by Vance Tan | Mar 16, 2017 | Collaborations
The UK’s National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) is developing future strategies of infrastructure development, to inform it’s forthcoming National Infrastructure Assessment, due in 2018. Our infrastructure system-of-systems model, NISMOD, is helping to develop the...
by Vance Tan | Oct 16, 2016 | Collaborations
The National Needs Assessment (NNA) was an Institution of Civil Engineers initiative to examine the UK’s likely infrastructure needs in the coming decades – set against uncertainties such as climate change, population growth, global energy prices and economic...
by Vance Tan | Jun 28, 2016 | Collaborations
ITRC expertise was applied to understanding the implications of climate change on a long-life, interdependent project – HS2, the planned high-speed railway linking London and cities in the Midlands and North of England. Working with JBA Consulting and Met...
by Vance Tan | May 12, 2016 | Collaborations, Influencing policy
In 2015, we used NISMOD to assess the IUK National Infrastructure Pipeline, which consists of around 550 infrastructure projects with a budget of £438 billion for the next decade. We applied the NISMOD-LP model to analyse the sensitivity of the proposed IUK National...
by Vance Tan | Apr 24, 2016 | Collaborations
ITRC researchers conducted a network analysis of cascading failure risk in the electricity distribution system. This was a contribution to a report investigating the implications of an imagined cyberattack on one of the UK’s regional electricity distribution systems....
by Vance Tan | Mar 20, 2016 | Collaborations
ITRC has been working with UNOPS, an operational arm of the United Nations, to develop pioneering modelling tools, support and guidance to governments to enable robust future planning on national infrastructure. The tools include assistance for long-term planning,...