To connect or not to connect? Modelling the optimal degree of centralisation for wastewater infrastructures

Water Research

Volumn 84, Issue , 2015, Pages 218-231

  Eggimann, Sven ^a,b   Truffer, Bernhard ^a,c   Maurer, Max ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Algorithmic network generation; Degree of centralisation; Geographic information system; Sewer modelling; Sustainable network infrastructure planning; Wastewater infrastructure

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SEWERS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CENTRALISATION; HIERARCHICAL AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; NETWORK GENERATION; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; SHORTEST PATH FINDINGS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ALGORITHM; CENTRALIZATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPLEX TERRAIN; GIS; HEURISTICS; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; SEWER NETWORK; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CENTRALIZATION; COST CONTROL; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWER; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; TOPOGRAPHY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER SUPPLY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WASTE WATER;

SWITZERLAND;

WASTE WATER;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84939539475     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.07.004     Document Type: Article

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