research overview
- Prof. Torres-Machi’s research seeks to enhance the condition and resilience of transportation infrastructure by developing data-driven and cost-effective methodologies to optimize the management of civil infrastructure.
- Contact Info
Torres-Machi, Cristina
Positions
- Associate Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science
- Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- Infrastructure asset management, sustainability and resilience applied to transportation infrastructure, decision-making and optimization for infrastructure management
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
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Prediction of Rutting Depth Using Random Forest Methods in Full-Depth Reclamation Asphalt Pavements.
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering.
57-69.
2025
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Biobased Alternative Binders from Agar for Civil Engineering Applications: Thermal, Biodeterioration, and Moisture Sorption Properties.
RILEM Bookseries.
665-675.
2023
- Correcting the Fallacy in Best-Value Competitive Procurements for Design-Build Highway Projects 2022
- How Are Sustainability Criteria Included in the Public Procurement Process?. 253-262. 2021
- Socio-economic evaluation of urban pavement networks 2017
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Prediction of Rutting Depth Using Random Forest Methods in Full-Depth Reclamation Asphalt Pavements.
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering.
57-69.
2025
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conference proceeding
- Trends in Equitable Electric Vehicle Adoption and Impacts on Pavement Condition and Electric Power Infrastructure. 805-815. 2024
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Prediction of Rutting Depth Using Random Forest Methods in Full-Depth Reclamation Asphalt Pavements
2024
- Computer Vision for Infrastructure Health Monitoring: Automated Detection of Pavement Rutting from Street-Level Images. 1089-1096. 2023
- Impacts of Flooding on Traffic Functionality from Crowdsourced Location Data. 118-126. 2023
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Biobased Alternative Binders from Agar for Civil Engineering Applications: Thermal, Biodeterioration, and Moisture Sorption Properties
2023
- ASCE’s Response to the Pandemic: Execution of a Remote ExCEEd Teaching Workshop 2022
- Work in Progress: The Strategic Importance of Data Science in Civil Engineering: Encouraging Interest in the Next Generation 2022
- Exploring the Capabilities of Optical Satellite Imagery in Evaluating Pavement Condition. 108-115. 2022
- A Proposed Framework for the Integrated Management of Municipal Infrastructure. 846-855. 2020
- Local Calibration of Stiffness Modulus for Full-Depth Reclamation Design. 255-262. 2019
- Belief and Basic Evidence Theory for Combining Expert Seismic Risk Assessments 2018
- Design and Feasibility Analysis of an Urban Pavement Management System for the City of Valencia, Spain. 476-485. 2018
- Evaluating Innovative Pavement Sustainability Tools for Pavement Management 2017
- Development of an Urban Pavement Management System 2017
- Field Monitoring and Analysis of the Early Performance of Unbonded Concrete Overlay Using Strain Gauge Readings 2017
- Cross-Asset Management for Transportation Infrastructure Systems 2017
- Procurement and Delivery Methods Applied to Infrastructure Operation and Maintenance: An International Review 2016
- Desarrollo de un Sistema de Gestión de Pavimentos Urbanos 2016
- Análisis de los Procesos de Licitación Pública del Sector de la Construcción en el Perú 2016
- Planificación y Control de Obras de Ingeniería Civil en Perú: Estado Actual y Propuestas de Mejora 2016
- ACQUISITION OF COMPETENCES IN A MASTER DEGREE IN CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT. INTED proceedings. 718-727. 2016
- INTEGRATION OF TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES ACQUISITION IN A MASTER COURSE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT. INTED proceedings. 621-627. 2016
- Incorporating Sustainability into Pavement Asset Management: Application to an Urban Network 2016
- COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EMPLOYABILITY BETWEEN SPANISH AND FRENCH STUDENTS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING. INTED proceedings. 5060-5067. 2015
- TEACHING OCCUPATIONAL RISK PREVENTION FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING. INTED proceedings. 4971-4976. 2015
- Optimizacion heuristica para la gestion de infraestructuras: Aplicacion a una red de pavimentos urbanos en Chile 2014
- Sustainable pavement management: How to integrate economic, technical and environmental aspects in decision-making 2014
- Application of simple and hybrid local search heuristics for the long-term optimization of pavement maintenance strategies at the network level 2014
- Heuristic Optimization Model for Infrastructure Asset Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 300-309. 2013
- Modelo de optimizacion para la gestion del mantenimiento de una infraestructura de edificacion 2013
- A COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECTS ADAPTED TO ABET'S ACCREDITATION. INTED proceedings. 6554-6561. 2013
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Impact of the economic crisis in construction: a perspective from graduate students.
Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences.
640-645.
2013
- Optimization and prioritization methods for pavement network management 2013
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Integración de investigación y docencia de posgrado a través del diseño eficiente de estructuras.
Modelling in Science Education and Learning.
89-89.
2013
- Analyzing the potential application of the earned value management (EVM) in the Spanish construction industry - An initial review of the dataset 2012
- Enabling implementation of earned value management in the Spanish construction industry 2012
- Habilidades demandadas por el mercado laboral para los profesionales de la construccion 2012
- La gestion de proyectos en las empresas constructoras: estado del arte y tendencias actuales 2012
- A proposed methodology for studying the potential application of earned value management in construction projects in Spain 2012
- El estudio de caso como estrategia didactica y de coordinacion de competencias entre asignaturas de un posgrado de gestion en ingenieria civil 2012
- Excelencia e innovacion en el proceso de aprendizaje del proceso proyecto-construccion en la ingenieria civil 2012
- GAPS THAT IMPEDE CONSTRUCTION GRADUATES ENTERING THE SPANISH LABOUR MARKET. INTED proceedings. 5616-5625. 2012
- MOTIVATION OF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN A MASTER DEGREE IN CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT. INTED proceedings. 5626-5633. 2012
- An evaluation of an international academic exchange programme in construction management 2011
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journal article
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ASCE's Response to the Pandemic: Empowering Inclusion through the Remote ExCEEd Teaching Workshop.
Journal of Civil Engineering Education.
2025
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Does Recycling Compromise Long-Term Performance and Life-Cycle Costs? A Comparative Analysis of Full-Depth Reclamation and Overlay Pavements.
Transportation Research Record.
466-480.
2025
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Characterization and Evaluation of Agar as a Bio-Based Asphalt Binder Alternative.
Infrastructures.
2025
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Primary Risks for Delays and Cost Overruns in the Construction of Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Projects in Peru.
Journal of Management in Engineering.
2025
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Data-driven methodology to quantify traffic resilience of communities from crowdsourced location data.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
2025
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Impacts of Increased Prediction Accuracy in Management Decisions: A Study of Full-Depth Reclamation Pavements.
Journal of Infrastructure Systems.
2024
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Green Public Procurement in Civil Infrastructure Construction: Current Performance and Main Project Characteristics.
Journal of construction engineering and management.
2023
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Quantifying the Value of Satellite-Based Pavement Monitoring in Partially Observable Stochastic Environments.
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.
2023
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Machine learning to enhance the management of highway pavements and bridges.
Infrastructure Asset Management.
119-127.
2023
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Deterioration of Flexible Pavements Induced by Flooding: Case Study Using Stochastic Monte Carlo Simulations in Discrete-Time Markov Chains.
Journal of Infrastructure Systems.
2023
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Deep learning for estimating pavement roughness using synthetic aperture radar data.
Automation in Construction.
2022
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Assessing social performance of construction companies in public-works procurement: Data envelopment analysis based on the benefit of the doubt approach.
Environmental Impact Assessment Review.
2022
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Development of a Protocol for Engineering Applications of Evidence Theory.
ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering.
2022
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A fuzzy logic expert system for selecting optimal and sustainable life cycle maintenance and rehabilitation strategies for road pavements.
International Journal of Pavement Engineering.
425-437.
