Introduction

Project Scope and Commitments

Scope:

• Indicate subsurface infrastructure vulnerabilities, disruptions and the impact of failures

• Analyze the reason and cause behind the disruption map

• Highlight areas of interest over a dynamic time period - eg. areas with high incident rates
  
  

Commitments:

• Reorganizing dataset chronologically to create stories, creating a Disruption Occurrence Index, a SWOT Analysis, and a creating MVPs on Tableau (Flagship Deliverable) and ArcGIS (Beta Deliverable).

• Combining various data layers to suggest subsurface infrastructure vulnerabilities due to aging, analyzing resulting surface disturbances and analyzing DOI

What is the Problem?

Problem: NYC is being disrupted

Cause: Aging Infrastructure

Effect: Inconveniences in our daily lives by road excavation and closure

Who is Impacted?

How can we address it?

Utilidors

Utilidors—or multi-purpose utility tunnels—are subsurface infrastructures designed to accommodate all utility transmission infrastructure for water, gas and electric, steam, other telecommunications lines， and possibly, sewage and stormwater, which would provide access to transmissions infrastructure for state-of-good repair activities via secured entrances instead of digging up the street. Then, the continual need for routine street excavations would end, and NYC, as a whole and with DEP, and the private utilities would realize direct cost savings and other benefits.  

Our model highlights vulnerable areas and infrastructure in Queens that experience frequent disruptions and identifies where utilidors would be implemented.