Dr. Baraa A. Alfasi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. degree from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Alfasi has research experience in modelling risk in highway infrastructure investments. Specifically, his recent studies are on decision-theoretic, Bayesian, and factor analysis approaches to life cycle analysis of investments in highway infrastructure.