5 The City Performance Tool—How Cities Use LCM
Based Decision Support [4]
Modern cities have an increasingly vital role to play in finding new ways to protect
the environment. Understanding the environmental and economic impact of
infrastructure choice is crucial for urban decision makers especially as linked to
long term strategies and investment have to be taken. Siemens deep technology
expertise can support this understanding however technology performance indicators have to be transformed to the solution embedded into a city specific context and
in combination with other infrastructure choices across city domains.
Understanding these cities requirements and perspective of the decision makers
Siemens developed the City Performance Tool to explore the environmental and
economic impact of more than 70 technologies from Building, Transport and
Energy Technologies—at different time periods and implementation rates.
It is designed to reduce the environmental impacts of everyday activities in
cities. It covers greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and transport, as well as
air pollutants such as particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NO x ). It also
looks at the creation of new local jobs to install, operate and maintain city solutions.
The common model determines the variety of activities in process blocks to
build any city in a common LCA tool (SimaPro):
• 20 + electricity and heat generation
• 10 + building types its electricity, heat and cooling demand
• 10 freight modes; 35 passenger transport modes; 15 road and rail infrastructure
elements
The CyPT provides environmental results relative to the amount invested. It
enables city managers to prioritise projects based upon their likely environmental
and economic impacts. It can offer city managers a roadmap towards meeting
carbon emission targets, clean air standards and local job growth. The work presents the methodology, details about the underlying LCA models and its implementation into the tool. In transport, for example, CyPT assesses how a technology
would reduce demand (reduce parking search traffic), shift the mode (public
transport instead of cars) or improve efficiency (automated trains). The model is
based on LCA methodology and builds upon Siemens’ technology expertise and
global databases of deep vertical process knowledge.
Now urban decision makers can use the City Performance Tool (CyPT) by
Siemens to select urban infrastructure technologies that offer their own cities
maximum environmental and economic benefits. The CyPT studies are performed
in more than 25 cities worldwide and experiences gained will be shared in this
presentation.
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Based Decision Support [4]
Modern cities have an increasingly vital role to play in finding new ways to protect
the environment. Understanding the environmental and economic impact of
infrastructure choice is crucial for urban decision makers especially as linked to
long term strategies and investment have to be taken. Siemens deep technology
expertise can support this understanding however technology performance indicators have to be transformed to the solution embedded into a city specific context and
in combination with other infrastructure choices across city domains.
Understanding these cities requirements and perspective of the decision makers
Siemens developed the City Performance Tool to explore the environmental and
economic impact of more than 70 technologies from Building, Transport and
Energy Technologies—at different time periods and implementation rates.
It is designed to reduce the environmental impacts of everyday activities in
cities. It covers greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and transport, as well as
air pollutants such as particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NO x ). It also
looks at the creation of new local jobs to install, operate and maintain city solutions.
The common model determines the variety of activities in process blocks to
build any city in a common LCA tool (SimaPro):
• 20 + electricity and heat generation
• 10 + building types its electricity, heat and cooling demand
• 10 freight modes; 35 passenger transport modes; 15 road and rail infrastructure
elements
The CyPT provides environmental results relative to the amount invested. It
enables city managers to prioritise projects based upon their likely environmental
and economic impacts. It can offer city managers a roadmap towards meeting
carbon emission targets, clean air standards and local job growth. The work presents the methodology, details about the underlying LCA models and its implementation into the tool. In transport, for example, CyPT assesses how a technology
would reduce demand (reduce parking search traffic), shift the mode (public
transport instead of cars) or improve efficiency (automated trains). The model is
based on LCA methodology and builds upon Siemens’ technology expertise and
global databases of deep vertical process knowledge.
Now urban decision makers can use the City Performance Tool (CyPT) by
Siemens to select urban infrastructure technologies that offer their own cities
maximum environmental and economic benefits. The CyPT studies are performed
in more than 25 cities worldwide and experiences gained will be shared in this
presentation.
Turning the Lens Around: LCA Success Stories Outside-In
443