scholarly journals Targeting the Future: Smarter, Cleaner Infrastructure Development Choices

10.5772/50972 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Chen ◽  
Jennifer Warre
Keyword(s):  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
The Future

Connections in the Sky

2013 ◽  
pp. 150-165
Keyword(s):  
Government Regulation ◽  
Data Transfer ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Wireless Technology ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
Wireless Data ◽  
Watershed Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Information is becoming more and more accessible, and the most recent watershed development in this trend is wireless data transfer. This technology has become so mainstream so quickly that it constitutes a “wireless revolution.” It holds significant implications for many industries, of which a few examples are given in this chapter, and for society in general. In the future, much more data will be transmitted wirelessly, but before this can happen on a truly massive and global scale, tremendous infrastructure development will need to take place. Still, various companies are further developing wireless technology, and networks are becoming more widespread even in developing areas of the world. The future of the information industry and the way individual users interact with it will be highly impacted by wireless technology, and the role and extent of government regulation and the issue of privacy will become two pressing questions.

The future of natural gas infrastructure development in the United states

2018 ◽  
Vol 228 ◽  
pp. 149-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Feijoo ◽  
Gokul C. Iyer ◽  
Charalampos Avraam ◽  
Sauleh A. Siddiqui ◽  
Leon E. Clarke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals A Scenario Planning of the Sharing Economy in Bali Accommodation 2030

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Arya Galih Anindita
Keyword(s):  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Scenario Planning ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Future ◽  
Accommodation Sector ◽  
Four Quadrant ◽  
Tourist Accommodation

<p>Defined as the economic system that allows ordinary people to share their underused/underutilized residences as tourist accommodation, the sharing economy in the accommodation sector may emerge into one of the most important trends to change the overall landscape of tourism. Given that the sharing economy is still in its infancy in a world full of contingencies, the future of the sharing economy in accommodation remains uncertain, and Bali, Indonesia provides no exception. In response, this study aims to take a ‘sneak peek into the future’ exploring the potential evolution of the sharing economy in Bali’s accommodation through a comprehensive future study.  Utilizing Delphi-based scenario planning, a group of participating experts have been interviewed and their answers to multiple questionnaires analyzed. Through the two most important drivers to be identified, infrastructure development and ubiquitous Internet, a four-quadrant scenario matrix has been developed. Each of the scenarios is presented in a storyline by integrating the drivers of change, future thinking, and creative imagination to portray four alternative illustrations of the sharing economy in Bali’s accommodation sector in 2030. The "from local to global" scenario emphasizes the vision of Bali’s modernization whereby smart houses and a local sharing economy in accommodation are pervasive, and incumbent hotels decide to compete with such new rivals. The "joint first prize" scenario portrays the partnership between hotels and traditional villages, sophisticated features of the sharing economy in accommodation platforms, and the use of an integrative rating system to classify the shared houses. The "volte-face" scenario highlights a gloomy situation with no existence of a sharing economy in accommodation. Lastly, the "what’s yours is mine" scenario envisages exclusive purpose-built second homes clustered in an area only accessible for high- income bracket visitors. Through an examination of strategic implications, the study explores potential risk and the consequences of each scenario coupled with key strategies to guide the relevant stakeholders with a range of possible approaches for resolution.  This study offers piece of document that contributes to the overall academic literature as this study expands the outcome of available researches focused in this topic, and also overlooks potential policy instruments to be undertaken by key stakeholders.</p>

Teaching Heritage Business and Marketing

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra L. López Varela
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Cultural Resources Management ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The Future ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
Opening Up

AbstractThis article discusses the effectiveness of Mexico’s national heritage business model within a context of economic growth, infrastructure development, and structural shifts that pose risks to the preservation of heritage resources. To meet these challenges, the future heritage professional requires a training profile that most archaeology departments in Mexico are unable to accommodate. Recognizing the importance of cultural resources management (CRM) and heritage business and marketing skills, the BA program in Development and Intercultural Management, offered at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, is exploring new ways to create business models to finance heritage preservation. In an emergent economy, many students lack the opportunity to pursue higher education degrees, joining the labor market at a very early stage in their careers, without much knowledge of how to make heritage a lever for economic growth. Thus, a goal of this article is to encourage the early teaching of business and marketing in programs around the world by demonstrating how such training opportunities are opening up unimaginable career avenues for the future heritage professional in Mexico.

scholarly journals Problems and Perspectives of Tourism Infrastructure Development in the Kyrgyz Republic

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anara Kamalova
Keyword(s):  
Business Development ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
Ski Resorts ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Current State ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
The Future ◽  
Beach Tourism

