostafa Elseifi, Md. T. A. Sarkar

Publications

Every year, the United States invests billions of dollars in maintaining its roads and enhancing road safety, especially during severe weather conditions. Challenges such as flooding, snow, ice formation, and low visibility significantly affect road infrastructure and safety. The aim of this study was to develop a novel approach to create a new generation of multifunctional asphalt surfaces with enhanced water repellency and luminescent properties. To achieve this objective, two types of asphalt emulsions (BC-1HT and CSS-1H), one type of superhydrophobic nanomaterial (PTFE), and one SMA mix design were evaluated through various laboratory tests. These tests included scanning electron microscopy …

Exploring Older Adults’ Mobility Challenges And Preferences Before And After Experiencing Covid-19 Pandemic, Hany Hassan, Bernard Boakye

Publications

The US Census Bureau reports that the number of seniors (65+ years old) in the US is predicted to increase from 16.5% in 2019 to 22% by 2050. However, seniors have reduced mobility as they age due to their declining health and the limited travel options available. Therefore, it is crucial to solve their transportation needs during pandemics like COVID-19 when they are most disadvantaged. This study involved an online national survey that collected 1507 responses from seniors in all the 50 US states to examine their travel behavior and challenges and their willingness to adopt Autonomous Vehicles before and …

Eco-Driving Of Connected And Autonomous Vehicles Approaching And Departing Signalized Intersections, Xiangyu Meng, Tonmoy Sarkar

Publications

Eco-driving is a driving strategy that focuses on reducing fuel consumption, carbon emissions, and improving passenger comfort through the implementation of safe and anticipatory driving strategies. One method to improve eco-driving in autonomous vehicles is the optimal control approach, which utilizes ‘Signal Phase and Time’ (SPaT) information to determine an energy-efficient trajectory for vehicles approaching and departing signalized intersections. Camera-based vision systems and deep learning techniques can be implemented to recognize the traffic signal head and its phase information, further enabling the vehicle to adapt its driving patterns for improved fuel efficiency and reduced emissions. This report reviews advancements in …

Decoding The Tapestry Of Road Safety: A Comprehensive Exploration Of Safety Restraints, Seat Positions, And Collision Type Interactions Using Traditional And Random Parameter Modeling, Muthumari Anbumani, Srinivas S. Pulugurtha

Kentucky Transportation Center Presentations

No abstract provided.

Pipeline For Fast Digital Twin Development And Integration In Driving Simulation, Zhanqian Wu, Luying Zhang, Jaime Hernandez, Chase Leibowitz, Helen Loeb, Xiaoxia Dong, Erick Guerra, Rahul Mangharam

Kentucky Transportation Center Presentations

The use of digital mapping with precise GPS coordinates has allowed intelligent navigation, which is now ubiquitous in vehicles. The flat 2D imagery provided by Google maps was recently enhanced by the introduction of dynamic 3D representations of the Earth. Unity3D and Unreal Games Engines now offer Application Programming Interfaces that can be leveraged for geospatial applications. This technology, which offers visually compelling results for flight simulation and drone applications, opens new opportunities for driving simulation.This paper presents an innovative approach for developing a drivable Digital Twin of Philadelphia’s Roosevelt Boulevard to enhance urban planning and traffic management using advanced …

Leveraging Technology For Safer Roads For Vulnerable Road Users In South Africa, Ntombifuthi Ngobeni, Busisiwe Marole, Koketso Bosilong, Hlulani Nkuna

Kentucky Transportation Center Presentations

This research aims to enhance road safety, particularly for Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and cyclists, through the use of both cutting-edge technologies and consideration of conventional engineering methods and solutions. The study focuses on innovative solutions related to the road environment and their impact on VRU safety, piloted at selected sites in South Africa. The research investigates the use of technologies such as video cameras, video analysis software, artificial intelligence and machine learning to conduct route risk assessments. These assessments inform the selection and implementation of effective safety measures tailored to enhance VRU safety. By understanding the …

Development Of Innovative Flocculation Technologies For Agricultural Water Treatment, Noor Haleem

