Digital Infrastructures: Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology

✍ Scribed by Rae Zimmerman, Thomas A. Horan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: Networked Cities Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An invisible network of digital technology systems underlies the highly visible networks of roads, waterways, satellites, and power-lines. Increasingly, these systems are becoming the ''infrastructure's infrastructure,'' providing a crucial array of data on network demand, performance, reliability, and security. Digital Infrastructures presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the technological systems that envelop these networks. The book balances analyses of specific civil and environmental infrastructures with broader policy and management issues, including the challenges of using IT to manage these critical systems under crises conditions.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 10
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 12
Overview......Page 20
What are Digital Infrastructures?......Page 22
Technology and Engineering Dimensions: Collecting and Interpreting New Information for Civil and Environmental Infrastructure Management......Page 38
Management Challenges......Page 56
Policy Perspectives......Page 76
Infrastructure Sectors......Page 92
Water......Page 94
Transportation......Page 115
Electricity......Page 135
Telecommunications: Catastrophe and Recovery in the Information City......Page 160
Crosscutting Themes......Page 172
Economic Impacts: The Growing Use of Information Technology in Infrastructure Industries......Page 174
Infrastructure and IT Dimensions in the Developing World......Page 198
Green Design and Intelligent Buildings......Page 222
Infrastructure in the Age of Earth Systems Engineering and Management (ESEM)......Page 238
Conclusion......Page 254
Themes and New Directions......Page 256
INDEX......Page 268