Tourism business development perspectives mostly depend on the level of infrastructure. Tourism infrastructure includes a group of industries which provides passive tourism balance. It has its own resources: natural, recreational, production assets - service enterprises, personnel, relations with other sectors of economy, providing accommodation, feeding, recreation, information and transport services for tourists. Tourism infrastructure contributes to the adequate functioning of tourist’s leisure. Despite all efforts to develop tourism in Kyrgyzstan, good results of its development are not yet observed, the share of tourism in GDP still remains very low. Tourism infrastructure is developing very poorly. Today, tourism rests solely on natural beauty, only beach tourism remains developed, in recent years, recreation at ski resorts has become more or less popular. Taking into account all the above, in this article we will try to assess the current state of development of the republic’s tourism infrastructure, identify the main problems inhibiting the development of quality tourist services and identify the main directions for the development of tourism infrastructure in the future. Creating a quality level of tourism infrastructure, in our opinion, is one of the factors for increasing the share of tourism in the GDP of the Kyrgyz Republic.

scholarly journals Development of Frontage Road in the Municipality of Surabaya: An Innovation In the Implementation of Public Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sapto Pramono ◽  
Agus Suryono ◽  
Bambang Santoso Haryono ◽  
Sarwono Sarwono
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
The Road ◽  
Toll Road ◽  
The Future ◽  
East And West ◽  
The City

This paper aims to explore qualitatively the concept of implementing public policy in infrastructure development in the Municipality of Surabaya. That the number of roads in Surabaya is not balanced with the increase in the number of vehicles. For this reason, the central government proposed the construction of a mid-city toll road, but the Surabaya Municipality Government refused because the construction of the city toll road was considered unable to solve the Surabaya traffic problem, namely congestion. So that the Surabaya Municipality Government still wants to build infrastructure, namely the frontage road, on the east and west of Ahmad Yani frontage road. The construction of the frontage road, it has reduced traffic congestion on Ahmad Yani frontage road, especially around Wonokromo and East Java Province Logistics Agency. The construction of Ahmad Yani frontage road is also a form of innovation in the implementation of public policy because so far the regional government has always followed what was suggested by the central government. In the next development, Surabaya Municipality not only built a frontage road, it was only limited to road Ahmad Yani, because in the future it was expected to connect to the road in the Sidoarjo Regency.

scholarly journals The City of the Future. A new paradigm, a new vocabulary

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Vlaswinkel ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Design Tools ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Length Of Residence ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

To design the city of the future, we have to stop extrapolating the problems of today. This is why team Stadsvrijheid developed a new conceptual framework, a new paradigm for the future. On the basis of this paradigm, the team argues back to the here and now. This approach requires different ordering principles and new design tools, in short: the development of a completely new vocabulary. Current ordering principles such as density and functions will no longer be applicable in the future, which will centre on length of residence, production potential and the intricacy of the urban fabric. Combinations of these factors determine the DNA of an area. The team’s conceptual framework for the future sketches a new world in which everything is connected to everything; people as well as things. Technology plays an important role in this. In the resulting circular economy, everything is productive. The test site for this new paradigm was Utrecht’s eastern fringe. This promising location allows the interweaving of landscape and city in the context of today’s urbanization pressure. It is precisely in the monofunctional and fragmented urban fringes that a new type of urban character can emerge by connecting new developments in the field of mobility and technology. Anyone who wants the city to be liveable and healthy has to move towards a city in which walking is the norm and therefore away from ‘radial thinking’ of the traditional city. The outskirts of Utrecht will become gateways to the city or even the Randstad, with the Sciencepark as the global attractor and the Lunetten hub as the global connector. The team translated the contours of the conceptual framework into ordering principles and balanced these using a ‘mixing console’. Important principles are: the intricacy of the urban fabric (everything is connected), travel time (everything is proximate), length of residence (everything takes its own time) and varied production (everything is productive). The mixing console allows an alternative method of organizing areas according to functions or density. A specific mix determines the DNA of a region. The team devised new design tools to create the city of the future. The 'armature’, for example, is a tool that can be used to redefine the current road infrastructure. Development along the Z axis, for example, is based on the principles of urban stratigraphy and builds on the strata of the existing city. This allows densification and the current physical barriers such as the motorways will transform into layered landscapes that will act as hubs connecting future centres. In 2040, city dwellers travel by foot and motorized transport between cities will be connected collectively or individually. The resulting city is a continuous city for pedestrians that not only allows more density, but in which there is more room for greenery as well. Functions such as roads and housing are layered, stackable, connectable entities linked to new energy and transport networks. They create a productive and endlessly connected urban landscape. In this layered city everything, including waste, produces something. Everything is designed to last a certain period of time, for example based on length of residence. In this city, the cost of space is the driving force behind change. This comes with new investment models in which the relationship between interest and involvement play a part.

