Infrastructure systems are socio-technical systems that are deeply embedded insociety. The task of infrastructure planning and design often has to cope with aconsiderable amount of complexity and uncertainty that arise from the very nature of infrastructure and from changes in social, technological and institutional settings.The various disciplines involved in the planning and management of infrastructure traditionally utilize a ‘reductionist’ approach in which infrastructure istreated as linear object. Thus, a new framework is needed that better reflects thecomplex evolutionary nature of infrastructures.This thesis, with a qualitative method, attempts to use systems approach to study the nature of infrastructure systems and analyze how they interact with other systemsand with each other. The premise is that understanding the complex nature of thesystem is key to effective future planning and management.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kth-121555 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Ejigu, Alazar |
| Publisher | KTH, Urbana och regionala studier |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | SoM EX ; 2007-11 |
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