The City Performance Tool-How Cities
Use LCM Based Decision Support
Jens-Christian Holst, Katrin Müller, Florian-Ansgar Jäger
and Klaus Heidinger
Abstract This paper presents the City Performance Tool (CyPT) approach, a
LCA-based methodology for sustainable infrastructure decision support. The work
presents an outside-in view about the methodology, details about the underlying
LCA models and its implementation into a tool. The results for three different cities
will be presented and a general conclusion for the use of LCM-based decision
support from a business perspective will be given.
1 Introduction
All over the world, cities are shaped by profound forces: their population, their
technologies and their infrastructures. Even today, these forces collide and urbanization and climate change will spur dramatic changes in metropolitan areas. Cities
need to pave the way for constant evolution: digital technologies are becoming
increasingly important and urban infrastructures and buildings require a more
efficient and sustainable setup.
These changing environments set free a swarm of urban challenges. Developed
cities for instance need to focus on cutting carbon emissions, improving efficiency
in infrastructure and buildings, stimulating a market shift towards cleaner vehicles
and more efficient and environmentally friendly public transportation. At the same
time, infrastructure quality in many advanced economies is deteriorating. Looking
forward to 2030, more than $50 trillion will need to be invested in infrastructure
globally to keep up with GDP and population growth [1].
Cities in emerging markets on the other hand face issues such as power outages
and inadequate public transport and roads, which brake on growth and development. Infrastructures cannot be built fast enough to keep pace with economic and
J.-C. Holst (&) Á K. Müller Á F.-A. Jäger
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, 13629 Berlin, Germany
e-mail: jens-christian.holst@siemens.com
K. Heidinger
Siemens AG Austria, Siemensstrasse 90, 1210 Vienna, Austria
© The Author(s) 2018
E. Benetto et al. (eds.), Designing Sustainable Technologies,
Products and Policies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66981-6_51
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Use LCM Based Decision Support
Jens-Christian Holst, Katrin Müller, Florian-Ansgar Jäger
and Klaus Heidinger
Abstract This paper presents the City Performance Tool (CyPT) approach, a
LCA-based methodology for sustainable infrastructure decision support. The work
presents an outside-in view about the methodology, details about the underlying
LCA models and its implementation into a tool. The results for three different cities
will be presented and a general conclusion for the use of LCM-based decision
support from a business perspective will be given.
1 Introduction
All over the world, cities are shaped by profound forces: their population, their
technologies and their infrastructures. Even today, these forces collide and urbanization and climate change will spur dramatic changes in metropolitan areas. Cities
need to pave the way for constant evolution: digital technologies are becoming
increasingly important and urban infrastructures and buildings require a more
efficient and sustainable setup.
These changing environments set free a swarm of urban challenges. Developed
cities for instance need to focus on cutting carbon emissions, improving efficiency
in infrastructure and buildings, stimulating a market shift towards cleaner vehicles
and more efficient and environmentally friendly public transportation. At the same
time, infrastructure quality in many advanced economies is deteriorating. Looking
forward to 2030, more than $50 trillion will need to be invested in infrastructure
globally to keep up with GDP and population growth [1].
Cities in emerging markets on the other hand face issues such as power outages
and inadequate public transport and roads, which brake on growth and development. Infrastructures cannot be built fast enough to keep pace with economic and
J.-C. Holst (&) Á K. Müller Á F.-A. Jäger
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, 13629 Berlin, Germany
e-mail: jens-christian.holst@siemens.com
K. Heidinger
Siemens AG Austria, Siemensstrasse 90, 1210 Vienna, Austria
© The Author(s) 2018
E. Benetto et al. (eds.), Designing Sustainable Technologies,
Products and Policies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66981-6_51
457