scholarly journals INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT OF RAWASERING HIGHWAY TANJUNG MORAWA – SERIBUDOLOK – TONGGING STRATEGICALLY WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM IN NORTH SUMATERA

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seminar Nasional Multidisiplin Ilmu 2017
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

There are three objects of this study. First to describe by the infrastructure development of Rawasering Highway as an alternative way can give the advantage, worthy, and easily access to Karo Land. Rawasering means Tanjung Morawa- Seribu Dolok- Tongging. This infrastructure development involves in three Districts; they are Deli Serdang District, Simalungun District, and Karo Land District.Second, to strengthen the tourism industry to the world by promotting the tourist objects which are in North Sumatera. Third, to increase the society’s prosperous especially for Economic, Social, and Culture. This research method used in descriptive qualitative method. The data was taken from the internet, informan, government, tourism practitioners, text books, and newspaper.The data analysis is based on the tourism theory.The result of study are: by the infrastructure development of Rawasering Highway as as an alternative way will get the advantage, worthy, and easiness for the Rewasering Highway’s user, increasing of tourism industry by promotting the tourist objects which are in some interesting places because many tourists will visit and it automatically will increase the foreign exchange/ income for our country in the future, and increasing of the society’s prosperous especially for Economic, Social, and Culture.

scholarly journals A Scenario Planning of the Sharing Economy in Bali Accommodation 2030

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Arya Galih Anindita
Keyword(s):  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Scenario Planning ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Future ◽  
Accommodation Sector ◽  
Four Quadrant ◽  
Tourist Accommodation

<p>Defined as the economic system that allows ordinary people to share their underused/underutilized residences as tourist accommodation, the sharing economy in the accommodation sector may emerge into one of the most important trends to change the overall landscape of tourism. Given that the sharing economy is still in its infancy in a world full of contingencies, the future of the sharing economy in accommodation remains uncertain, and Bali, Indonesia provides no exception. In response, this study aims to take a ‘sneak peek into the future’ exploring the potential evolution of the sharing economy in Bali’s accommodation through a comprehensive future study.  Utilizing Delphi-based scenario planning, a group of participating experts have been interviewed and their answers to multiple questionnaires analyzed. Through the two most important drivers to be identified, infrastructure development and ubiquitous Internet, a four-quadrant scenario matrix has been developed. Each of the scenarios is presented in a storyline by integrating the drivers of change, future thinking, and creative imagination to portray four alternative illustrations of the sharing economy in Bali’s accommodation sector in 2030. The "from local to global" scenario emphasizes the vision of Bali’s modernization whereby smart houses and a local sharing economy in accommodation are pervasive, and incumbent hotels decide to compete with such new rivals. The "joint first prize" scenario portrays the partnership between hotels and traditional villages, sophisticated features of the sharing economy in accommodation platforms, and the use of an integrative rating system to classify the shared houses. The "volte-face" scenario highlights a gloomy situation with no existence of a sharing economy in accommodation. Lastly, the "what’s yours is mine" scenario envisages exclusive purpose-built second homes clustered in an area only accessible for high- income bracket visitors. Through an examination of strategic implications, the study explores potential risk and the consequences of each scenario coupled with key strategies to guide the relevant stakeholders with a range of possible approaches for resolution.  This study offers piece of document that contributes to the overall academic literature as this study expands the outcome of available researches focused in this topic, and also overlooks potential policy instruments to be undertaken by key stakeholders.</p>

scholarly journals Case Study of Public-Private Partnership on Infrastruc-ture Projects of Tibar Bay Port in Timor-Leste

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Zeferino Soares Lopes ◽  
Fredy Kurniawan ◽  
Julistyana Tistogondo
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
National Development ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government ◽  
To Come

Public - Private Partnership (PPP) offers many potential benefits for the government in providing infrastructure facilities. However, the implementation of the Public Private Partnership project is not easy. Infrastructure Development is one of the development priorities in developed and developing countries, including Timor-Leste. As one of the priorities of national development, cost limitations are the main problem faced by the government. Therefore, to overcome the lack of funding, the government can involve the private sector in terms of providing funds to finance the construction of infrastructure facilities.The Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (RDTL) must have good regulations to achieve the goals of Timor-Leste in the future through cooperation between the government and the private sector. Good regulation is one of the best ways for good cooperation between the government and the private sector.In this study, the chosen location is the Tibar Bay Port in Timor-Leste. Based on the results of research that has been done, infrastructure development efforts do not have to rely on the Timor-Leste government as a single actor, the involvement of other parties such as the private sector is also needed for infrastructure development. The Government of Timor-Leste is fulfilling a big dream for the the future through the development of infrastructure in accordance with the strategic development plan for 2011-2030 to come, because the Government of Timor-Leste prepares a bright future for a country to become a developed country like other countries.

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