City infrastructure ontologies

Du, Heshan; Wei, Lijun; Dimitrova, Vania; Magee, Derek; Clarke, Barry; Collins, Richard; Entwisle, David; Eskandari Torbaghan, Mehran; Curioni, Giulio; Stirling, Ross; Reeves, Helen; Cohn, Anthony G

Abstract

Sustainable urban infrastructure planning and maintenance require an integrated approach that considers various infrastructure assets (e.g., the ground, roads, and buried pipes) and their inter-linkages as a holistic system. To facilitate the usage of this integrated approach, we propose a model of city infrastructure assets and their interdependencies, providing details on how asset properties and processes affect each other. This model is represented as ontologies in OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax, which can be read and interpreted by machines automatically. These ontologies cover the classifications, properties and processes of the ground, roads and buried water pipes, as well as some related human activities and natural phenomena (e.g., precipitation). The ontologies not only provide a foundation for integrating various types of infrastructure and environmental data, but also for understanding the potential knock-on effects of asset failures. The ontologies have been utilised in a decision support system for integrated urban inter-asset management.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 22, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Jun 8, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-09
• Deposit Date: Jun 16, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 16, 2023
• Journal: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
• Print ISSN: 0198-9715
• Electronic ISSN: 1873-7587
• Publisher: Elsevier BV
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 104
• Article Number: 101991
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2023.101991
• Keywords: City infrastructure; Model; Ontology; Integrated inter-asset management
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/21915130
• Publisher URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971523000546
• Additional Information: This article is maintained by: Elsevier; Article Title: City infrastructure ontologies; Journal Title: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems; CrossRef DOI link to publisher maintained version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2023.101991; Content Type: article; Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.