CSE422: Infrastructure Management -

Introduction
Mark Hsu
Associate Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Email: [email protected]

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Contents

⚫ Teaching Plan / Subject Description Form

⚫ Basic Concepts of System
⚫ Infrastructure Projects (Hong Kong, China,
and Worldwide)

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Instructor
⚫ Dr. Shu-Chien (Mark) Hsu
Office: ZS944
Phone: 2766-6057
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: 3:30PM~4:20PM, Thursday

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Course Information

⚫ Lecture: Thu 4:30PM~6:20PM Room QR403

⚫ Tutorials: 3:30PM~4:30PM Mon Z206
12:30PM~1:30PM Tue Z510
1:30PM~2:30PM Tue Z410
⚫ PolyU eLearning: Lectures and course
materials will be uploaded to Blackboard

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Teaching Plan

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Course Objectives
⚫ To provide students with basic knowledge related to
the development and management of civil
infrastructures.
⚫ Students should be able to integrate the knowledge of
civil engineering with consideration of practical
management constraints, including: feasibility study,
life-cycle cost analysis, asset management, and
performance of analysis and design within the
environment, time, quality, and cost constraints.

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Learning Outcomes (1)
Upon completion of the subject, students will be able to:
(a) Apply life-cycle management techniques to the management
of modern civil infrastructures with considerations of constraints
in fiscal requirements, time requirements, and quality standards

(b) Apply contemporary project management knowledge in

project delivery systems, innovative contracting and financing
methods to infrastructure project development

(c) Apply analytical techniques for critically analyzing

infrastructure management related data in a practical setting and
using the data to make managerial decisions

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Learning Outcomes (2)
(d) Apply computer-based techniques for project management,
optimization, and simulation to cope with the complexities and
uncertainties in managing infrastructure projects

(e) Develop critical thinking, lateral thinking, and systematic

thinking in perceiving, understanding and solving practical
infrastructure management problems

(f) Develop basic mathematical, statistical, and modeling skills

needed for evaluating engineering and management alternatives
subject to technological, economic, environmental, and social
constraints

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Topics to be covered in this course (1)
⚫ Basic System Concepts and Civil Infrastructure
Systems
⚫ Economic Appraisal of Projects: Time Value of
Money; Depreciation; Cost Estimation
⚫ Infrastructure Project Delivery Systems
⚫ Project Scheduling with Known Activity Times
(PERT/CPM); Project Scheduling with
Uncertain Activity Times; Time-Cost
Tradeoffs
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Topics to be covered in this course (2)

⚫ Infrastructure Performance Evaluation and Prediction

⚫ Sustainability Considerations in Infrastructure
Planning and Operation
⚫ Decision Analysis: Decision Making without and with
Probabilities; Multi-Criteria Decision Making: Goal
Programming, Scoring Method, AHP
⚫ Infrastructure Management Practices (Mr. Ronald Lai,
DSD)

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Assessment

⚫ Assignments: 5% (1% each)

⚫ Group Project: 20%
⚫ Midterm: 5%
⚫ Final exam: 70%
⚫ Total: 100%

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Reading List and References
⚫ A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), 2013. 5th Edition,
Project Management Institute.
⚫ Anderson, D.R., Sweeney, D.J., Williams, T.A., Camm, J.D., Martin, K., 2012. An Introduction
to Management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making. Revised 13th Edition,
South-Western Cengage Learning, Mason, OH, USA.
⚫ Kerzner, H., 2013. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and
Controlling, 11th Edition, Wiley.
⚫ Labi, S., 2014. Introduction to Civil Engineering Systems: A Systems Perspective to the
Development of Civil Engineering Facilities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
⚫ Newnan, D.G., Eschenbach, T.G., Lavelle, J.P., 2012. Engineering Economic Analysis, Eleven
Edition, Oxford University Press.
⚫ Priemus, H., Flyvbjerg, B., van Wee, B., 2008. Decision-Making on Mega-Projects: Cost-
Benefit Analysis, Planning and Innovation. Edward Elgar, Massachusetts, USA.
⚫ ReVelle, C.S., Whitlatch, E.E., Wright, J.R., 2004. Civil and Environmental Systems
Engineering, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall.
⚫ Sinha, K.C., Labi, S., 2007. Transportation Decision Making: Principles of Project Evaluation
and Programming. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

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Basic Concepts of System

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 What is a System?
⚫ A system is composed of parts
⚫ People
⚫ Equipment
⚫ Software
⚫ Facilities
⚫ The parts of a system work together
⚫ Components
⚫ Processes
⚫ A system performs a function
⚫ A system has a lifecycle
⚫ Design
⚫ Development
⚫ Operation and maintenance

