《基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施系統(tǒng)雜志》發(fā)表了有關(guān)監(jiān)測(cè)、評(píng)估、擴(kuò)大、修理、更換、資助或以其他方式維持民用基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施的方法的跨學(xué)科論文。支持人類活動(dòng)的基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施包括復(fù)雜和相互關(guān)聯(lián)的物理、社會(huì)、生態(tài)、經(jīng)濟(jì)和技術(shù)系統(tǒng)，如交通、能源生產(chǎn)和分配；水資源管理；廢物管理；支持城鄉(xiāng)社區(qū)的設(shè)施；通信；可持續(xù)資源開發(fā)以及環(huán)境保護(hù)。越來(lái)越需要跨和多學(xué)科專門知識(shí)，不僅是為了設(shè)計(jì)和建立這些系統(tǒng)，而且也是為了管理和維持這些系統(tǒng)。典型的管理問(wèn)題充滿了不確定的信息、多個(gè)和相互沖突的目標(biāo)，有時(shí)還有許多和相互沖突的選民。解決方案在本質(zhì)上既復(fù)雜又跨學(xué)科，需要將良好的工程判斷、經(jīng)濟(jì)靈活性和制度上的忍耐進(jìn)行深思熟慮的整合。考慮出版的論文必須包含一個(gè)清晰明確的工程部分，并為基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施系統(tǒng)的藝術(shù)和科學(xué)做出貢獻(xiàn)。

The Journal of Infrastructure Systems publishes cross-disciplinary papers about methodologies for monitoring, evaluating, expanding, repairing, replacing, financing, or otherwise sustaining the civil infrastructure.The infrastructure supporting human activities includes complex and interrelated physical, social, ecological, economic, and technological systems such as transportation, energy production and distribution; water resources management; waste management; facilities supporting urban and rural communities; communications; sustainable resources development; and environmental protection. Increasingly, inter- and multidisciplinary expertise is needed not only to design and build these systems, but to manage and sustain them as well. Typical management problems are fraught with uncertain information, multiple and conflicting objectives, and sometimes numerous and conflicting constituencies. Solutions are both complex and cross-disciplinary in nature and require the thoughtful integration of sound engineering judgment, economic flexibility, and institutional forbearance. Papers considered for publication must contain a clear and well-defined engineering component and make a contribution to the art and science related to infrastructure systems.