by Vance Tan | Mar 27, 2014 | Infrastructure systems
Abstract Infrastructure systems are large scale socio-technical systems, embedded within the society, supporting and enabling a myriad of societal processes. Understanding and shaping their evolution is essential if we are to rise to the challenges of climate change,...
by Vance Tan | Mar 27, 2014 | Complex adaptive systems
Abstract Infrastructure’s fundamental role in developed economies of enabling and mediating spatial flows of resources, goods, and services, is widely acknowledged and the provision of resilient, effective National Infrastructure (NI) systems has become a focus of...
by Vance Tan | Mar 27, 2014 | Infrastructure systems
Abstract The appraisal of infrastructure in the UK has developed over time to include multiple attributes, sensitivity analysis and even development pathways. The Department of Transport’s WebTAG methodology, for example, is arguably the most comprehensive transport...
by Vance Tan | Mar 27, 2014 | Economic impacts
Abstract Investment in infrastructure is recognised as a key driver of economic prosperity, but it is also important for addressing social and environmental challenges, including climate change mitigation. The UK Government Strategy Investing in Britain’s Future...
by Vance Tan | Mar 27, 2014 | Transport
Abstract While the broad economic principles underlying the logic of land redevelopment are well established in urban theory, our understanding of the spatial parameters of this phenomenon remains quite murky. We have very little empirical evidence to answer basic...
