The IN-SOURCE project from the Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI) will develop a shared urban data and modeling framework to help cities analyze and characterize FWE systems and nexus interrelationships. Shaped by urban stakeholder requirements, this framework will utilize a common urban 3D data model applicable to regions and cities in Europe and the United States.

The IN-SOURCE modeling framework will: (a) simulate impacts of land use, climate change and decentralization of FWE supply infrastructure in cities with different densities and under multiple constraints in order to ensure adequate energy, water and food distribution and storage capacity; (b) configure alternative urban and regional scenarios toward integrated carbon neutral and sustainable infrastructure, based upon decentralized and increasingly autonomous FWE supply; and (c) analyze scalability and transferability of prototype solutions to other cities.

APPROACH

• Using a bottom up approach to model urban system development, combining aggregated results with large scale (mainly regional, up to national) system models 

• Involving urban stakeholders throughout the process, including generating indicators and data, developing tools to model and visualize the impacts and contributing to shaping strategies 

• Considering urban challenges in very different case studies and thus improving the transferability of the local results to global urban areas

EXPECTED RESULTS AND IMPACTS

• CityGML Application Domain Extensions (ADE) will be made available as an open specification, allowing any interested institution to adopt it and develop data resources in a shared data model 

• Stakeholder involved as working consortia for collaborative planning of local FWE infrastructure projects 

• Creation of shared urban data and modeling framework with specialized tools for applications in food, energy, and water interactions 

• Methodology and software tool set will be made available for use by further cities and regions