Journal of Infrastructure Systems

The Journal of Infrastructure Systems publishes cross-disciplinary papers about methodologies for monitoring, evaluating, expanding, repairing, replacing, financing, or otherwise sustaining the civil infrastructure.The infrastructure supporting human activities includes complex and interrelated physical, social, ecological, economic, and technological systems such as transportation, energy production and distribution; water resources management; waste management; facilities supporting urban and rural communities; communications; sustainable resources development; and environmental protection. Increasingly, inter- and multidisciplinary expertise is needed not only to design and build these systems, but to manage and sustain them as well. Typical management problems are fraught with uncertain information, multiple and conflicting objectives, and sometimes numerous and conflicting constituencies. Solutions are both complex and cross-disciplinary in nature and require the thoughtful integration of sound engineering judgment, economic flexibility, and institutional forbearance. Papers considered for publication must contain a clear and well-defined engineering component and make a contribution to the art and science related to infrastructure systems.

《基础设施系统杂志》发表了有关监测、评估、扩大、修理、更换、资助或以其他方式维持民用基础设施的方法的跨学科论文。支持人类活动的基础设施包括复杂和相互关联的物理、社会、生态、经济和技术系统，如交通、能源生产和分配；水资源管理；废物管理；支持城乡社区的设施；通信；可持续资源开发以及环境保护。越来越需要跨和多学科专门知识，不仅是为了设计和建立这些系统，而且也是为了管理和维持这些系统。典型的管理问题充满了不确定的信息、多个和相互冲突的目标，有时还有许多和相互冲突的选民。解决方案在本质上既复杂又跨学科，需要将良好的工程判断、经济灵活性和制度上的忍耐进行深思熟虑的整合。考虑出版的论文必须包含一个清晰明确的工程部分，并为基础设施系统的艺术和科学做出贡献。