Regional Infrastructure Systems

Author : Colin Turner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786430588

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Regional Infrastructure Systems by Colin Turner Pdf

As the international economy globalises, there is a need for national infrastructure systems to adapt to form a global infrastructure system. This network of networks aids mobility between national systems as a means of supporting their territorial needs and preferences. This reflects a strategic approach to state infrastructuring as nations seek to utilise these physical systems to support and enhance their territoriality. Providing a thorough examination through the lens of economic infrastructure, the book addresses the forces of integration and fragmentation in global networks.This book explores the trend towards the development of regional infrastructure systems within the context of territorial strategy. Regional systems emerge out of states seeking to position themselves within the international system. Colin Turner identifies the diverse processes that are driving regional infrastructures, as well as examining the formal and informal patterns of integration that are shaping developments. This book is ideal for international political economy and regional development scholars who seek an advanced understanding of current regional infrastructure systems. It will also serve as a vital tool for practitioners who need to understand the implications for policy-making.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783881183864

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New Geographies of Infrastructure Systems. Spatial Science Perspectives and the Socio-Technical Change of Energy and Water Supply Systems in Germany by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yigitcanlar, Tan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781615207763

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Sustainable Urban and Regional Infrastructure Development: Technologies, Applications and Management by Yigitcanlar, Tan Pdf

"This book aims to bridge the gap in the current literature by addressing the overall problems present in major infrastructure in society, and the technologies that may be applied to overcome these problems"--Provided by publisher.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment,Toward Sustainable Critical Infrastructure Systems: Framing the Challenges Workshop Committee
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309140867

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Sustainable Critical Infrastructure Systems by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment,Toward Sustainable Critical Infrastructure Systems: Framing the Challenges Workshop Committee Pdf

For the people of the United States, the 20th century was one of unprecedented population growth, economic development, and improved quality of life. The critical infrastructure systems-water, wastewater, power, transportation, and telecommunications-built in the 20th century have become so much a part of modern life that they are taken for granted. By 2030, 60 million more Americans will expect these systems to deliver essential services. Large segments and components of the nation's critical infrastructure systems are now 50 to 100 years old, and their performance and condition are deteriorating. Improvements are clearly necessary. However, approaching infrastructure renewal by continuing to use the same processes, practices, technologies, and materials that were developed in the 20th century will likely yield the same results: increasing instances of service disruptions, higher operating and repair costs, and the possibility of catastrophic, cascading failures. If the nation is to meet some of the important challenges of the 21st century, a new paradigm for the renewal of critical infrastructure systems is needed. This book discusses the essential components of this new paradigm, and outlines a framework to ensure that ongoing activities, knowledge, and technologies can be aligned and leveraged to help meet multiple national objectives.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309132565

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Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance Pdf

The nation's physical infrastructure facilitates movement of people and goods; provides safe water; provides energy when and where needed; removes wastes; enables rapid communications; and generally supports our economy and quality of life. Developing a framework for guiding attempts at measuring the performance of infrastructure systems and grappling with the concept of defining good performance are the major themes of this book. Focusing on urban regions, within a context of national policy, the volume provides the basis for further in-depth analysis and application at the local, regional, state, and national levels.

Author : Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan,Srinivas Peeta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642114052

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Sustainable and Resilient Critical Infrastructure Systems by Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan,Srinivas Peeta Pdf

Sustainable and resilient critical infrastructure systems is an emerging paradigm in an evolving era of depleting assets in the midst of natural and man-made threats to provide a sustainable and high quality of life with optimized resources from social, economic, societal and environmental considerations. The increasing complexity and interconnectedness of civil and other interdependent infrastructure systems (electric power, energy, cyber-infrastructures, etc.) require inter- and multidisciplinary expertise required to engineer, monitor, and sustain these distributed large-scale complex adaptive infrastructure systems. This edited book is motivated by recent advances in simulation, modeling, sensing, communications/information, and intelligent and sustainable technologies that have resulted in the development of sophisticated methodologies and instruments to design, characterize, optimize, and evaluate critical infrastructure systems, their resilience, and their condition and the factors that cause their deterioration. Specific topics discussed in this book include, but are not limited to: optimal infrastructure investment allocation for sustainability, framework for manifestation of tacit critical infrastructure knowledge, interdependencies between energy and transportation systems for national long term planning, intelligent transportation infrastructure technologies, emergent research issues in infrastructure interdependence research, framework for assessing the resilience of infrastructure and economic systems, maintenance optimization for heterogeneous infrastructure systems, optimal emergency infrastructure inspection scheduling, and sustainable rehabilitation of deteriorated transportation infrastructure systems.

Author : Turner, Colin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839105487

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Integrating EuropeÕs Infrastructure Networks by Turner, Colin Pdf

This timely book explores the long-standing process of infrastructural integration across Europe, with a particular focus on the EU member states. It illuminates the main economic infrastructure sectors, including transport, energy and information, examining how the process of infrastructural integration reflects an alignment of the needs of the states that are the main drivers behind this process.

