NISMOD

NISMOD Applications

NISMOD is a fundamental building block for a wide range of applications across government, industry, and academia. Several examples include:

Governments

  • Supports national-scale infrastructure planning and resilience assessment in the UK and internationally.
  • Helps policymakers evaluate future infrastructure pathways under uncertainty.

Industry and Think Tanks

  • Informs infrastructure investment decisions across multiple sectors.
  • Assesses risks and interdependencies between energy, transport, water, and telecommunications systems.

Academia

  • Enables development and evaluation of infrastructure system models.
  • Supports climate change, resilience, and sustainable development research.

Specialist Applications

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Recommended Reading

Explore key publications that demonstrate NISMOD’s use in infrastructure planning, resilience assessment, and climate risk analysis.

Hall, J. W. et al. (2016) ‘National infrastructure assessment: A system-of-systems approach’, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Civil Engineering.

Introduces the NISMOD framework for national infrastructure assessment and the integrated modelling of UK infrastructure systems.

Thacker, S. et al. (2017) ‘Infrastructure interdependencies and climate risk’, Nature Climate Change.

Explores how NISMOD supports understanding of climate-related risks across interconnected infrastructure systems.

Pant, R. et al. (2020) ‘A framework for national infrastructure risk assessment’, Risk Analysis.

Presents a national-scale methodology for assessing risks to infrastructure systems, using the NISMOD model suite.

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