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ITRC: The UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium
Prof Jim Hall, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Aim: To develop a new generation of system simulation models and methods to inform analysis, planning and design of national infrastructure in the energy, transport, water, waste and telecoms sectors..
Objectives:
- Balancing infrastructure capacity and demand under uncertainty. To develop methods for modelling capacity, demand and interdependence in the five infrastructure sectors in a compatible way that can then be used to test transition strategies under a wide range of technological, socio-economic and climate futures.
- Understanding the future risks of infrastructure failure. To develop network models to analyse the risks if interdependent infrastructure failure at a national scale in present and future climates and socio-economic scenarios and then to use these models to test network adaptation strategies.
- Managing infrastructure as a complex adaptive system. To develop simulation models of how infrastructure, the economy and urban/industrial land use evolve in the long term and to use them to demonstrate alternative long term futures for infrastructure provision and how they might be reached.
- Developing integrated strategies for transitions in national infrastructure systems. To work jointly with project partners in government and industry using the systems analysis methods delivered in the research programme, to develop long term strategies for infrastructure provision in the UK.
Website: ITRC
Further details: Download summary leaflet (pdf, 820 KB)
Project details: Download pdf (1.4 MB)
In the news: LWEC story – Preparing UK infrastructure for climate change
April 2011 Conference output:
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