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  Flexible infrastructures

  Our society will demand more functionality, capacity and quality of infrastructures than they can deliver right now. Our objective is to ensure long-term flexibility for the next generation of infrastructures, while maintaining their stability and reliability.

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  Intelligent infrastructures

  The operation and control of existing infrastructures is failing: too often we are confronted with capacity problems and a lack of safety, reliability and efficiency. Our aim is to develop advanced methods and tools for the operation and control of existing infrastructures. We look at a wide range of problems with infrastructures.

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  Public values

  In the wake of the changes in the infrastructure sectors, the conventional governance models to safeguard the public values we associate with infrastructures have become obsolete. We assess and redefine public and private values in the light of European liberalization and we develop new governance models for safeguarding these values.

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  Reliable infrastructures

  Vital infrastructures are subject to risks that we are not able to prevent or respond to adequately. The objective of this program is to develop design approaches, technological innovations and new interorganizational arrangements to be better prepared for failures and their damaging effects.

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  Serious gaming

  Since the initiation of the Next Generation Infrastructures programme in 2004, the developments in serious gaming have been staggering. An increasing number of NG Infrastructures partners have come to realise that serious gaming has much to offer for the understanding of infrastructures as well as for their design, management, decision-making and training.

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  Strategic asset management

  NGInfra has taken a succesful initiative to launch and support a platform for infrastructure asset managers, because we identified a need in practice for:
  1. learning from each other about good asset management
  2. masterclasses, courses and training in infrastructure asset management
  3. tools to support the asset management process

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  Understanding complex networks

  It is hard to know which strings to pull when all strings are entwined. Infrastructures have become so complicated that they show unpredicted and unwanted behavior. Our objective is to obtain a fundamental understanding of the complexity of the next generation of infrastructures.

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