TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Nübel, Konrad
A1  - Bühler, Michael Max
A1  - Jelinek, Thorsten
T1  - Federated Digital Platforms: Value Chain Integration for Sustainable Infrastructure Planning and Delivery
JF  - Sustainability
N2  - Twenty-first century infrastructure needs to respond to changing demographics, becoming climate neutral, resilient, and economically affordable, while remaining a driver for development and shared prosperity. However, the infrastructure sector remains one of the least innovative and digitalized, plagued by delays, cost overruns, and benefit shortfalls. The authors assessed trends and barriers in the planning and delivery of infrastructure based on secondary research, qualitative
interviews with internationally leading experts, and expert workshops. The analysis concludes that the root-cause of the industry’s problems is the prevailing fragmentation of the infrastructure value chain and a lacking long-term vision for infrastructure. To help overcome these challenges, an integration of the value chain is needed. The authors propose that this could be achieved through a use-case-based, as well as vision and governance-driven creation of federated digital platforms applied to infrastructure projects and outline a concept. Digital platforms enable full-lifecycle participation and responsible governance guided by a shared infrastructure vision. This paper has contributed as policy recommendation to the Group of Twenty (G20) in 2021.
KW  - Sustainable infrastructure
KW  - Federated digital platform
KW  - Governance
KW  - Design
KW  - Protocols
KW  - Implementation
KW  - Value chain
KW  - Digatalization
Y1  - 2021
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:kon4-opus4-28721
SN  - 2071-1050
SS  - 2071-1050
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168996
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168996
N1  - Corresponding Author: Konrad Nübel
VL  - 13
IS  - 16
SP  - 17
S1  - 17
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -