Digital Infrastructures (eBook, ePUB)

Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology
Redaktion: Horan, Thomas; Zimmerman, Rae

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134345625
• Artikelnr.: 47884667

Autorenporträt

Thomas Horan, Rae Zimmerman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Part I: Overview 1. What are Digital Infrastructures? Rae
Zimmerman and Thomas Horan 2. Technology and Engineering Dimensions William
O'Brien and Luis Soibelman 3. Management Challenges Thomas Horan and Roy
Sparrow 4. Policy Perspectives Jonathan Gifford Part II: Infrastructure
Cases 5. Water Rae Zimmerman 6. Transportation Christopher Cluett 7.
Electricity Massoud Amin 8. Telecommunications Mitchell Moss and Anthony
Townsend Part III: Crosscutting Issues 9. Economics of Information
Technology David Henry and Jess Dumagan 10. Infrastructure and IT
Dimensions in the Developing World Carlos Restrepo 11. Green Design
Principles Timothy Beatley 12. Earth Systems Engineering Braden Allenby
Part IV: Conclusion 13. Themes and New Directions Thomas Horan and Rae
Zimmerman