Interdependencies Impact on Sustainable Water Infrastructure Services
3rd International Exergy, Life Cycle Assessment, and Sustainability Workshop & Symposium (ELCAS-3): Proceedings of ELCAS 2013 2013
Anatolijs Zabašta, Emiliano Casaliccio, Nadežda Kuņicina

The broad challenge of this research is to develop new control tool for providing infrastructure services in a sustainable manner. In the last years some attempts have been provided to introduce smart control tools for water distribution system, as a part of critical infrastructure maintained in megalopolises and rural areas. Smartening Critical Infrastructure introduces inter-dependencies that increase vulnerability, as they give rise to multiple error propagation channels from one infrastructure to another. Such phenomena provide impact on environment, efficient usage of natural resources and sustainability. In this paper, starting from the state of the art and current best practice [14] we identified the most suitable set of metrics for the quantification of the interdependencies among Power, ICT and Water distributed network infrastructures. Moreover, we develop a simulation model based on state of the art theories and technologies to study the real case of Latvian city Ventspils. The proposed approaches for the analysis of critical inter-dependencies could be useful for practical adoption of methods and metrics for a broad number of Critical Infrastructures operators and stakeholders.


Atslēgas vārdi
Infrastructure services, Sustainable manner, Critical infrastructures interdependences; Failure propagation; Modelling and simulation.

Zabašta, A., Casaliccio, E., Kuņicina, N. Interdependencies Impact on Sustainable Water Infrastructure Services. No: 3rd International Exergy, Life Cycle Assessment, and Sustainability Workshop & Symposium (ELCAS-3): Proceedings of ELCAS 2013, Grieķija, Nisyros, 6.-10. jūlijs, 2013. Nisyros: COST TUD 1104 in support of Aristotel University of Thessaloniki, National Technical University of Athens, 2013, 661.-670.lpp. ISBN 978-960-243-691-2.

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