Urban Infrastructure Management

Introduction

This GLOMACS Urban Infrastructure Management training course focuses on the complexity of the socio-technical systems that provide basic services to more than 50% of the world’s population. As the urban population continues to increase, the role played by urban infrastructures in the delivery of services (such as energy, transport, and water) becomes crucial. And in the view of the current crisis of energy supply, which was man-made, the management and governance of such complex socio-technical systems becomes vital to ensuring their performance.

This training course is dedicated to deliver information to the delegates about the main challenges as well as the main schools of thought in managing and governing urban infrastructures, which are currently prevalent in modern world. Urban Infrastructure management should provide an optimal and coherent approach to managing and expanding your urban infrastructure over the long term. It allows urban infrastructure managers to optimize investment and returns while supporting decision-makers in reconciling short-term pressures and long-term priorities.

This GLOMACS Urban Infrastructure Management training course will highlight:

• Principles and methods of urban infrastructure management
• Current challenges within the sustainability of energy use
• Urban infrastructure use of technology and communication
• Urban energy, transport, water, and food supply systems
• Modern risks and challenges within the urban infrastructure projects.

Objectives

At the end of this Urban Infrastructure Management training course, you will learn to:

• Identify the project management principles for urban infrastructure
• Learn the details of urban infrastructure
• Acquire the knowledge needed to tackle challenges of urban infrastructure management
• Adopt the use of modern technologies and timeless principles in urban infrastructure management
• Use the emerging and existing technologies for improving the level of service in urban infrastructure management

Training Methodology

Participants to this training course will receive a thorough training on the subjects covered by the course outline with the Tutor utilizing a variety of proven adult learning teaching and facilitation techniques, focused on real life examples from the countries around the world. The training methodology includes active participation in the preparation of urban infrastructure management projects.

Organisational Impact

The organization will benefit from understanding the guiding principles of urban infrastructure management, as the current situation in the world is showing that the countries can find themselves in significant problems if the modern challenges of urban infrastructure are not addressed in adequate and timely manner.

The participants on this Urban Infrastructure Management training course will:

• Enhance their analytical skills
• Learn how to introduce adoptive ITS infrastructure
• Be able to fully harness the power ITS management and adopt to new trends
• Introduce new technologies at lower costs
• Improve the transport sector level of service with lower investment
• Preform the simulation of traffic and transportation projects
• Organization will become adoptive and reduce their costs while at the same time serve stakeholders and the public at the highest level

Personal Impact

The participants will gain the following:

• Identifying the economic, social, political, and technological dimensions of urban infrastructure management
• Understanding how to use existing infrastructure and the possibility of its upgrades
• Learn how to use data for evaluation of best improvement options
• Recognize the usability of new trends
• Prepare for the challenges of urban energy, water, food and transport management