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The development of innovative flocculation technologies is essential for addressing the challenges of agricultural water treatment. These technologies play a crucial role in removing contaminants such as suspended solids and nutrients, thereby ensuring safer water for irrigation and livestock consumption. By enhancing water quality and wastewater management, they contribute significantly to environmental sustainability and public health in agricultural communities. This comprehensive thesis extensively explores various dimensions of flocculation, with a focused effort on methodologies and resources aimed at strengthening sustainability and efficiency. A pivotal aspect of the research involves synthesizing cationic starch (CS), a flocculant derived from an underutilized resource, …

Trends And Opportunities For Material Information Sharing: Applying Bim To Support Supply Chain Management In Construction Projects, Seog Jae Choi, Fernanda Leite

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Due to dynamic organizations and unexpected conditions on project sites, the construction industry has suffered from schedule and cost overruns. Researchers have applied building information modeling (BIM) and supply chain management (SCM) concepts to integrate diverse stakeholders, and further, improve efficiency in construction projects. BIM can support supply chain integration (SCI) by providing reliable up-to-date information on a project, which reduces resource waste and completes the project as planned. Specifically, sharing updated material information, including the state of material fabrication, current location, each material's due date on site, and site inventory status, is crucial for successful project execution because such …

Lead Bioaccessibility And Commonly Measured Soil Characteristics (Detroit, Mi, Usa) – Phase 1, Sabrina R. Good, Allison R. Harris, Patrick Crouch, Conor T. Gowan, William D. Shuster, Shawn P. Mcelmurry

Open Data at Wayne State

Contaminated urban soil is one of the major contributors to child Pb exposure. To gain a better understanding of Pb risk in urban areas, composite samples were collected from 142 residential, privately owned, parcels in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park, Michigan, with approval from the property owners. The proximity of soil sampling and former smelter locations were also reported. Sample were collected from areas covered with turf grass. Four samples were collected, one from each cardinal direction (north, south, east, and west), 20 cm from an aluminum tent stake driven into the center of the sampling site. Soils were collected …

Scenario Analysis Of Drinking Water Infrastructure Rightsizing In Flint, Michigan: Model Pipe Conditions, Richard Casey Sadler, Hyun Jeong Koo, Basheer Allamy, Shawn P. Mcelmurry

Open Data at Wayne State

Sustainable urban systems require appropriately sized infrastructure. However, when cities face economic and population decline, hardened infrastructure - such as drinking water distribution systems – is difficult and costly to modify. This dataset provides the results of a modeling exercise performed using EPANET (Version 2.2) to examine potential scenarios for rightsizing water infrastructure in a shrinking city. The modeling was performed utilizing a full-scale, calibrated hydraulic model of the drinking water distribution system in Flint, Michigan obtained through a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Flint and Wayne State University.

For this analysis, in addition to a base model, …

Scenario Analysis Of Drinking Water Infrastructure Rightsizing In Flint, Michigan: Model Census Tract Results, Richard Casey Sadler, Hyun Jeong Koo, Basheer Allamy, Shawn P. Mcelmurry

Open Data at Wayne State

Sustainable urban systems require appropriately sized infrastructure. However, when cities face economic and population decline, hardened infrastructure - such as drinking water distribution systems – is difficult and costly to modify. This dataset provides the results of a modeling exercise performed using EPANET (Version 2.2) to examine potential scenarios for rightsizing water infrastructure in a shrinking city. The modeling was performed utilizing a full-scale, calibrated hydraulic model of the drinking water distribution system in Flint, Michigan obtained through a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Flint and Wayne State University.

For this analysis, in addition to a base model, …

Safety Evaluation Of 2+1 Roadway Design, Kenneth R. Agent, Jeff Jasper

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

An assessment and analysis of the safety of 2+1 roads introduced in 2013 and later.

Predicting Motorcycle Crash Injury Severity In Utah: Utilizing Machine Learning Methods, Isaac Baah, Milan Zlatkovic, Mohamed M. Ahmed

Kentucky Transportation Center Presentations

No abstract provided.

Accurate Knowledge Of Roadway Horizontal And Vertical Alignment Is Essential, Bekir Bartin, Mojibulrahman Jami, Kaan Ozbay

Kentucky Transportation Center Presentations

No abstract provided.

