An expert system for assessing the technical and economic risk of pipe rehabilitation options
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Highlights：
• Investment in ageing infrastructure is a significant societal challenge.
• Cast iron pipes still constitute a significant portion of many water networks and various technologies are available to rehabilitate them.
• Under certain circumstances, trenchless renovation can be considered a prudent option, as can the use of trenchless replacement.
• Diffusion of such innovations in the USA is lagging in comparison to other countries.
• An expert system has thus been developed to facilitate asset managers to make risk appropriate selection of rehabilitation technologies.
摘要
•Investment in ageing infrastructure is a significant societal challenge.•Cast iron pipes still constitute a significant portion of many water networks and various technologies are available to rehabilitate them.•Under certain circumstances, trenchless renovation can be considered a prudent option, as can the use of trenchless replacement.•Diffusion of such innovations in the USA is lagging in comparison to other countries.•An expert system has thus been developed to facilitate asset managers to make risk appropriate selection of rehabilitation technologies.
论文关键词：Decision support tools,Asset management,Infrastructure investments,Risk assessment,Innovation diffusion
论文评审过程：Received 22 April 2014, Revised 10 July 2015, Accepted 11 July 2015, Available online 17 July 2015, Version of Record 29 August 2015.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.07.020
