scholarly journals Hydrogen Station Location Planning via Geodesign in Connecticut: Comparing Optimization Models and Structured Stakeholder Collaboration

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 7747
Author(s):  
Oscar Lopez Jaramillo ◽  
Joel Rinebold ◽  
Michael Kuby ◽  
Scott Kelley ◽  
Darren Ruddell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
Stakeholder Collaboration ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Facility Location Problems ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Hydrogen Station ◽  
Station Location

Geodesign is a participatory planning approach in which stakeholders use geographic information systems to develop and vet alternative design scenarios in a collaborative and iterative process. This study is based on a 2019 geodesign workshop in which 17 participants from industry, government, university, and non-profit sectors worked together to design an initial network of hydrogen refueling stations in the Hartford, Connecticut, metropolitan area. The workshop involved identifying relevant location factors, rapid prototyping of station network designs, and developing consensus on a final design. The geodesign platform, which was designed specifically for facility location problems, enables breakout groups to add or delete stations with a simple point-and-click operation, view and overlay different map layers, compute performance metrics, and compare their designs to those of other groups. By using these sources of information and their own expert local knowledge, participants recommended six locations for hydrogen refueling stations over two distinct phases of station installation. We quantitatively and qualitatively compared workshop recommendations to solutions of three optimal station location models that have been used to recommend station locations, which minimize travel times from stations to population and traffic or maximize trips that can be refueled on origin–destination routes. In a post-workshop survey, participants rated the workshop highly for facilitating mutual understanding and information sharing among stakeholders. To our knowledge, this workshop represents the first application of geodesign for hydrogen refueling station infrastructure planning.

scholarly journals Socio-economic resilience of Pidie Jaya to against disaster in the terms of national security

2021 ◽  
Vol 331 ◽  
pp. 02006
Author(s):  
Riskina Tri Januarti ◽  
Heridadi ◽  
Achmed Sukendro ◽  
Rio Khoirudin Apriyadi ◽  
Dandung Ruskar
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Aceh Province

Pidie Jaya (Piday) District of Aceh Province is a newly formed district in 2007. In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pidie Jaya district also experienced a series of disasters throughout 2020. Nevertheless, the Piday District Human Development Index (HDI) in 2017 exceeded the National achievement. But piday district poverty ranks 3rd in the Province. This has the potential to make the Piday district prone to disasters in addition to geographical location factors. Therefore, the existence of such gaps in this study will be discussed. This study uses qualitative methods through descriptive narrative approaches. Sources of information and data were obtained through Focus Group Decision (FGD) from several sources and studies of some literature. The results stated that the gap is due to economic development being less evenly distributed and less felt by lower-level people. This is due to low education factors and lack of capital for farmers and fishermen as the majority of workers in Piday District. The research suggests increasing community capacity and resilience by 1) Improving the quality of human resources for farmers and fishermen in the form of education and training based on improving the economy and living standards of farming communities wrapped in local wisdom; 2) Infrastructure development both facilities and infrastructure; 3) Provision of capital and ease of access in business and insurance coverage against disasters by taking into account local wisdom; 4) Empowerment of the role and involvement of local community leaders in the formulation of policies and local government institutions.

scholarly journals Methodology Development to Locate Hydrogen Stations for the Initial Deployment Stage

2019 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 01014
Author(s):  
Kenshi Itaoka ◽  
Seiichiro Kimura ◽  
Katsuhiko Hirose
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
National Level ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Methodology Development ◽  
Commercial Market ◽  
Potential Demand ◽  
Hydrogen Station ◽  
Station Location

Hydrogen station deployment needs to be progressed in response to the introduction of fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to the commercial market. Since resources allocated for deployment are limited for either private companies who wish to install stations and governments who provide subsidies, efficient station allocation should be cognizant of the service of potential customers. Based on a literature review, the results of a social survey and data analysis, p-median is chosen to find optimum locations for hydrogen stations. Location and the amount on potential demand for FCV’s in the early stage of deployment is estimated by a regression model. The result of GIS analysis for both 2020 and 2025 using p-median implies the importance of covering regional hub cities (such as prefectural capital cities) as well as metropolises. The coverage rate of potential FCV demand is around 60% at the national level, and exceeds 70 to 80 percent when limited to urban areas for the 400-station allocation. The geographical tendency of station locations allocated by the developed methodology provides guidance for hydrogen station location practice.

