"INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR URBAN PLANNING:

A Hypermedia Co-operative Approach"

Written by Robert Laurini, Published by Taylor and Francis, London


Chapter 11: Real Time Information Systems for Urban Environment and Risks Monitoring


11.2 Real-time systems for environmental control

Figure 11.1 Functional architecture of a real-time information system for air pollution control.

Figure 11.2 Sketch of a computer system for river pollution monitoring.

Figure 11.3 Description of the system for the monitoring of the Venitian lagoon (Cambruzzi et al., 1999).

11.2 Towards telegeomonitoring

Correction for INMARSAT: http://217.204.152.210/

Figure 11.4 Schema of a system for the monitoring of toll motorway traffic (Tanzi et al. 98, Laurini 1999).

11.3 Computer Architecture

Figure 11.5Centralised telegeomonitoring architecture.

Figure 11.6 Co-operative architecture for telegeomonitoring.

Figure 11.7 A single vehicle can belong to several telegeomonitoring systems ownership diagram.

Figure 11.8 Environment of a real time decision support system [TAN 98].

Figure 11.9 Functional details for central and embarked systems.

11.4 Urban major risk management

http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/

11.4.1 Main action phases

http://www.fema.gov/

11.4.2 Information requirements

Figure 11.10 The operational concepts of an urban risk system (After Cochran-Power, 1999). Published with permission

Figure 11.11 Relationships between stakeholders, requirements and

system architecture via structure discussions (After Cochran-Power, 1999).

Published with permission.

http://www.regis.berkeley.edu/glinks/mdata/bayrisk94.html

11.4.4 Urban risk mapping and GIS

http://cenas.dmsa.unipd.it/results/littoral/littoral.html

http://cenas.dmsa.unipd.it/results/littoral/fig30.html

 

11.4.5 Information to citizens concerning risks

Figure 11.13 Home page of an extranet system for information towards citizens

for urban areas' risk management and control.

Correction for Genoa: http://www.provincia.genova.it/pdb/pdb03.htm

New : Gerico system for Lyon, France (prototype): http://intracom-cite.univ-aix.fr/Mpract/Gerico/titre.htm

New: Amav Venezia http://www.iuav.it/citiesonwater/

New RADIUS: http://geohaz.org/radius/

Portal for risks in France: http://www.environnement.gouv.fr/actua/cominfos/dosdir/DIRPPR/dosdppr.htm

New: Majors risks in Isere, France: http://www.ac-grenoble.fr/risqmaj/realisations/index.htm

Also in France: http://www.educnet.education.fr/securite/indrmaj.htm

http://www.maine-et-loire.pref.gouv.fr/risques/index.htm

http://www.aude.pref.gouv.fr/ddrm/@@Aude00.htm

In Switzerland: http://www.unige.ch/hazards/

In Chile: http://www.proinco.net/staff/mogens/riesgo/

11.5 Example of a telegeomonitoring system for hazmat transportation planning

Figure 11.19 Basic scenario of the functioning of the spatial decision support system for hazmat transportation

11.6 Humanitarian assistance and disaster management

GeoWorlds project: http://www.isi.edu/geoworlds/

Disaster management FORMIDABLE project : http://www.formidable-project.org/


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