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Book SynopsisProviding a coherent and multidisciplinary approach to digitalization, this
Modern Guide aims to systematize how the digitalization process affects infrastructure-based industries, including telecommunications, transport, energy, water and postal services.
This important book reviews the literature on how digital technologies can impact infrastructure design, construction and maintenance costs, with specific references for each industry. Contributors analyse how digitalization is disrupting traditional infrastructure managers in terms of capacity management and traffic flows as well as discussing key topics including data governance, data sharing, digital platforms and sector convergence.
With special attention devoted to regulatory and governance challenges, this will be welcomed by researchers of network industries and digitalization. This will also be of special interest to academics and scholars interested in the digitalization process, data governance and infrastructure management.
Trade Review‘Infrastructures are not digital born, but should become digital. The complexity and intertwinement between elements hinders easy progress. This book is a must-read fore leaders in which the challenges are framed and insight is given into how to move forward.‘ -- Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Digitalizing infrastructure: active management for smarter networks 1 Juan Montero and Matthias Finger 2 Digitalization technologies: the evolution of smart networks 43 Günter Knieps 3 Digitalizing telecommunications: innovation, complexity and diversity in the internet ecosystem 59 Volker Stocker and Günter Knieps 4 Digitalization in road projects: toward a more integrated mobility supply 92 Carlos Oliveira Cruz and Joaquim Miranda Sarmento 5 Digitalizing maritime transport: digital innovation as a catalyzer of sustainable transformation 123 Anastasia Tsvetkova, Magnus Gustafsson and Kim Wikström 6 Digitalizing railways: the platform dilemma 149 Juan Montero 7 Digitalizing aviation infrastructure: the role of technology in overcoming fragmentation 172 Iván László Arnold and Lorenzo Casullo 8 Digitalization in the postal and delivery sector: between electronic substitution of letter mail and thriving e-commerce 198 Christian Jaag 9 Digitalization of the electricity infrastructure: a key enabler for the decarbonization and decentralization of the power sector 217 Nicolò Rossetto and Valerie Reif 10 Digitalization in the drinking water sector: towards smart water supply management 266 Brenda Espinosa Apráez 11 Digitalization, efficiency and convergence 289 Matthias Finger and Juan Montero Index