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Examples of Systems

⚫ Transportation ⚫ Information Systems

⚫ Inventory
⚫ Urban metro
⚫ Accounting
⚫ Air traffic control
⚫ Military Systems
⚫ Rail network ⚫ Command and control
⚫ Interstate highways ⚫ Transportation
⚫ Communications ⚫ Intelligence
⚫ Telephone system
⚫ Logistics
⚫ Natural Systems
⚫ Computer networks
⚫ Digestive systems
⚫ Satellite networks
⚫ Weather
⚫ Ecosystem

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Example: Interstate Freeway System

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Role of Infrastructures

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What is Infrastructure?
➢ Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed
for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and
facilities necessary for an economy to function (Sheffrin 2003).

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Civil Infrastructure Systems

⚫ Traditional Civil Infrastructure (structural and

geotechnical) Engineering
⚫ Understand the behavior of structural components
in isolation
⚫ Consider infrastructure over a short-time horizon
(e.g., design and construction)

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Civil Infrastructure Systems

⚫ The field of Civil Infrastructure Engineering is

facing new challenges that require a systems
perspective:
⚫ Understand how the structure behaves as a system of
components
⚫ Understand how individual structures behave together
as an infrastructure system
⚫ Consider infrastructure systems over a long-time
horizon (life cycle of the system ), which includes:
design, construction, maintenance, operations, and
destruction

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Civil Infrastructure Systems

Civil Infrastructure System

Transportation & Water Resources Environmental

Structure System Security System Etc.
Logistic System & Energy System System

Information
System

Intelligent Transportation Intelligent Water Resources Intelligent Structure Intelligent Environmental Intelligent Security
& Logistic System & Energy System System System System
Etc.

Intelligent Civil Infrastructure System

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Transportation System
⚫ Transportation system constitutes the largest public
sector investment
⚫ Economic vitality and competitiveness
⚫ Mobility and accessibility of people and goods
⚫ Economic development process
⚫ Continued growth in commercial and personal
travel
⚫ Cost-effective investment decisions require
monitoring and evaluation of impacts
⚫ Costs and benefits
⚫ Tangible and intangible
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Interstate Highway (or Freeway) Network
in the United States
⚫ Largest civil engineering
project
⚫ National Defense Highway
System
⚫ Total length=77,017 km
(47,856 miles)
⚫ Numbering system
⚫ One and two-digit routes
⚫ Even number=East-West
⚫ Odd number=North-South
⚫ Three-digit=Auxiliary routes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System 23
High-Speed Rail Network in China
⚫ Longest HSR network with over
19,000 km (12,000 mile)
⚫ Plan for 30,000 km (19,000 mile)
by 2020
⚫ Longest line: Beijing-Guangzhou
HSR (2,298 km/1,428 mile)
⚫ First commercial maglev:
Shanghai
⚫ Speed
⚫ CRH shown in orange: 160–250 km/h
(99–155 mph)
⚫ Secondary high-speed lines in green:
200–299 km/h (124–186 mph)
⚫ Blue: 300+ km/h (190+ mph)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China 24
High-Speed Rail Network in China by 2020
Travel time by rail from Beijing to each of the provincial capitals

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China
Ten Major Infrastructure Projects in Hong Kong

Population = 7,234,800
Density = 6,544/km2 (16,949/sq. mi)
GDP = $310 billion
GDP per capita = $42,437

Extracted from Mrs Carrie Lam (Secretary for Development)’s presentation on “The New Era of
Infrastructure Development”
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Ten Major Infrastructure Projects in Hong Kong

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1. South Island Line (East)

$1.29 billion
Automated rapid transit (driverless)

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2. Shatin to Central Link

$7.74 billion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTgvZrGtjow&t=151s 29
3. Tuen Mun-Chep Lap Kok Link and Tuen
Mun Western Bypass

$2.58 billion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhz4pcYtgTI

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4. Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link

Hong Kong Section: 26 km

Latest estimate: HK$85.3
billion (or $11 billion)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t5hew8yvEI (2:01 minutes in English)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROtaAhnzmgY (11:30 minutes in Cantonese)
5. Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge

Length: 50 km
Cost: HK$83 billion (or
$10.6 billion)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dStITCgn73w 32
6. Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Express Line

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7. Lok Ma Chau Loop

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8. West Kowloon Cultural District

$2.78 billion
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_rwF8MR1XE&t=1s
9. Kai Tak Development

$12.9 billion

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10. New Development Areas

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