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The Scientific World Journal
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 524329, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/524329
Research Article

An Iterative Approach for the Optimization of Pavement Maintenance Management at the Network Level

Cristina Torres-Machí,1,2 Alondra Chamorro,2 Carlos Videla,2 Eugenio Pellicer,1 and Víctor Yepes1,3

1Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera, s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
2Escuela de Ingeniería, Departamento de Ingeniería y Gestión de la Construcción, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Edificio San Agustín, Piso 3, 7820436 Santiago, Chile
3ICITECH, Department of Construction Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera, s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain

Received 28 November 2013; Accepted 3 February 2014; Published 11 March 2014

Academic Editors: R. Beale, S. B. Coskun, S. S. Seyedalizadeh, and Z. Tao

Copyright © 2014 Cristina Torres-Machí et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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