Infrastructure Monitoring Articles
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Water, Wastewater and Stormwater Infrastructure Management
Explains how to optimize the operation of water supply systems and the related advances in SCADA – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition – systems Examines the advances in design and construction methods such as BIM – Building Information Modeling Explains municipal budgeting, chain of planning, programming, and other related subjects Includes new information ...
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Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of operators to treat wastewater to appropriate standards
Coordinator: International Water Association Where: Palais de l'Europe (PEU)- hall 8 PEu 6 When: Thursday 15 March 0830 - 1030 Targeted audience: Utility leaders, Staff from Government agencies with responsibilities for infrastructure provision and protection of the environment, private sector companies involves in service provision Even though there are considerable economic benefits ...
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Case study - Birmingham water works board identifies 26 leaks using advanced inline leak detection
Service: SmartBall Leak Detection Client: Birmingham Water Works Board Project Date: January 2012 - ongoing Location: Birmingham, Ala Type of Pipeline: Water Transmission Main Diameter: 42-inch (1050mm) Pipe Material: Reinforced Concrete Pipe In early 2012, the Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB) ran a successful leak detection program on 7.7 miles (12 km) of 42-inch (1050-mm) Reinforced ...
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Evolution of an integrated 1D/2D modeling package for urban drainage - Case Study
Introduction: Recent flooding events in North America have revealed deficiencies in existing stormwater infrastructure and management practices. The development of effective and efficient designs requires a comprehensive understanding of flooding in urban areas and complex open channel and overland flow systems. Traditional one dimensional (1D) models are used to simulate flow in river channels ...
By Innovyze
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Investment efficiency in the Italian water service industry: a benchmarking study using data envelopment analysis (DEA)
The paper presents a benchmarking study of the Italian water service industry using data envelopment analysis. Sample investigated in the study includes 38 optimal territorial areas (ATOs), where the ATO is a well circumscribed geographical area where the provision of integrated water services is considered efficient. Results of DEA implementation show that the average pure technical and scale ...
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Vulnerability analysis of interdependent critical infrastructures: case study of the Swedish railway system
Critical infrastructures provide essential services which enable our society to function. Disruptions in infrastructures can have widespread effects, not only for the originating infrastructure but also, through mutual dependencies, for other infrastructures. Identifying vulnerabilities inherent in these system–of–systems is thus highly critical for the proactive management and avoidance of ...
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A hybrid systems model to simulate cyber interdependencies between critical infrastructures
Critical infrastructures (CI) depend on communications and information technology infrastructure (CITI) for many of their key functionalities, which is known as cyber interdependency. In this paper, we presented a cyber interdependency simulation technique that is based on the idea that overall performance of a CI network is determined by the behaviour of its components at multiple time scales. ...
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Analysing the impact of demographic development on sustainability via infrastructure networks
Within the next decades unprecedented demographic changes (ageing and population decrease) will impact on most developed and with delay developing nations. The resulting changes in age structure and geographical distribution are expected to cause substantial adjustments. We present an analysis to test the simple demographic sustainability hypothesis that this development will improve ...
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Linking infrastructure resilience to response requirements: the New Madrid Seismic Zone case
Catastrophic events generate cascading and synergistic infrastructure failures that will produce unanticipated response requirements. Infrastructure failures not only influence the demands for services and commodities but also the mobility and capability of response organisations. This project modelled a catastrophic earthquake (M7.7) in the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ). The US Geological ...
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Developing an index to assess the resilience of critical infrastructure
In 2009, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began using a targeted questionnaire to produce individual vulnerability/protective-measure values for high-risk critical infrastructures and key resources. As sites continue to be assessed, the topic of resilience is emerging as a necessary focus in risk management and infrastructure protection. Enhancing the resilience of critical ...
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GroundWater Markup Language (GWML) – enabling groundwater data interoperability in spatial data infrastructures
Increasing stress on global groundwater resources is leading to new approaches to the management and delivery of groundwater data. These approaches include the deployment of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) to enable online data interoperability amongst numerous and heterogeneous data sources. Often an important component of an SDI is a global domain schema, which serves as a central structure ...
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Infrastructure transitions towards sustainability: a complex adaptive systems perspective
To ensure infrastructure assets are procured and maintained by government on behalf of citizens, appropriate policy and institutional architecture are needed, particularly if a fundamental shift to more sustainable infrastructure is the goal. The shift in recent years from competitive and resource-intensive procurement to more collaborative and sustainable approaches to infrastructure governance ...
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An experimental framework for ecosystem capital accounting in Europe
Ecosystem accounts are being developed as part of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts which aims at supplementing the UN System of National Accounts with information on the environment and natural capital. The purpose is to broaden the scope of the variables taken into account in policymaking in order to improve understanding of the interdependence and interactions between the economy ...
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Sparse principal component analysis based sustainability assessment of EOL ICT service infrastructures
Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM) is becoming a more effective approach to solve sustainable (environmental, social and economic) problems. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) positively made business more efficient and less polluting, while negatively contributes to environmental impacts by releasing of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) and producing e-wastes. This paper will develop a ...
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Infrastructure resilience assessment through control design
Infrastructure resilience is a priority for homeland security in many nations around the globe. This paper describes a new approach for quantitatively assessing the resilience of critical infrastructure systems. The mathematics of optimal control design provides the theoretical foundation for this methodology. This foundation enables the inclusion of recovery costs within the resilience ...
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Protective measures and vulnerability indices for the Enhanced Critical Infrastructure Protection Programme
Argonne National Laboratory in partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has developed a methodology to systematically evaluate the protection posture and vulnerability of critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR). This vulnerability methodology is part of a larger effort by DHS called the Enhanced Critical Infrastructure Protection Programme, which seeks to mitigate ...
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Strategic security measures for water infrastructure
As the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attacks is fast approaching, the United States (U.S.) has no definite information of terror threat. According to the systematic approaches of risk assessment and concise intelligence analysis presented in the book entitled, "Risk Assessment for Water Infrastructure Safety and Security" (hereafter, the "RAWISS book"), the terrorists will ...
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A measurement infrastructure for sustainable manufacturing
Global resource degradation, climate change, and environmental pollution are worsening due to increasing globalised industrialisation. Manufacturing industries have thus been put under pressure to cope with these problems while maintaining competitiveness. Sustainable manufacturing has been proposed to meet these challenges. The measurement of sustainability in manufacturing enables the ...
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Transport vulnerabilities and critical industries: experiences from a Finnish stevedore strike
Transport system is one of the critical systems in all societies. Despite growing interest towards supply chain vulnerabilities and the meaning of critical infrastructures to societies, analysis on vulnerabilities related to maritime transports in a security of supply context has not gained much interest. However, any failure in transports can have very disruptive consequences not only to ...
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Models for reducing the risk of critical networked infrastructures
In this paper, we review the literature studying how to reduce the disruption risk to critical networked infrastructures. This is an important area of research because huge consequences result from infrastructure disruptions. As a result, this research area has grown a lot in the last decade. In this review we discuss articles from the literature, place them into categories, and suggest topics ...
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