RESEARCH THEME 1
Integrated Urban Modelling
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Integrated Urban Modelling
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This research stream explored model integration techniques that can be used to constructed integrated models of urban areas at district-scale. Model integration initiatives can accelerate the move to trans-disciplinary and systems thinking, as they provide a focus for the process of discovering and resolving differences in assumptions, terminology, and methodology between scientists with different disciplinary backgrounds. In this sense, computational models act as detailed, explicit descriptions of scientific theories, and integrating them stimulates the development of a deeper cross-disciplinary understanding.

Our deliverables are a set of prototypes that demonstrate means by which models of urban systems can be represented as ‘networks of networks’. For example, one prototype allows users to reason about capacity-related issues in interdependent urban systems. The motivating use case is to support urban planners in reasoning about the impacts of urban interventions (e.g., zoning changes) on the ability of legacy infrastructure systems to deliver resources. The main concern here is to avoid overloading legacy infrastructure by exceeding its capacity constraints.

The second prototype shows how similar modeling techniques can support the use of a completely different set of use cases; it provides an integrated urban model that can be used for critical infrastructure protection. An analyst can label assets (e.g., buildings) with criticality levels in order to identify the most significant components in a network.

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RESEARCH THEMES Urban Informatics for Transportation Operations, Planning, & Decision making Urban Mobility & Integrated Urban Systems Design Visualization & Decision Support
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