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US 10,311,170 B2Granted
System for providing infrastructure impacts on an urban area
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsKlaus Heidinger, Pedro Miranda, Katrin Müller, Willfried Wienholt
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Abstract
A system for providing infrastructure impacts on an urban area is provided. Area specific content data of a selected urban area is loaded from a database, and infrastructure impacts on the selected urban area are calculated by a calculation unit depending on the loaded area specific content data and technology parameters of predefined infrastructure levers set by a user.
Claims18
A system for providing infrastructure impacts on an urban area, the system comprising:
- a terminal device comprising a display, wherein the display comprises a graphical user interface having predefined infrastructure levers configured to be set by a user via the graphical user interface;
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- at least one processor configured to:
- load area specific content data of a selected urban area from a database, wherein the area specific content data of the selected urban area comprises a hierarchical area data model of the selected urban area for at least one point in time including interlinked processes of infrastructure elements, and wherein at least some processes of the hierarchical area data model interact with predefined infrastructure levers;
- receive technology parameters and implementation rates when the predefined infrastructure levers are set by the user via the graphical user interface;
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- calculate infrastructure impacts for the selected urban area based on the loaded area specific content data and the technology parameters and implementation rates from the predefined infrastructure levers;
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- wherein the graphical user interface of the terminal device displays the infrastructure impacts for the selected urban area, and
- wherein the system provides for improved decision-making in planning of an infrastructure project in the selected urban area by providing fast comparisons of different infrastructure impacts on the graphical user interface of the terminal device.
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A method for providing infrastructure impacts in an urban area, the method comprising:
- loading, by at least one processor, area specific content data of a selected urban area from a database, wherein the area specific content data of the selected urban area comprises a hierarchical area data model of the selected urban area for at least one point in time including interlinked processes of infrastructure elements, and wherein at least some processes of the hierarchical area data model interact with predefined infrastructure levers;
- receiving, by the at least one processor, technology parameters and implementation rates of predefined infrastructure levers set by a user via a graphical user interface;
- calculating a plurality of different infrastructure impacts for the selected urban area depending on the loaded area specific content data and the technology parameters and implementation rates of the predefined infrastructure levers, wherein the different infrastructure impacts are calculated based on different combinations of infrastructure levers set by the user via the graphical user interface;
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- displaying or storing the calculated infrastructure impacts for the selected urban area via the graphical user interface,
- wherein the method provides for improved decision-making in planning of an infrastructure project in the selected urban area by providing fast comparisons of different infrastructure impacts on the graphical user interface of the terminal device.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising an urban infrastructure planning software tool having instructions executable by a processor to simulate infrastructure impacts on an urban area, the instructions comprising:
- loading area specific content data of a selected urban area from a database;
- receiving technology parameters and implementation rates of a subset of a plurality of predefined infrastructure levers set by a user via a graphical user interface, wherein the plurality of predefined infrastructure levers comprises:
- (1) efficiency levers representing technical improvements of an implemented technology of an infrastructure element, (2) shift levers representing a shift from an infrastructure element implemented in a first technology to an infrastructure element implemented in a second technology, (3) demand levers representing changes in demand for infrastructure elements in the urban area, and (4) levers combining at least two of efficiency improvement, shifting the infrastructure element, and demand reduction;
- calculating infrastructure impacts on a selected urban area based on the loaded area specific content data and the technology parameters and implementation rates of the subset of the plurality of predefined infrastructure levers;
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- displaying or storing the calculated infrastructure impacts on the selected urban area via the graphical user interface,
- wherein the urban infrastructure planning software tool provides for improved decision-making in planning of an infrastructure project in the selected urban area by providing fast comparisons of different infrastructure impacts on the graphical user interface of the terminal device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.