Technical performance assessment of urban sewer systems

Performance assessment in urban water infrastructures is an increasingly important field of knowledge. Performance has traditionally been expressed in a variety of ways relating mostly to local design practice, with hardly any consensus on how it should be measured or compared. The efficient technic...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of performance of constructed facilities 2005-11, Vol.19 (4), p.339-346
Hauptverfasser: CARDOSO, Maria Adriana, COELHO, Sérgio T, PRACA, Paulo, BRITO, Rita S, MATOS, José
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Zusammenfassung:Performance assessment in urban water infrastructures is an increasingly important field of knowledge. Performance has traditionally been expressed in a variety of ways relating mostly to local design practice, with hardly any consensus on how it should be measured or compared. The efficient technical management of these systems deserves a specific approach, suited to the methodologies regularly employed while planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining the systems. At the engineering level, decisions are based on operational, physical, and resources data and on analyses deploying simulation models, geographic information systems, or other information systems. However, such tools tend to produce vast amounts of insufficiently aggregated or performance-oriented information. This paper presents a performance assessment system that is based on the decisional concept of utility functions and designed as a technical analysis tool with the purpose of shifting the focus of technical management of urban drainage systems to a performance-oriented view.
ISSN:0887-3828
1943-5509
DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3828(2005)19:4(339)