Performance Reliability And Safety Index For Region Vii Highways, Aemal J. Khattak, Mm Shakiul Haque, Li Zhao

Mid-America Transportation Center: Final Reports and Technical Briefs

Roadway performance measures are used for operating, planning, and design purposes to improve services for road users. Simple statistics of the performance metrics such as measures of central tendency (e.g., mean, median) are often used for making operational and planning decisions. Even though such statistics are useful, they are, more than often, not comprehensive enough for making insightful operational and planning decisions. Consequently, performance reliability measures, which attempt to capture the day-to-day variability in performance, have the potential to benefit the areas of operation, planning, and design. Traffic data from Intelligent Transportation System facilitates the measurement of the reliability of …

Economic, Environmental, And Social Characteristics Of E-Scooters On Lsu Campus, Mostafa Elseifi, Md Afif Rahman Chowdhury

Data

This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of e-scooter technology, with a focus on its environmental, economic, and social impacts, particularly within university settings at the Louisiana State University (LSU) campus. A life-cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted to assess the environmental sustainability of e-scooters, encompassing all stages from raw materials acquisition to end-of-life. The analysis determined that the total CO₂ emissions for an e-scooter over a five-year lifespan were approximately 389 kg, with significant reductions possible by improving the lifespan of e-scooters, integrating recycled materials, and utilizing renewable energy sources for charging batteries. The study also compared the environmental and …

Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Analysis And Discovery, Payton Maddaloni

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.

Fluorotelomer Carboxylic Acid Degradation: Implications For Septic Systems, Alexis Marie Eaton

Honors Theses and Capstones

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a group of manmade organic chemicals that have been widely used since the 1940’s due to their resistance to heat, water, and oil. These compounds are associated with negative health outcomes including poor thyroid function, reproductive toxicity, and carcinogenicity. Because products with PFAS are widely used in residential settings, and because many PFAS do not completely degrade during wastewater treatment/handling, septic systems may be an important non-point source of PFAS to groundwater. Many homes that have septic systems, which discharge wastewater effluent to the subsurface, also use groundwater as a drinking water source; …

Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Analysis And Discovery, Payton Summer Maddaloni

Honors Theses and Capstones

This poster encompasses yearlong literary research into floating offshore wind turbines. Limitations created by society are discussed, these have prohibited large leaps to get the turbines out of the design phase. Traditional platform designs are displayed to show the potential the industry has to offer as the next renewable energy source. The maintenance phase seeks optimization. A case study by the University of Cincinnati used production losses as a consideration to lower the total cost of traditionally expensive maintenance. Finally, the end-of-life scenarios are currently being overlooked by developers. This opens the door to multiple options for disposal. Mimicking the …

Low-Shrinkage Fiber-Reinforced Concrete For Infrastructure Construction And Rehabilitation, Jingjie Wei

Doctoral Dissertations

"The aim of this study is to develop two classes of low-shrinkage high-performance concrete (HPC): fiber-reinforced super workable concrete (FR-SWC) for infrastructure construction and fiber-reinforced self-consolidating concrete (FR-SCC) for repair applications. HPC with excess content of shrinkage mitigation materials (SMMs), including shrinkage-reducing admixture (SRA), superabsorbent polymer (SAP), and expansive agent (EA) has a detrimental effect on mechanical performance. These classes of HPC were optimized to reduce shrinkage, enhance mechanical properties, and improve durability. The effect of fiber type (macro synthetic fiber, MSF; 5D steel fiber, 5D; 80% 3D + 20% short steel fibers; STST), SMMs, and plastic viscosity on bond …

Investigation Of Wide Beam And Interfacial Shear Transfer In Reinforced Concrete Structures, Nikkolas Edgmond

Doctoral Dissertations

"The use of reinforced concrete (RC) allows for unique designs of structural elements and connections because of the ability to vary the geometry and reinforcement detailing with ease. However, this freedom in the design process can lead to specialized conditions that have not been extensively studied by means of experimental testing. This is especially true for components or regions of components that are subjected to high shear loads, which are susceptible to undesirable and brittle failures. While many studies have been conducted to investigate the shear behavior of RC structural members and components to determine the critical design parameters, these …

