by Vance Tan | Nov 27, 2017 | Network risk analysis
Abstract Extreme weather events in China, expected to become increasingly common because of climate change, pose a grave threat to essential infrastructure that provides running water, electricity, road and railway connections. This research looks at the fundamental...
by Vance Tan | Nov 27, 2017 | Network risk analysis
Abstract Infrastructures such as energy, transport, water, waste, and telecommunications are essential to the sustainability, social wellbeing and economic prosperity of nations. In meeting future infrastructure needs of a growing global population there is a need for...
by Vance Tan | Nov 20, 2017 | Demographics
Abstract Nomisweb (“Nomis – Official Labour Market Statistics” 2017) provide an extremely useful API for querying and downloading UK census data. However, in practice data queries must be built manually and the query URL copied and pasted into user code. This...
by Vance Tan | Nov 19, 2017 | Demographics
Abstract Background: Microsimulation consists of a set of techniques for estimating characteristics and modelling change in populations of individuals. Aims: To demonstrate how microsimulation can be used by demographers who want to undertake population estimates and...
by Vance Tan | Nov 7, 2017 | Urban water
Abstract Recent developments in urban drainage modelling allow for a more realistic coupling of the two-dimensional (2D) surface and one-dimensional (1D) sub-surface drainage domain exchanging water through storm drain inlets instead of a sub-catchment approach based...
