Abstract
Research in urban water management has experienced a transition from traditional model applications to modelling water cycles as an integrated part of urban areas. This includes the interlinking of models of many research areas (e.g. urban development, socio-economy, urban water management). The integration and simulation is realized in newly developed frameworks (e.g. DynaMind and OpenMI) and often assumes a high knowledge in programming. This work presents a Web based urban water management modelling platform which simplifies the setup and usage of complex integrated models. The platform is demonstrated with a small application example on a case study within the Alpine region. The used model is a DynaMind model benchmarking the impact of newly connected catchments on the flooding behaviour of an existing combined sewer system. As a result the workflow of the user within a Web browser is demonstrated and benchmark results are shown. The presented platform hides implementation specific aspects behind Web services based technologies such that the user can focus on his main aim, which is urban water management modelling and benchmarking. Moreover, this platform offers a centralized data management, automatic software updates and access to high performance computers accessible with desktop computers and mobile devices.
Highlights
In the last few years, research in urban water management has experienced a transition from traditional model applications to modelling water cycles as an integrated part of urban areas
This paper presents the basic ideas and concepts of such a Web based urban water management modelling platform by using Web service based technologies
Implementation specific aspects are hidden and kept away from the user, so that they can focus on their main aim
Summary
In the last few years, research in urban water management has experienced a transition from traditional model applications to modelling water cycles as an integrated part of urban areas. It provides a platform for researchers and planners to combine urban water specific performance models, geographic information system (GIS) functionality, efficient data management and data visualization (Urich et al ). The challenge is to provide end users (such as decision-makers, etc.) and Downloaded from http://iwaponline.com/wst/article-pdf/70/11/1838/175052/1838.pdf by guest
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