Energy Management And Sizing Of A Stand-Alone Hybrid Renewable Energy System For Community Electricity, Fresh Water, And Cooking Gas Demands Of A Remote Island, Mim M. Ahmed, Barun K. Das, Pronob Das, Md S. Hossain, Md G. Kibria

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Research into the off-grid hybrid energy system to provide reliable electricity to a remote community has extensively been done. However, simultaneous meeting electric, freshwater, and gas demands from the off-grid hybrid energy sources are very scarce in literature. Power- to-X (PtX) is gaining attention in recent days in the energy transition scenarios to generate green hydrogen, the primary product of the process as an energy carrier, which is deemed to replace conventional fuels to reach absolute carbon neutrality. In this study, renewable–based hybrid energy is developed to simultaneously meet the electricity, freshwater, and gas (cooking gas via methanation process) demands …

Recent Advances In Surface Tailoring Of Thin Film Forward Osmosis Membranes: A Review, Javad Farahbakhsh, Mitra Golgoli, Mehdi Khiadani, Mohadeseh Najafi, Wafa Suwaileh, Amir Razmjou, Masoumeh Zargar

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The recent advancements in fabricating forward osmosis (FO) membranes have shown promising results in desalination and water treatment. Different methods have been applied to improve FO performance, such as using mixed or new draw solutions, enhancing the recovery of draw solutions, membrane modification, and developing FO-hybrid systems. However, reliable methods to address the current issues, including reverse salt flux, fouling, and antibacterial activities, are still in progress. In recent decades, surface modification has been applied to different membrane processes, including FO membranes. Introducing nanochannels, bioparticles, new monomers, and hydrophilic-based materials to the surface layer of FO membranes has significantly impacted …

Integrated Building Assessment To Enable Retrofit Design, Fabrication And Verification: A Drone-Based Approach, Paul Crovella

SyracuseCoE

Buildings account for approximately 40% of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. In New York State, approximately 80% of residential and commercial buildings were constructed before the emerging energy codes in the 1970s [1]. Therefore, there is a significant need for affordable and scalable building retrofit solutions with low embodied emissions to meet the targets in the NYS Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019. A building energy audit is the initial step to quantify a building's energy performance and reveal its energy-saving potential. However, performing a high-level energy audit requires detailed field analysis and is often …

Optimizing Anaerobic Digestion Of Food Waste And Industrial Sludge For Biogas Production, Emma R. Murray

Honors College Theses

Food waste is a major contributor to municipal solid waste, and its disposal at landfills has significant environmental and economic impacts. Opportunities need to be identified for the sustainable management of food waste at large scales. Pulp and paper mills throughout the country commonly use anaerobic digestion to treat their waste sludge; however, this sludge can consist of over 50% lignin, which is slowly or negligibly digested. This research aims to explore the sustainability of co-digestion of food waste and paper mill sludge. Lab-scale studies were used to assess the feasibility of anaerobic digestion by measuring treatment efficiencies and biogas …

Development Of Regional Severity-Duration-Frequency (Sdf) Curves In Cambodia Using Standardized Precipitation Index (Spi), Sophanny Phan

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Drought is one of the most destructive natural hazards that causes scarcity and lack of water in hydrological basins and impacts economic, social, and environmental system. This study aims to develop Severity-Duration-Frequency (SDF) curves to provide a comprehensive characterization of droughts in the Lower Mekong River Basin in Cambodia from 1985 to 2022. A Bayesian bias correction technique was applied to improve reanalysis rainfall data from ERA-5, resulting in enhanced accuracy which evidenced by an 11% increase in correlation coefficients (R), a 9% improvement in Nash-Sutcliff efficiency (NSE), and a 45% reduction in RMSE. The corrected rainfall data were then …

การประยุกต์อุปกรณ์ล็อกยึดต้านแผ่นดินไหวสำหรับทางรถไฟยกระดับในประเทศไทย, ศิริวัฒน์ บุญญาภิสมภาร

