This paper describes a model for expressing critical infrastructure dependencies. The model addresses the limitations of existing approaches with respect to clarity of definition, support for quality and the influence of operating states of critical infrastructures and environmental factors.

The Doctorate in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering has been formed in the academic year 2008/2009 as a result of an effort of the previous departmental doctorates to merge their subjects in a culturally unified vision, where the environment is the common background. In this sense water, its physical behaviour in a natural and in a built context, is a primary constituent of the enviro...

The aim of this chapter is the presentation of studies and research results concerning environmental monitoring techniques promoted by Lepida SpA across a wide area, the Italian Emilia-Romagna Region. Lepida SpA Lepida SpA (2011) is an in house providing company established by a Regional Law (11/2004, “Regional Development of the Information Society”) of Emilia-Romagna region, which consolidate...

This study aims to develop a novel methodology to prioritize the construction of new railway infrastructures for privatization. The private sector can cooperate to solve the capacity problems of railway networks, by the construction of new infrastructure. The purpose of this study is to answer the basic question that whether the capacity problems of the railway networks can be solved simply by ...

Many of the current traditional system engineering (TSE) approaches for elicitation of requirements are insufficient when deployed in complex situations. TSE approach to requirement elicitation is based on assumption of stable environmental conditions. However, the elicitation of requirements for complex systems (i.e., interdependent critical infrastructures) requires innovative approaches that...

SUDPLAN aims at a new and visionary capacity to link existing environmental simulation models, information and sensor infrastructures, SDI’s and climatic scenario databases, providing visualization of long term forecasts of environmental factors for urban subsystems such as building and architecture, traffic and transport, landscape planning and local water runoff. End-users shall be enabled to...

Three german federal states developed a common platform for their environmental atlases. The web based platform leaves enough space for the partners to follow their own corporate design requirements. The main purpose is interactive spatial access to environmental information. The appearance may vary even for different users, in some cases to the point of process support. Furthermore the platfor...

Information systems built using standards‐based distributed services have become the default computing paradigm adopted by the geospatial community for building information infrastructures also known as Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). Government mandates such as the INSPIRE European Directive recommend standards for sharing resources (e.g. data and processes) with the goa...

Critical infrastructures are complex societal systems. For that reason, risk criteria for critical infrastructures are also “part” of the risk criteria for complex societal systems. The questions to be resolved are 1. are the societal risk criteria of complex systems defined and quantifiable 2. is known how the risk criteria of critical infrastructures relate to the risk criteria of the complex...