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Decision making for road infrastructures in a network based on a policy gradient method

Published inInfrastructure Asset Management, vol. 11, no. 3, p. 161-171
Publication date2024-09-01
Abstract

Developing proper maintenance and rehabilitation investment plans is vital for prolonging the service life of road infrastructures while preserving the required service level under capital constraints. This paper proposes a reinforcement learning approach for determining an optimal policy of selecting maintenance, repair and rehabilitation alternatives for a network of road infrastructure facilities. The proposed approach is based on a policy gradient method and overcomes the computational complexity of optimisation problems due to a large number of possible combinations of network conditions and maintenance, repair and rehabilitation alternatives. The developed optimal management policy takes into consideration interdependencies among infrastructure facilities in a road network. Numerical studies on concrete bridge decks in road networks are performed to demonstrate the advantage, feasibility and capability of the proposed approach.

Keywords
  • Infrastructure planning/Markov decision process/rehabilitation
  • Reclamation & renovation/reinforcement learning/ transport planning
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SASAI, Kotaro et al. Decision making for road infrastructures in a network based on a policy gradient method. In: Infrastructure Asset Management, 2024, vol. 11, n° 3, p. 161–171. doi: 10.1680/jinam.23.00045
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