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

โครงสร้างพื้นฐานด้านการคมนาคมมีบทบาทสำคัญอย่างมากในการพัฒนาประเทศ ปัจจุบันประเทศไทยได้มีการพัฒนาโครงการทางคมนาคมหลายรูปแบบ โดยหนึ่งในโครงการที่น่าสนใจคือการก่อสร้างทางรถไฟยกระดับ ถึงแม้ว่าไทยจะไม่ได้ตั้งอยู่ในเขตแผ่นดินไหวโดยตรง แต่แรงสั่นสะเทือนจากแผ่นดินไหวสามารถส่งผลกระทบต่อโครงสร้างและต้นทุนค่าก่อสร้าง งานวิจัยฉบับนี้มุ่งเน้นการศึกษาอุปกรณ์ล็อกยึด (Lock-Up Device, LUD) ในโครงสร้างทางรถไฟยกระดับแบบต่อเนื่อง 3 ช่วง ช่วงละ 35 เมตร โดยมีความสูงของเสาตอม่อ 20 เมตร และถูกออกแบบให้รองรับรถไฟประเภท U20 สำหรับการทำงานของ LUD คือการล็อกการเคลื่อนที่ของโครงสร้างเมื่อเกิดแรงกระทำที่ทำให้โครงสร้างเคลื่อนที่ด้วยความเร็วสูง เช่น แรงแผ่นดินไหว หรือแรงเบรกของขบวนรถไฟขณะที่ปล่อยให้โครงสร้างเคลื่อนที่อย่างอิสระภายใต้แรงกระทำที่มีความเร็วต่ำ เช่น การเปลี่ยนแปลงอุณหภูมิหรือแรงคืบของวัสดุ โดยทำการพิจารณาแผ่นดินไหวตามมาตรฐาน มยผ. (มาตรฐานการออกแบบอาคารต้านทานแผ่นดินไหวของประเทศไทย) ผลการศึกษาพบว่าการติดตั้งอุปกรณ์ล็อกยึด สามารถช่วยกระจายแรงแผ่นดินไหวจากเสาตอม่อแบบ Fixed ไปยังเสาตอม่อแบบ Roller ทำให้โครงสร้างมีความสามารถต้านทานแรงแผ่นดินไหวได้ดียิ่งขึ้น นอกจากนี้ LUD ยังช่วยลดปริมาณเหล็กเสริมในเสาตอม่อส่งผลให้สามารถลดต้นทุนในการก่อสร้างได้ อีกทั้งชี้ให้เห็นว่า LUD มีประสิทธิภาพในการเพิ่มความสามารถในการต้านทานแรงแผ่นดินไหวอย่างมีนัยสำคัญ

การประยุกต์ใช้ปัญญาประดิษฐ์เพื่อสนับสนุนกระบวนการบริหารงานเหล็กเสริมในโครงการก่อสร้าง, ภูมิพัฒน์ เดชชัย

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การบริหารจัดการเหล็กเสริมในงานก่อสร้างอย่างแม่นยำเป็นองค์ประกอบสำคัญของการเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพโครงการและลดการสูญเสียวัสดุที่ไม่จำเป็น งานวิจัยนี้นำเสนอการพัฒนาระบบอัตโนมัติที่ผสานการทำงานของแบบจำลองสารสนเทศอาคาร (BIM), อัลกอริทึมการเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพด้วยภาษา Python และเทคโนโลยีคอมพิวเตอร์วิทัศน์ เพื่อสนับสนุนการบริหารจัดการเหล็กเสริมในขั้นตอนต่าง ๆ อย่างเป็นระบบ ตั้งแต่การถอดปริมาณ การวางแผนการตัดเหล็ก การตรวจนับเหล็กก่อนเก็บในคลัง และการตรวจสอบการติดตั้งก่อนเทคอนกรีต โดยใช้โมเดล YOLOv8 และ YOLOv8-seg ในการตรวจจับและจำแนกเหล็กเสริมจากภาพถ่ายภาคสนาม ผลลัพธ์จากการตรวจสอบถูกนำมาเปรียบเทียบกับข้อมูลจากแบบจำลองโครงสร้าง 3 มิติเพื่อประเมินความสอดคล้อง และวิเคราะห์รูปแบบการตัดเหล็กเพื่อให้เกิดเศษวัสดุน้อยที่สุดภายใต้ข้อจำกัดของความยาวเหล็กที่มีจำหน่ายในท้องตลาด ระบบที่พัฒนาขึ้นแสดงให้เห็นถึงศักยภาพของการใช้เทคโนโลยีอัตโนมัติเพื่อสนับสนุนการตัดสินใจและลดข้อผิดพลาดจากแรงงานคน พร้อมทั้งสามารถนำไปประยุกต์ใช้ในสภาพแวดล้อมจริงของสถานที่ก่อสร้างได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ

