CristinaÌýTorres-Machi

  • Assistant Professor
  • CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
  • CIVIL SYSTEMS

Education

  • PhDÌýin Civil Engineering - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain and Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile (2015)
  • MScÌýin Planning and Management in Civil Engineering - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain (2012)
  • BScÌýin Civil Engineering - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain (2008)

Interests

  • Infrastructure asset management
  • Sustainability and resilience applied to transportation infrastructure
  • Decision-making and optimization for infrastructure management systems
  • Pavement management systems

Selected Publications

  1. Torres-Machi, C.; Pellicer, E.; Yepes, V.; Chamorro, A. (2017) Towards a Sustainable Optimization of Pavement Maintenance Programs under Budgetary Restrictions.ÌýJournal of Cleaner Production, 148, 90-102. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.01.100
  2. Picornell, M; Pellicer, E.;ÌýTorres-Machi, C; Sutrisna, M. (2017). Implementation of Earned Value Management in Unit-Price Payment Contracts.ÌýJournal Management in Engineering, 33(3), 06016001. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000500
  3. Torres-Machi, C.; Achebe, J.; Tighe, S. (2017) Evaluating Innovative Pavement Sustainability Tools for Pavement Management.ÌýInternational Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Constructed Infrastructure Facilities (MAIREINFRA), 19 – 21 July, Seoul, South Korea.
  4. Alyami, Z.; Nahidi, S.;ÌýTorres-Machi, C.; Tighe, S. (2017) Cross-Asset Management for Transportation Infrastructure Systems.ÌýCSCE Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting, May 31 – June 3, Vancouver, Canada. Organized by: Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.
  5. Osorio, A.;ÌýTorres-Machi, C.; Godoy, P.; Chamorro, A.; Mourgues, C.; Tighe, S.; Videla, C. (2017) Development of an Urban Pavement Management System.ÌýWorld Conference on Pavement and Asset Management, WCPAM 2017,Ìý12-16 June, Milan, Italy. Organized by: Politecnico di Milano.
  6. Yepes, V.;ÌýTorres-Machi, C.; Chamorro, A.; Pellicer, E. (2016) Optimal Pavement Maintenance Programs Based on a Hybrid Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure Algorithm.ÌýJournal of Civil Engineering and Management, 22(4), 540-550. DOI: 10.3846/13923730.2015.1120770.
  7. Torres-Machi, C.; Osorio, A.; Godoy, P.; Chamorro, A.; Mourgues, C.; Videla, C.; Tighe, S. (2016) Incorporating Sustainability into Pavement Asset Management: Application to an Urban Network.ÌýTransportation Research Board 95thAnnual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 January 2016. Paper 16-6277. Organized by: Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.
  8. Torres-Machi, C.; Chamorro, A.; Yepes, V.; Pellicer, E.; Videla, C. (2015) Sustainable Pavement Management: How to Integrate Economic, Technical and Environmental Aspects in Decision-Making.ÌýTransportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2523, 56-63.
  9. Torres-Machi, C.; Chamorro, A.; Yepes, V.; Pellicer, E. (2014) Current models and practices of economic and environmental evaluation for sustainable network-level pavement management.ÌýRevista de la construcción,Ìý13(2), 49-56.
  10. Torres-Machi, C.; Pellicer, E.; Yepes, V.; Chamorro, A. (2013). Heuristic Optimization Model for Infrastructure Asset Management.ÌýAdvances in Artificial Intelligence, 17-20 September, Madrid, Spain, pp. 300-309. ISBN 978-3-642-40642-3.