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Assessing the long-term performance of cross-sectoral strategies for national infrastructure

Assessing the long-term performance of cross-sectoral strategies for national infrastructure
Assessing the long-term performance of cross-sectoral strategies for national infrastructure
National infrastructure systems (energy, transport, digital communications, water, and waste) provide essential services to society. Although for the most part these systems developed in a piecemeal way, they are now an integrated and highly interdependent “system of systems.” However, understanding the long-term performance trajectory of national infrastructure has proved to be very difficult because of the complexity of these systems (in physical and institutional terms) and because there is little tradition of thinking cross-sectorally about infrastructure system performance. Here, a methodology is proposed for analyzing national multisectoral infrastructure systems performance in the context of uncertain futures, incorporating interdependencies in demand across sectors. Three contrasting strategies are considered for infrastructure provision (capacity intensive, capacity constrained, and decentralized) and multiattribute performance metrics are analyzed in the context of low, medium, and high demographic and economic growth scenarios. The approach is illustrated using Great Britain and provides the basis for the development and testing of long-term strategies for national infrastructure provision. It is especially applicable to mature industrial economics with a large stock of existing infrastructure and challenges of future infrastructure provision.

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Hall, J.W., Henriques, J.J. and Hickford, A.J. et al. , Watson, J.W. (ed.) (2014) Assessing the long-term performance of cross-sectoral strategies for national infrastructure. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 20 (3). (doi:10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000196).

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National infrastructure systems (energy, transport, digital communications, water, and waste) provide essential services to society. Although for the most part these systems developed in a piecemeal way, they are now an integrated and highly interdependent “system of systems.” However, understanding the long-term performance trajectory of national infrastructure has proved to be very difficult because of the complexity of these systems (in physical and institutional terms) and because there is little tradition of thinking cross-sectorally about infrastructure system performance. Here, a methodology is proposed for analyzing national multisectoral infrastructure systems performance in the context of uncertain futures, incorporating interdependencies in demand across sectors. Three contrasting strategies are considered for infrastructure provision (capacity intensive, capacity constrained, and decentralized) and multiattribute performance metrics are analyzed in the context of low, medium, and high demographic and economic growth scenarios. The approach is illustrated using Great Britain and provides the basis for the development and testing of long-term strategies for national infrastructure provision. It is especially applicable to mature industrial economics with a large stock of existing infrastructure and challenges of future infrastructure provision.

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Accepted/In Press date: 20 February 2014
Published date: September 2014
Organisations: Infrastructure Group, Energy & Climate Change Group, Transportation Group

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Local EPrints ID: 368579
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/368579
ISSN: 1076-0342
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ORCID for W. Powrie: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2271-0826
ORCID for J.M. Preston: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6866-049X
ORCID for A. Stringfellow: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8873-0010
ORCID for G.V.R. Watson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3074-5196

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Author: J.W. Hall
Author: J.J. Henriques
Author: A.J. Hickford ORCID iD
Author: R.J. Nicholls ORCID iD
Author: P. Baruah
Author: M. Birkin
Author: M. Chaudry
Author: T.P. Curtis
Author: N. Eyre
Author: C. Jones
Author: C.G. Kilsby
Author: A. Leathard
Author: A. Lorenz
Author: N. Malleson
Author: F. McLeod ORCID iD
Author: W. Powrie ORCID iD
Author: J.M. Preston ORCID iD
Author: N. Rai
Author: R. Street
Author: A. Stringfellow ORCID iD
Author: C. Thoung
Author: P. Tyler
Author: R. Velykiene
Author: G.V.R. Watson ORCID iD
Editor: J.W. Watson

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