Chapter 13
Modelling in Infrastructure Planning
In building a model, start simple. What are the few most
important facts about price charts – the essential
characteristics that, reduced to mathematical formulae and
lines of software, would be the silicon heart of our computer
simulation?
B. B. Mandelbrot, R. L Hudson
Infrastructure Design is an art in which you create a highly
flexible solution for today, with the best information and
technology available, knowing it will need to evolve
tomorrow into something more.
Mark Achtemichuk
At the heart, infrastructure design is the building of a home
for dynamic and static applications and data to live and
function. Similar to building a home, infrastructure design
helps to provide the foundation, structure, and flow for
applications and data throughout their lifecycle based on
business requirements, constraints, and assumptions (when
lacking data or insight). Like a home, an infrastructure design
should allow for current and future needs in a manner that is
efficient, minimizes risk, and manages initial cost, and cost
over time. And to help meet those goals the overall
infrastructure design should be kept as simple as possible,
while still meeting the requirements of the business.”
Lane Leverett
A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a
similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its
usefulness.
Alfred Korzybski
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
George Box
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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Modelling in Infrastructure Planning
In building a model, start simple. What are the few most
important facts about price charts – the essential
characteristics that, reduced to mathematical formulae and
lines of software, would be the silicon heart of our computer
simulation?
B. B. Mandelbrot, R. L Hudson
Infrastructure Design is an art in which you create a highly
flexible solution for today, with the best information and
technology available, knowing it will need to evolve
tomorrow into something more.
Mark Achtemichuk
At the heart, infrastructure design is the building of a home
for dynamic and static applications and data to live and
function. Similar to building a home, infrastructure design
helps to provide the foundation, structure, and flow for
applications and data throughout their lifecycle based on
business requirements, constraints, and assumptions (when
lacking data or insight). Like a home, an infrastructure design
should allow for current and future needs in a manner that is
efficient, minimizes risk, and manages initial cost, and cost
over time. And to help meet those goals the overall
infrastructure design should be kept as simple as possible,
while still meeting the requirements of the business.”
Lane Leverett
A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a
similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its
usefulness.
Alfred Korzybski
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
George Box
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
V. Proag, Infrastructure Planning and Management: An Integrated Approach,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48559-7_13
353