The recent progress in Information and Communication Technology and the ubiquity of smart devices have revolutionised transportation systems in a potentially disruptive manner. It is culminating in Mobility as a Service ...

Long-term infrastructure projects are often best judged with the benefit of hindsight. Many significant and important projects initially condemned as failures were later been regarded as great successes. Opinion can take ...

It has been known that concrete is one of the most important construction materials used in building industry. However, the internal defects, such as cracks and voids, can significantly affect the durability of concrete, ...

Human-made or natural disasters can lead to disruption in the functionally and structural integrity of transportation infrastructure. Damage imposed by natural disasters can be very detrimental to the functionality of road ...

Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR) contributes to approximately 80% of the total annual rainfall in South Asia. The observed decrease in ISMR with an arguably increasing variability in its intensity and frequency in the ...

Indoor air pollution now ranks as a top environmental health risk globally. Poor indoor air quality can detrimentally affect human health and the economy. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are pervasive indoor air pollutants. ...

India is the second most populous country and the largest freshwater consumer in the world. The country faces severe freshwater scarcity primarily driven by increasing water demand and declining freshwater availability. ...

Reinforced concrete (RC) protective barriers such as rockfall barriers and vehicular barriers need to be designed to resist impact actions. However, there are uncertainties over the required stability of the barrier to ...

Place, as a human spatial concept, has been studied extensively in the fields of philosophy and psychology. Recently, place-based research has received an increasing amount of attention in the domain of GIScience, and the ...

Public-private partnership (PPP) contracts are unique in features in comparison to other procurement models because of the private sector’s long-term engagement in the operational phase. Evaluating ex-ante and ex-post ...