Multi Criteria Decision Analysis to Set the Priority of Interventions in Water Distribution Systems

6 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Cristiana Bragalli, Federica Giansanti, Lorenzo Zingali and Alberto Montanari

Abstract

Water distribution systems play a fundamental role due to their impact on public health, food, agriculture and energy and consequently, they are identified as critical infrastructures. Integrated urban water management is affected by critical issues that may interfere with the achievement of the best management practice. The work shows a methodology for the identification of interventions priorities in a region where several water distribution systems, with different criticalities, coexist. As metric for critical issues, IWA PIs has been chosen. Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is applied to obtain a sorting of critical issues and thus to define the priorities in the investment planning. The aim is to provide a tool that supports the consistency check between criticalities and interventions planning. The methodology has been applied to 15 management areas within an homogeneous region in the North of Italy.

Keyphrases: aeesgi, investments planning, mcda, performance indicators, water distribution systems

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 329-334.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/G3kB
	https://doi.org/10.29007/pz4k

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Multi_Criteria_Decision_Analysis,
  author    = {Cristiana Bragalli and Federica Giansanti and Lorenzo Zingali and Alberto Montanari},
  title     = {Multi Criteria Decision Analysis to Set the Priority of Interventions in Water Distribution Systems},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/G3kB},
  doi       = {10.29007/pz4k},
  pages     = {329-334},
  year      = {2018}}

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