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In the 2003 fiscal year, six of the largest western Canadian cities reported a combined $564 million infrastructure deficit. This continued lack of funding impairs the municipality’s ability to maintain current service levels. Such a scenario may ultimately reduce the community’s quality of life, its ability to support growth and economic development and compromise the health and safety of the citizens. Traditional DSSs are unable to cope with the increasing infrastructure deficit, information technology advances and environmental and safety issues. An advanced decision support system based on the optimized levels of service (LOS) is needed to be developed. Most the LOS determination frameworks take into consideration only quantitative factors. The research presented in this paper presents a framework to develop a comprehensive LOS of the transportation network which will consider quantitative and qualitative factors. The paper identifies the performance measures to determine the LOS. The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is used to integrate the performance measures to develop comprehensive LOS. To prove the effectiveness of the proposed framework, comprehensive LOS of the transportation network is developed. The framework can be modified to determine the LOS of the other infrastructure systems. By using the comprehensive LOS for decision making, the municipalities will be able to produce optimal resource allocation plans in a sustainable manner. Transportation departments will maintain the operational capability of the network in compliance with the service standards, applicable codes and regulations.

Stream: Economic Sustainability

Paper: A paper has not yet been submitted.

As an undergraduate student of architecture, I had the opportunity to familiarize myself with all micro and macro level issues related to building design and construction. I studied a wide variety of subjects ranging from building design and project management to urban design and city planning. I worked as an architect for two years. The need for the augmentation of my understanding of various project management facets of construction projects propelled me to take up the Master’s course in Civil Engineering, with specialization in building technology and construction management, at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Studied at Institute of Facility Management, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany on IIT-DAAD Sandwich Scholarship to work on my thesis project. My interest in research, especially in the area of computer applications in civil engineering, led me to join PHD programme in department of civil engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. Presently working as a research assistant with the University in trhe area of infrastructure management, Facilty Management, IT in construction.

Dr. Al-Hussein is interested in project management, including resource, facility, equipment, procurement management, as well as project cost control and claims analysis. He is also interested in computer modeling with regards to business process modeling and data modeling in construction. Currently he is at work on a project which utilizes 3D-Solids CAD modeling, object oriented methodology, and information management systems with regards to construction automation. The CAD model, prepared by the architect, integrates with other external information systems, such as databases, using object-oriented methodology. This research is intended to expand in the knowledge that exists in the field of construction automation

In applied mathematics, the numerical treatment of scientific and engineering problems, oscillatory integrals and slowly convergent series occur abundantly very often. These oscillatory integrals and slowly convergent series are produced by approximation procedures depending on a parameter, iterative methods and perturbation techniques. The use of these oscillatory integrals and slowly convergent series presents severe numerical and computational difficulties. This is the reason why nonlinear transformations for improving convergence of oscillatory integrals, or infinite series have been studied for many years, and have been applied to various situations. These methods are based on the idea of extrapolation. With the help of nonlinear transformations, the improvement of convergence can be remarkable.