Project PI: Professor Phil Blyth
Sponsors: EPSRC
Partners: Cranfield University, University of Sheffield, University of Bristol
Website: gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/J005649/1
Start/end dates: 2011-2013
Contact: phil.blythe@ncl.ac.uk
Project Details
TUCP is an ambitious, innovative project which embraces multiple utility services (energy, water, ICT, transport). Major efficiency and resilience losses in these utilities occur at the points of conversion of resources, from extraction or capture through to end user services. The main aim of the project is to demonstrate that changes to existing resource conversion points for one utility in the context of emerging technologies and a service-user focus, will open new pathways to sustainable, adaptable and resilient infrastructure over the long-term.
TUCP objectives are:
- To describe the status quo of utilities' infrastructure conversion points and validate this with stakeholders;
- To identify technologies that have the potential to influence change in the resource to service delivery process;
- To agree a social systems categorization which defines different types of service user;
- To explore how new paradigms in the interaction between utility conversion points could rationalize service delivery, reduce inefficiencies and improve resilience through the adoption of new technology;
- create an agent-based model (ABM) which models changes to the infrastructure and its effect on service provision and infrastructure efficiency, giving utilities options for change in various time scales together with quantified results to produce a business case;
- To create a transition framework, which prioritizes integration and future change to conversion points and which takes a service-based perspective.
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