Title

Quality Data for Strategic Infrastructure Decisions in Ireland

Authors

Mary Moloney, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, IrelandFollow
Ted McKenna, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, IrelandFollow
Kevin Fitzgibbon, NIMBUS Centre for Embedded Systems, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, IrelandFollow
Eamon McKeogh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Document Type

Article

Disciplines

Data Storage Systems | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Publication Details

Infrastructure Asset Management

© ICE Publishing 2017

Abstract

There is a need for change in Ireland’s current decision-making process for infrastructure planning and investment, moving away from the historic silo-type mentality, where each project is evaluated in isolation. This paper proposes the development of a ‘systems of systems’ (SoS) methodology for Ireland’s national infrastructure planning and delivery, using dynamic modelling. Building information modelling offers the methodologies and technologies to develop the required digital asset database to best inform life cycle decisions associated with conception, design, construction and operation of physical infrastructure assets. By developing the appropriate digital asset database, the demand for new infrastructure can itself be tested, in an SoS methodology, under various policy scenarios, to provide evidence for investment decisions. Ireland has a poor level of national asset registers and data sets, the building blocks for infrastructure network models. This paper evaluates the availability of the data sets necessary to develop such a methodology.

Recommended Citation

Moloney, M., McKenna, T., Fitzgibbon, K. & McKeogh, E., 2017. Quality data for strategic infrastructure decisions in Ireland. Infrastructure Asset Management, 4, 40-49