แพลตฟอร์มดิจิทัลที่ใช้การจำลองสารสนเทศอาคารสำหรับวางแผนและดำเนินการโครงการปรับปรุงอาคารที่มีอยู่ให้ได้รับการรับรองมาตรฐาน Leed, เพ็ญกัญญา ไพศาลเกียรติกุล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

อาคารที่มีอยู่มักจะส่งผลกระทบต่อสิ่งแวดล้อมเป็นอย่างมาก โดยเฉพาะช่วงดำเนินการและบำรุงรักษาอาคาร (operation and maintenance, O&M) ซึ่งมีการปล่อยคาร์บอนและใช้ทรัพยากรอย่างต่อเนื่อง การปรับปรุงให้เป็นอาคารเขียว (green retrofitting) เป็นแนวทางสำคัญในการเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพการใช้พลังงาน ลดผลกระทบต่อสิ่งแวดล้อม และยกระดับคุณภาพชีวิตของผู้ใช้งานอาคาร งานวิจัยนี้พัฒนาแพลตฟอร์มดิจิทัลซึ่งใช้การจำลองสารสนเทศอาคาร (building information modeling, BIM) เพื่อรวบรวมและแสดงข้อมูลที่จำเป็นสำหรับวางแผนและดำเนินการโครงการปรับปรุงอาคารที่มีอยู่ให้เป็นอาคารเขียวตามมาตรฐาน LEED V4.0 O+M แพลตฟอร์มดิจิทัลนี้ประกอบด้วย 4 มอดูลหลัก ได้แก่ 1) มอดูลจัดเตรียมข้อมูลจากแบบจำลอง BIM และแหล่งข้อมูลอื่น ๆ 2) มอดูลวิเคราะห์เครดิต LEED เพื่อสนับสนุนการตัดสินใจ 3) มอดูลวางแผนและควบคุมโครงการโดยติดตามสถานะเครดิตและเอกสาร และ 4) มอดูลรายงานและแสดงผลเพื่อสนับสนุนการดำเนินโครงการ แพลตฟอร์มนี้จะสามารถช่วยที่ปรึกษาอาคารเขียว ผู้จัดการโครงการ และเจ้าของโครงการในกระบวนการวางแผนและดำเนินงาน โดยผู้ร่วมโครงการทุกคนจะทำงานบนฐานข้อมูลเดียวกัน ทุกฝ่ายจะเข้าใจบทบาทและกิจกรรมที่ต้องดำเนินการในแต่ละช่วงของโครงการอย่างชัดเจน นอกจากนั้นแพลตฟอร์มยังช่วยจัดการข้อมูลอย่างเป็นระบบและมีประสิทธิภาพ เพื่อเพิ่มโอกาสในการบรรลุเป้าหมายความยั่งยืนตามมาตรฐาน LEED V4.0 O+M

Modelling Of Competing Compensation And Excess Revenue Sharing In Project-Based Ppp Contracts: Machine Learning And Real Option Approaches, Lykeang Sorin

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Public Private Partnership (PPP) is now considered as a very common approach for the delivery of infrastructure projects, especially in developing countries in which fiscal budgets are limited. Most PPP projects are usually implemented as project-based, connecting existing infrastructure projects. However, transportation infrastructure projects as a whole work as a network of systems such as highway systems and mass rail transit (MRT) systems. Currently, the project-based approach to PPP implementation has created two unintended consequences: (1) fragmentation of the systems and (2) non-compete clause in PPP contracts preventing new development that may affect the future revenues of the concessionaire. The …