Study on the Development of Water Transport Network for Passengers in the Gulshan-Banani-HatirJheel Lake of the Capital City of Bangladesh

The object of this paper is to provide a flowmeter data validation/reconstruction methodology that determines the annual economic efficiency of a water transport network. In this paper, the case of Aigües Ter Llobregat (ATLL) company, which manages 80% of the overall water transport network in Catalonia (Spain), will be used for illustrating purposes. Economic network efficiency is based on daily data set collected by the company using about 200 flowmeters of the network. Data collected using these sensors are used by remote control and information storage systems and they are stored in a relational database. All information provided by ATLL is analysed to detect inconsistent data using an automatic data validation method deployed in parallel with the network efficiency evaluation. As a result of the validation process, corrections of flow measurements and of billed water volume are introduced. Results from ATLL water transport network corresponding to year 2010 will be used to illustrate the approach proposed in this paper.

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Economic Health-Aware LPV-MPC Based on System Reliability Assessment for Water Transport Network

Energies ◽

10.3390/en12153015 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (15) ◽

pp. 3015 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Fatemeh Karimi Pour ◽

Vicenç Puig ◽

Gabriela Cembrano

Keyword(s):

Water Transport ◽

Predictive Control ◽

System Reliability ◽

Optimization Problem ◽

Transport Network ◽

Linear Parameter Varying ◽

Control Approach ◽

Economic Model Predictive Control ◽

Economic Objective

This paper proposes a health-aware control approach for drinking water transport networks. This approach is based on an economic model predictive control (MPC) that considers an additional goal with the aim of extending the components and system reliability. The components and system reliability are incorporated into the MPC model using a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) modeling approach. The MPC controller uses additionally an economic objective function that determines the optimal filling/emptying sequence of the tanks considering that electricity price varies between day and night and that the demand also follows a 24-h repetitive pattern. The proposed LPV-MPC control approach allows considering the model nonlinearities by embedding them in the parameters. The values of these varying parameters are updated at each iteration taking into account the new values of the scheduling variables. In this way, the optimization problem associated with the MPC problem is solved by means of Quadratic Programming (QP) to avoid the use of nonlinear programming. This iterative approach reduces the computational load compared to the solution of a nonlinear optimization problem. A case study based on the Barcelona water transport network is used for assessing the proposed approach performance.

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Operational predictive optimal control of Barcelona water transport network

Control Engineering Practice ◽

10.1016/j.conengprac.2013.01.009 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 21 (8) ◽

pp. 1020-1034 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

J. Pascual ◽

J. Romera ◽

V. Puig ◽

G. Cembrano ◽

R. Creus ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Optimal Control ◽

Water Transport ◽

Transport Network

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Short-term demand forecasting for real-time operational control of the Barcelona water transport network

22nd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation ◽

10.1109/med.2014.6961503 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

J. Quevedo ◽

J. Saludes ◽

V. Puig ◽

J. Blanch

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Water Transport ◽

Demand Forecasting ◽

Transport Network ◽

Operational Control ◽

Short Term

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Operational Predictive Optimal Control of Barcelona Water Transport Network

IFAC Proceedings Volumes ◽

10.3182/20110828-6-it-1002.01079 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 10571-10578 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

J. Pascual ◽

J. Romera ◽

V. Puig ◽

R. Creus ◽

M. Minoves

Keyword(s):

Optimal Control ◽

Water Transport ◽

Transport Network

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BiOBr nanoplates@TiO2 nanowires/carbon fiber cloth as a functional water transport network for continuous flow water purification

Dalton Transactions ◽

10.1039/c6dt03887e ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 347-354 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Yan Mei ◽

Yanhui Su ◽

Zheng Li ◽

Shiqi Bai ◽

Mengyu Yuan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Carbon Fiber ◽

Water Transport ◽

Water Purification ◽

Continuous Flow ◽

Transport Network ◽

Tio2 Nanowires ◽

Carbon Fiber Cloth ◽

Water Purification System ◽

Purification System ◽

Hybrid Framework

A novel BiOBr@TiO2/carbon hybrid framework as a continuous flow sunlight water purification system has been reported in the present work.

