INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT DELIVERY IN RIYADH’S ROAD NETWORK

AI-ASSISTED OPTIMIZATION AND THE POLICY TRADE-OFFS OF URBAN COORDINATION

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  • Yousif Humeida Jacobs Solutions
  • Abdulrazaq Alqarni

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https://doi.org/10.66838/sauc.6389

Abstract

Coordinating cross-sector infrastructure works is a city-scale scheduling problem with direct implications for service continuity and neighborhood disruption. This study presents an AI-assisted spatiotemporal simulation using Tabu Search and a synthetic portfolio of 200 road-aligned projects on Riyadh's public road network. This approach eliminates all hard-overlaps (intersecting projects occurring simultaneously) while reducing proximity-overlaps (simultaneous projects within 1 km) by 76.4% relative to greedy coordination. However, reducing proximity overlaps increases delivery delays. Sensitivity analysis exposes a Pareto frontier between disruption reduction and delivery delay, showing that AI optimization alone is not sufficient and policymakers must determine acceptable trade-offs.

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2026-10-19

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Humeida, Y., & Alqarni, A. (2026). INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT DELIVERY IN RIYADH’S ROAD NETWORK: AI-ASSISTED OPTIMIZATION AND THE POLICY TRADE-OFFS OF URBAN COORDINATION. Street Art & Urban Creativity, 12(6), 8–22. https://doi.org/10.66838/sauc.6389

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Vol. 12 No. 6 (2026)

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