by Vance Tan | Nov 7, 2017 | Water supply
Introduction As part of its work on the National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA) the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has been developing scenarios to help understand how the UK’s future infrastructure requirements could change in response to different...
by Vance Tan | Oct 31, 2017 | Demographics
Abstract Established methods for synthesising a population from geographically aggregated data are robust and well understood. However, most rely on the potentially detrimental process of integerisation if a whole individual population is required, e.g. for use in...
by Vance Tan | Oct 28, 2017 | Network risk analysis
Abstract While emerging regional evidence shows that atmospheric rivers (ARs) can exert strong impacts on local water availability and flooding, their role in shaping global hydrological extremes has not yet been investigated. Here we quantify the relative...
by Vance Tan | Oct 13, 2017 | Collaborations, Influencing policy
Today (13 October 2017) the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) launched its interim National Infrastructure Assessment, which sets out its vision and priorities for meeting the UK’s long-term infrastructure needs. The NIC is the government’s independent body...
by Vance Tan | Oct 2, 2017 | Infrastructure systems
11–13 September 2017, London The International Symposia for Next Generation Infrastructure (ISNGI) meeting in 2017 brought together a global community of infrastructure academics, policy and industry professionals. The event aimed to share progress, knowledge and new...