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Role of transport network accessibility in the spread of COVID-19 - a case study in Savar Upazila, Bangladesh

Geospatial health ◽

10.4081/gh.2021.954 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Raju Ahmed ◽

Khandakar Hasan Mahmud ◽

Bibi Hafsa

Keyword(s):

Spatial Data ◽

Geographical Information Systems ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

Transport Network ◽

Capital City ◽

Geographical Information ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Transport Zone ◽

Processing Zone

The aim of this research was to test the hypothesis that people in a typical high-transport zone are particularly vulnerable with respect to transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a new contagious disease that has rapidly developed into a highrisk global problem. A case study was carried out in Savar Upazila, a sub-district of the capital city Dhaka in Bangladesh, which is traversed by a prominent national highway (Dhaka- Aricha-N5) that also passes the concentric industrial export processing zone surrounding Dhaka. This municipality is thus part of a high-density transport network with extensive economic activities. COVID-19 data were collected from local records at the Upazila Health Complex, while spatial data of the Savar Upazila, including the pertinent road network, were identified and digitized using geographical information systems software. The presence of COVID-19 in in Savar Upazila was found to be strongly associated with the reach and mechanism of transport networks (Pearson correlation = 0.76 with 99% confidence interval).

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Flowmeter data validation and reconstruction methodology to provide the annual efficiency of a water transport network: the ATLL case study in Catalonia

Drinking Water Engineering and Science Discussions ◽

10.5194/dwesd-6-79-2013 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 79-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. Quevedo ◽

J. Pascual ◽

V. Puig ◽

J. Saludes ◽

R. Sarrate ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Water Transport ◽

Transport Network ◽

Information Storage ◽

Data Validation ◽

Network Efficiency ◽

Data Set ◽

Flow Measurements ◽

Automatic Data ◽

Daily Data ◽

Hydraulic Network

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The object of this paper is to provide a flowmeter data validation/reconstruction methodology that determines the annual economic and hydraulic efficiency of a water transport network. In this paper, the case of Aigües Ter Llobregat (ATLL) company, that is in charge of managing the 80% of the overall water transport network in Catalonia (Spain), will be used for illustrating purposes. The economic/hydraulic network efficiency is based on the daily data set collected by the company using about 200 flowmeters of the network. The data collected using these sensors are used by the remote control and information storage systems and they are stored in a relational database. All the information provided by ATLL is analyzed to detect inconsistent data using an automatic data validation method deployed in parallel with the evaluation of the network efficiency. As a result of the validation process, corrections of flow measurements and of the volume of billed water are introduced. The results of the ATLL water transport network obtained during year 2010 will be used to illustrate the approach proposed in this paper.</p>

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Integrated Wellington region land transport resilience study

Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering ◽

10.5459/bnzsee.54.2.163-175 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 163-175

Author(s):

Pathmanathan Brabhaharan

Keyword(s):

Natural Hazards ◽

Business Case ◽

The State ◽

Transport Network ◽

Capital City ◽

Land Access ◽

State Highway ◽

Local Roads ◽

Wet Climate ◽

Very High

Wellington region’s transport network has poor resilience to natural hazards, given the rugged terrain, high seismicity and wet climate. This exposes the land access to the region and the capital city to be potentially cut off from the rest of New Zealand for several months, and its cities to be isolated from each other. This paper reports on a pioneering integrated resilience study of the entire land transport system in the region provided by the state highways, principal and arterial local roads and the railway system. The study considered resilience risks from a range of natural hazards (earthquake, storm and tsunami) using the metrics of availability and outage. The resilience risks and the relative importance of the routes were used to assess the criticality of these risks for future investment in resilience enhancement. The criticality also considered risks to other lifeline utilities - power, water and telecommunications that share these transport corridors. The combined criticality was used to prioritise these resilience risks. The highest criticality resilience risks were classified into extreme, very high and high levels. The extreme criticality risks identified were the state highway between Ngauranga and Petone and the adjacent Ngauranga interchange between the two State Highways 1 and 2, which together provide access between Wellington, Hutt and Porirua cities. A range of very high risks were identified across the region which included both state highways and local roads. This novel resilience study provided the basis for a subsequent business case for future investment to enhance the resilience of the region’s transport network.

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