TY  - JOUR
VL  - 101
AV  - public
Y1  - 2018/03//
SP  - 146
EP  - 168
TI  - An integrated optimisation platform for sustainable resource and infrastructure planning
N1  - Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND
license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.11.034
SN  - 1364-8152
N2  - It is crucial for sustainable planning to consider broad environmental and social dimensions and systemic implications of new infrastructure to build more resilient societies, reduce poverty, improve human well-being, mitigate climate change and address other global change processes. This article presents resilience.io, 2 a platform to evaluate new infrastructure projects by assessing their design and effectiveness in meeting growing resource demands, simulated using Agent-Based Modelling due to socio-economic population changes. We then use Mixed-Integer Linear Programming to optimise a multi-objective function to find cost-optimal solutions, inclusive of environmental metrics such as greenhouse gas emissions. The solutions in space and time provide planning guidance for conventional and novel technology selection, changes in network topology, system costs, and can incorporate any material, waste, energy, labour or emissions flow. As an application, a use case is provided for the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector for a four million people city-region in Ghana.
ID  - discovery10043930
A1  - Triantafyllidis, CP
A1  - Koppelaar, RHEM
A1  - Wang, X
A1  - van Dam, KH
A1  - Shah, N
KW  - Integrated Environmental Modelling (IEM)
KW  -  Decision support
KW  -  Sub-Saharan Africa
KW  -  WASH
KW  -  Agent-Based Modelling
KW  -  Mathematical Programming
JF  - Environmental Modelling and Software
ER  -