Author : N.A. Makhutov,G.B. Baecher
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781614991311

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Comparative Analysis of Technological and Intelligent Terrorism Impacts on Complex Technical Systems by N.A. Makhutov,G.B. Baecher Pdf

Insider knowledge about a complex technical system, coupled with access to its elements, has the potential to be used for triggering the most disastrous of terrorist attacks. Technological terrorism is the unauthorized impact on a complex technical system with the intention of breaking down its protection and initiating secondary catastrophic processes to cause damage and loss outside the facility. Intelligent terrorism, on the other hand, is the unauthorized purposeful interference in the processes of design, construction or maintenance of a complex technical system, and is either aimed at increasing existing vulnerabilities or creating new ones. This book is based on the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on ‘Comparative Analysis of Technological and Intelligence Terrorism Impacts on Complex Technical Systems’. It lays the foundation for a risk-informed approach to modeling, analyzing, managing and controlling complex technical systems in the face of terrorist attacks. To formulate such an approach, it is necessary to combine the insights of a spectrum of disciplines across engineering, human and social sciences, and economics. The book explains how an understanding of the vulnerabilities of complex technical systems to terrorist attack can reduce these vulnerabilities and contain or limit the impact of terrorism, and also the way in which such an understanding is crucial to the development of a set of design criteria and codes which will take such vulnerabilities into account. The book also identifies areas of further research and opportunities for future exchange and collaboration.

Author : Jim W. Hall,Robert J. Nicholls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107066021

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The Future of National Infrastructure by Jim W. Hall,Robert J. Nicholls Pdf

This book sets out a systematic approach to making long-term choices about national infrastructure systems, for practitioners, policy-makers and academics.

Author : Vicki Elmer,Adam Leigland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135906412

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Infrastructure Planning and Finance by Vicki Elmer,Adam Leigland Pdf

Infrastructure Planning and Finance is a non-technical guide to the engineering, planning, and financing of major infrastucture projects in the United States, providing both step-by-step guidance, and a broad overview of the technical, political, and economic challenges of creating lasting infrastructure in the 21st Century. Infrastructure Planning and Finance is designed for the local practitioner or student who wants to learn the basics of how to develop an infrastructure plan, a program, or an individual infrastructure project. A team of authors with experience in public works, planning, and city government explain the history and economic environment of infrastructure and capital planning, addressing common tools like the comprehensive plan, sustainability plans, and local regulations. The book guides readers through the preparation and development of comprehensive plans and infrastructure projects, and through major funding mechanisms, from bonds, user fees, and impact fees to privatization and competition. The rest of the book describes the individual infrastructure systems: their elements, current issues and a 'how-to-do-it' section that covers the system and the comprehensive plan, development regulations and how it can be financed. Innovations such as decentralization, green and blue-green technologies are described as well as local policy actions to achieve a more sustainable city are also addressed. Chapters include water, wastewater, solid waste, streets, transportation, airports, ports, community facilities, parks, schools, energy and telecommunications. Attention is given to how local policies can ensure a sustainable and climate friendly infrastructure system, and how planning for them can be integrated across disciplines.

Author : Chen Yunxian,Gu Wenjing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429841439

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Regional Government Competition by Chen Yunxian,Gu Wenjing Pdf

This monograph provides a coherent and systematic explanation of China’s regional economic development from the perspective of regional government competition. It gives an almost unknown exposition of the mechanisms of China's regional economic development, with numerous supporting cases drawn from both China and elsewhere. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested to learn more particularly the development and transformation of China’s regional economy from both the Chinese and global perspectives.

Author : Alireza Mohammadi,Luis Amador Jimenez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030976149

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Asset Management Decision-Making For Infrastructure Systems by Alireza Mohammadi,Luis Amador Jimenez Pdf

This textbook provides practical and concrete guidance for the step-by-step implementation of decision-making for infrastructure asset management. Examples are used to illustrate how data from condition assessment are used to develop performance models, to estimate the effectiveness of investments that are prioritized and scheduled to accomplish reliable and convenient infrastructure for the wellbeing of the public and regional economic competitiveness. Book illustrates numerous worked problems to clarify ambiguity in developing a decision-making platform to prioritize assets and distribute budgets effectively and efficiently. Ensures reader understanding of the benefits and challenges of infrastructure asset management; Provides a step-by-step guide for the development of each component of an asset management decision-making system; Includes worked examples to clarify decision-making and budget allocation process.

Author : Jonathan Metzger,Amy Rader Olsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135036171

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Sustainable Stockholm by Jonathan Metzger,Amy Rader Olsson Pdf

Sustainable Stockholm provides a historical overview of Stockholm’s environmental development, and also discusses a number of cross-disciplinary themes presenting the urban sustainability work behind Stockholm’s unique position, and importantly the question of how well Stockholm’s practices can be exported and transposed to other places and contexts. By using the case of Stockholm as the pivot of discussions, Sustainable Stockholm investigates the core issues of sustainable urban environmental development and planning, in all their entanglements. The book shows how intersecting fields such as urban planning and architecture, traffic planning, land-use regulation, building, waste management, regional development, water management, infrastructure engineering—together and in combination—have contributed to making Stockholm Europe’s "greenest" city.

Author : Zoltan J. Acs,Henri L.F. de Groot,Peter Nijkamp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540248231

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The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy by Zoltan J. Acs,Henri L.F. de Groot,Peter Nijkamp Pdf

Knowledge has in recent years become a key driver for growth of regions and nations. This volume empirically investigates the emergence of the knowledge economy in the late 20th century from a regional point of view. It first deals with the theoretical background for understanding the knowledge economy, with knowledge spillovers and development externalities. It then examines aspects of the relationship between knowledge inputs and innovative outputs in the information, computer and telecommunications sector (ICT) of the economy at the regional level. Case studies focusing on a wide variety of sectors, countries and regions finally illustrate important regional innovation issues.

Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788891703705

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The spatial strategies of Italian regions by AA. VV. Pdf

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