scholarly journals GREATER LONDON POLICE: ORIGINS AND CURRENT STATUS

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (07) ◽  
pp. 148-160
Author(s):  
S.V. Pronkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Government ◽  
City Council ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Role Changes ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
History Of

The article is devoted to the interaction of the police and the elected bodies of Greater London-its Administration and municipal districts (boroughs) - in ensuring law and order. Both the history of the issue and its current state are touched upon. The foreign experience of interaction of the authorities in the maintenance of public security is of interest to the Russian Federation, which continues to search for effective forms of regional and municipal government, its place in the implementation of state functions. The experience of the United Kingdom is of particular interest in this regard, since in this country, the municipal and regional (self) government has historically developed significantly. The article mainly uses political and legal documents as sources of information. The author concludes that historically municipalities and local social forces played a crucial role in ensuring public security. It was typically for a «small state» with a tiny bureaucratic apparatus. Then government bodies played this role. Changes in the organization of the police were associated with the transition from the traditional rural society to modern urbanized. This required the creation of a professional centrally managed police force. The reform lasted for several decades. It’s important stage – Home office secretary R. Peel′s activity. Currently, efforts are being made to entrust the elected regional and municipal authorities with a new mission in ensuring public security – the exercise of democratic control over the activities of the police. In London this control is carried out by the mayor and the city council – Assembly. Municipal districts coordinate the activities of public services, civil, non-profit organization, business and individual citizens to ensure security in their territory.

scholarly journals A New Improved Voltage Stability Assessment Index-centered Integrated Planning Approach for Multiple Asset Placement in Mesh Distribution Systems

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 3163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazmi ◽  
Shin
Keyword(s):  
Distribution System ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Voltage Stability ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Stability Assessment ◽  
Integrated Planning ◽  
Loss Minimization ◽  
Assessment Index ◽  
Planning Approach

This paper offers a new improved voltage stability assessment index (VSAI_B)-centered planning approach, aiming at the attainment of technical and cost related objectives with simultaneous multiple asset deployment in a mesh distribution systems (MDS). The assets such as multiple distributed generation (DG) and distributed static compensator (D-STATCOM) units have been utilized; aiming at voltage stabilization, loss minimization, and associated objectives. The proposed planning approach incorporates expressions of VSAI_B aiming at initial simultaneous assets placement followed by loss minimization conditions (LMC) for appropriate asset sizing, which is further utilized for performance evaluations. The VSAI_B-LMC-based integrated planning approach is applied to configured MDS models such as a 33-bus test distribution system (TDS) for detailed analysis. The performance evaluations with the presented approach have been conducted for different cases along with respective scenarios considering various technical and cost-economic performance metrics. First, three cases referring to multiple DGs sitting and sizing for various power factors have been presented, followed later by two cases of multiple DGs and D-STATCOMs with respective evaluation scenarios. Finally, benchmark analysis is conducted on a 69-bus TDS for validity demonstration of the proposed approach. The comparison of achieved results in comparison with the available literature points out toward the validity and improved performance of the proposed approach.

Building Consensus in (Not so) Hostile Territory: Applying Anthropology to Strategic Planning

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
Keith Sturges
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Stakeholder Collaboration ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multistep Process ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Available Resources

Thanks to the Reagan era's emphasis on justifying programs that had been established to serve the public good, goal-oriented planning has become somewhat ubiquitous. Strategic planning is a multistep process that involves several key elements. First, it is strategic; it depicts a coordinated and systematic process for optimizing available resources. It also presents a framework for aligning an organization's purposes, goals, and objectives. Ideally, that framework increases the likelihood that objectives and activities associated with them are measurable and communicated effectively to stakeholders and that initiatives are feasible given available resources. Strategic planning designed to establish organizational goals and to create processes for achieving them often overlooks the potential strengths of stakeholder collaboration. Applied anthropology can make considerable contributions to strategic planning for non-profit organizations.