2022
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Combined evidence model to enhance pavement condition prediction from highly uncertain sensor data.
Reliability Engineering & System Safety.
2022
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Input Parameters for the Mechanistic-Empirical Design of Full-Depth Reclamation Projects.
Transportation Research Record.
384-396.
2021
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Challenges in Engineering Estimates for Best Value Design Build Highway Projects.
Journal of construction engineering and management.
2021
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Importance of Noncost Criteria Weighing in Best-Value Design-Build US Highway Projects.
Journal of Management in Engineering.
2021
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Structured Approach for Best-Value Evaluation Criteria: US Design-Build Highway Procurement (vol 36, 04020086, 2020).
Journal of Management in Engineering.
2021
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Performance of Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting the Pavement International Roughness Index.
Transportation Research Record.
226-237.
2021
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Human-induced or natural hazard? Factors influencing perceptions of actions to be taken in response to induced seismicity.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
2021
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Structured Approach for Best-Value Evaluation Criteria: US Design-Build Highway Procurement.
Journal of Management in Engineering.
2020
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Improving cost performance in design-bid-build road projects by mapping the reasons for cost overruns into the project phases.
REVISTA DE LA CONSTRUCCION.
334-345.
2020
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Social Indicators to Inform Community Evacuation Modeling and Planning.
ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering.
2020
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Exploring earned value management in the Spanish construction industry as a pathway to competitive advantage.
International Journal of Construction Management.
1-12.
2020
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Dempster-Shafer Theory applications in post-seismic structural damage and social vulnerability assessment.
Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.
201-213.
2020
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Sustainability Evaluation of Pavement Technologies through Multicriteria Decision Techniques.
Journal of Infrastructure Systems.
2019
- Representing Uncertainty in Civil Engineering with Dempster Shafer (Evidence) Theory. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. 2019
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Representing uncertainty in natural hazard risk assessment with Dempster Shafer (Evidence) theory.
Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.
137-151.
2019
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Sustainable Management Framework for Transportation Assets: Application to Urban Pavement Networks.
KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering.
4095-4106.
2018
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Impact of environmental assessment and budgetary restrictions in pavement maintenance decisions: Application to an urban network.
Transportation Research.
192-204.
2018
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Application of Markov chains and Monte Carlo simulations for developing pavement performance models for urban network management.
Structure and Infrastructure Engineering.
1169-1181.
2018
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Barriers to the Professional Development of Qualified Women in the Peruvian Construction Industry.
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice.
2017
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Implementation of Earned Value Management in Unit-Price Payment Contracts.
Journal of Management in Engineering.
2017
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Towards a sustainable optimization of pavement maintenance programs under budgetary restrictions.
Journal of Cleaner Production.
90-102.
2017
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OPTIMAL PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS BASED ON A HYBRID GREEDY RANDOMIZED ADAPTIVE SEARCH PROCEDURE ALGORITHM.
Journal of Civil Engineering and Management.
540-550.
2016
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Sustainable Pavement Management Integrating Economic, Technical, and Environmental Aspects in Decision Making.
Transportation Research Record.
56-63.
2015
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Current models and practices of economic and environmental evaluation for sustainable network-level pavement management.
REVISTA DE LA CONSTRUCCION.
49-56.
2014
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An Iterative Approach for the Optimization of Pavement Maintenance Management at the Network Level.
The Scientific World Journal.
2014
- Optimization of high-performance concrete structures by variable neighborhood search. International Journal of Civil Engineering. 90-99. 2013
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Employability of Graduate Students in Construction Management.
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice.
163-170.
2013
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ASCE's Response to the Pandemic: Empowering Inclusion through the Remote ExCEEd Teaching Workshop.
Journal of Civil Engineering Education.
2025
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Pontificia Univ Catolica De Chile (Chile) 2015
- Ph.D., Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) 2015
- M.S., Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) 2012
- B.S., Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) 2008
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Canada Country
- Chile Country
- Netherlands Country
- Spain Country