SMART CEO Garry Bowditch was an invited speaker at a 2012 APEC meeting in Kuala Lumpur. Garry's talk was about infrastructure challenges associated with the extraordinary growth of Asian cities. Sometimes the word extraordinary is overused but in this case the urbanisation process is profound because in the next forty years over 75% of humanity will live in mega cities & yet only occupy collectively four percent of the earth's surface.

1. APEC
Infrastructure Development
Working Group
Garry Bowditch
Chief Executive Officer
23 May 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

3. SMART VISION
World class intellectual leader and
educator in 'integrated infrastructure
planning and management’

6. BREAKDOWN THE SILOS

7. INTERDEPENDENCIES AND BEHAVIOUR
Electric Grid
Sewer Lines
Transportation
Network
Communications
Water Lines
Source: Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies Modeling:
A Survey of U.S. and International Research, Idaho National Laboratory

9. REGIONAL FOCUS ON INFRASTRUCTURE
Dr Ken Henry AC
Chairman, SMART Infrastructure Facility
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister
& Author of the White Paper on ‘Australia in the
Asian Century’
Mark Johnson AO
Member, SMART Advisory Council

10. DIVERSITY OF DISCIPLINES AT
SMART INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITY
Behavioural Computer
Chemistry Engineering
Sciences Science
Social Science,
Materials Mathematical Physics Management &
Science Sciences
Governance
Technology
Innovation
Business
Innovation
Social
Innovation
Demand
Innovation

13. Within 40 years
…75% of humanity will live in
cities
…and occupy less than 4% of
the planet’s surface

14. Grand Challenge
Can we actively design & shape our
cities to ensure their future is not only
functional, but also:
• Internationally Competitive
• High standard of Liveability
• Resilient to Change

15. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? WHAT DO WE KNOW?
WHAT MIGHT HELP?
People
Technology •Asia covers 29.4% of the Earth’s land Economic
area and has a population of almost 4
billion, accounting for 56% of the world •Over the period 2010-20, the 32 developing
•Extensive networks made up of
population. member countries of ADB require financing
inexpensive sensors and low cost
of $US747 billion annually to meet growing
analytics.
•It is expected that about 75 percent of demand for infrastructure. 35% of this is
•Smart phones can transform cities & their the world population will be urban by required for transport.
management ( eg. measure of air quality). 2050.
•Asia’s cities are highly productive with 42%
•Social networks can play important role • Half of the world’s 20 megacities are in of the population living in urban areas,
in finding solutions to meet diverse Asia. contributing 80% of the region’s GDP.
population segments (eg crowd sourcing).
•China will experience the largest urban •Emerging infrastructure markets world wide,
•IT allows global firms to operate migration (up to 70% of its population). require 6 trillion in Government and private
anywhere any time. spending over the next 3 years.
Environment
•In China alone, the number of registered vehicles have increased from 1 million in the 1990s to nearly 61
million in 2010.
•In 2006, Asia accounted for 19% of total worldwide transport–sector related CO2 emissions. By 2030, the
share of Asia in total worldwide transport–sector related CO2 emissions will increase to 31%.

16. RESEARCH FOCUS @ SMART
Research is focused on city-wide planning and management of
national infrastructure systems
Solutions
Emerging area: Human interaction with infrastructure
Data
Policy/Business decisions Models
Optimisation
Scenarios
Infrastructure Operations, Performance & Analytics
Infrastructure Assets & Services

17. People Systems
We cannot think about
infrastructure without
considering the people
who use and live with
them

18. Methods of
understanding
interaction between
people and urban
systems
-Knowing who and what is
happening
-Crowd patterns and behavioural
modelling
-Demand prediction- peak
management
-Behavioural change and crowd
sourcing

19. Challenges
Liveable cities
different needs, interactions,
Intrusion, Privacy
Value Propositions
customers, voters
Complexity
simplification through visualisation

20. SUMMARY
SMART research is concerned with
empowering policy makers to “shape” better
cities, not just react to them.
Evidence based planning & decision making
through integrating technology and
knowledge is enabling the management of
cities in ways previously unimaginable.
Time and space in our cities in increasingly
scarce, better planning of city systems is
essential to not only better societies, but
also geo-political stability.

21. Garry Bowditch
CEO
SMART Infrastructure Facility
+612 4298 1241
Garry_bowditch@uow.edu.au