A review of hydrogen station location models

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (39) ◽  
pp. 20176-20183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong-Heng Lin ◽  
Ze-Zhou Ye ◽  
Bu-Dan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Location Models ◽  
Hydrogen Station ◽  
Station Location

scholarly journals IT in Education Organization: A Strategic Planning Approach

10.28945/2474 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syahrul Fahmy ◽  
Abdul Razak Hamdan ◽  
Aziz Deraman
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Strategic Direction ◽  
Education Organization ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Analysis Strategy ◽  
It Education ◽  
It Strategic Planning ◽  
Five Phases

Information Technology (IT) has significant impacts to modern organizations especially in assisting daily operations and meeting business targets. Main contributions of IT to organizations are increased efficiency, effectiveness and competitiveness. Non-profit organizations can also benefit as much as for-profit organizations from IT. Education Organizations (EOs) for example, would benefit in terms of effective management of assets, improved communication channels, management of education system changes and systematic dissemination of academic materials. This paper proposes an IT Strategic Planning (ITSP) framework for EOs in order to plan and manage IT-related resources. The framework comprises of five phases namely Strategic Direction, Analysis, Strategy, Implementation and Evaluation. End result of this process would be the ITSP Manual, a detailed documentation of the organization’s strategic direction, its environment and specific action plans to achieve business targets. This manual can be used in policy and decision-making activities.

Practical IMP Performance Metrics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremiah P. Konell ◽  
Jack Van Schenck ◽  
Joseph P. Bratton ◽  
Steven J. Polasik
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Operational Risk ◽  
Hazardous Materials ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Job Roles ◽  
The Public

Annually or as events occur, operators submit data to various regulatory agencies about the operation, maintenance and extent of their assets. Many of these figures are used by the public, non-profit organizations and private companies to independently conduct assessments about operators, ranging from safety to quality assurance to scope and nature of product deliveries. The Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the National Energy Board (NEB), and other industry organizations have recently put an emphasis on more meaningful metrics by releasing guidelines and leading discussions at industry conferences and workshops. In order to derive more strategic accuracy and pertinence, Explorer Pipeline Company (Explorer) and Det Norske Veritas (U.S.A.), Inc. (DNV GL) have developed a procedural effort to develop meaningful metrics. Several derivative benefits come from this effort such as support for calculating cost-benefit / ROI figures for maintenance projects, justification for compliance-plus activities and, most importantly, a more informed perspective of operational risk. A renewed approach to this effort is to organize the more meaningful factors into three categories: (1) Metrics of job roles and tasks within Explorer’s Asset Integrity staff, (2) Other existing influential metrics (3) Regulatory metrics. Using this approach, Explorer defined well-targeted, unitized metrics, each with a meaningful basis. Explorer anticipates the development of these more meaningful metrics to support the transparency sought by regulators and other stakeholders, benchmark and continually evaluate our Asset Integrity program and possibly support the development of practical metrics for the pipeline industry.

scholarly journals A bioinformatics WGS workflow for clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolate analysis, validated using a reference collection extensively characterized with conventional methods and in silico approaches

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Bogaerts ◽  
Thomas Delcourt ◽  
Karine Soetaert ◽  
Samira Boarbi ◽  
Pieter-Jan Ceyssens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis ◽  
In Silico ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Complete Characterization ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Public Data ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Phenotypic Methods ◽  
Bioinformatics Workflow

The use of whole genome sequencing (WGS) for routine typing of bacterial isolates has increased substantially in recent years. For Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), in particular, WGS has the benefit of drastically reducing the time to generate results compared to most conventional phenotypic methods. Consequently, a multitude of solutions for analyzing WGS MTB data have been developed, but their successful integration in clinical and national reference laboratories is hindered by the requirement for their validation, for which a consensus framework is still largely absent. We developed a bioinformatics workflow for (Illumina) WGS-based routine typing of MTB Complex (MTBC) member isolates allowing complete characterization including (sub)species confirmation and identification (16S, csb/RD, hsp65), Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP)-based antimicrobial resistance (AMR) prediction, and pathogen typing (spoligotyping, SNP barcoding, and core genome MultiLocus Sequence Typing). Workflow performance was validated on a per-assay basis using a collection of 238 in-house sequenced MTBC isolates, extensively characterized with conventional molecular biology-based approaches supplemented with public data. For SNP-based AMR prediction, results from molecular genotyping methods were supplemented with in silico modified datasets allowing to greatly increase the set of evaluated mutations. The workflow demonstrated very high performance with performance metrics >99% for all assays, except for spoligotyping where sensitivity dropped to ∼90%. The validation framework for our WGS-based bioinformatics workflow can aid standardization of bioinformatics tools by the MTB community and other SNP-based applications regardless of the targeted pathogen(s). The bioinformatics workflow is available for academic and non-profit usage through the Galaxy instance of our institute at https://galaxy.sciensano.be.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document