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Feb 1970
Optimal Highway Staging by Dynamic Programming
Authors: Richard de Neufville, AM.ASCE, and Yasuo MoriAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Transportation Engineering Journal of ASCE
Volume 96, Issue 1
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A practical procedure for defining an optimal sequence of highway improvements over time, for which computer programs are available, is described. An efficient procedure has been developed by modifying the techniques of dynamic programming, a method which will guarantee the definition of an optimal schedule of independent projects. Specifically, computational efficiency is achieved by use of a variable increment, alternative-oriented approach to dynamic programming, similar to implicit enumeration. Examples demonstrate how dynamic programming can determine the most effective combination of projects when a straight benefit cost analysis cannot.
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Transportation Engineering Journal of ASCE
Volume 96 • Issue 1 • February 1970
Pages: 11 - 24
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© 1970 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Feb 1970
Published online: Feb 5, 2021
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Richard de Neufville, AM.ASCE
Asst. Prof. of Civ. Engrg., M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.
Yasuo Mori
Civ. Engr., Japan Highway Public Corp., Tokyo, Japan
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