Systematic analysis of the potential benefits of enhanced intelligent infrastructure features on current information sharing barriers among operators during emergencies

Functioning of today’s societies is relying on a sustainable, efficient, safe, and reliable operation of infrastructure systems that are critical for the economy and the society. Considering this fact, negative side effects of any problem or delay in data collection, access, usage, and propagation do not abide by the quality of decision- making but should also influence the quality of disaster response. To maximize the potential advantages of infrastructure investment, and minimize its social and environmental costs in the future, intelligent systems are adapted to the current critical infrastructures. Precisely, our goal is to obtain a sustainable, productive, and cost effective infrastructure. On the other hand, Two factors play a main role in all phases of emergency management: Information sharing and collaboration, which enables simplified and efficient prevention of, response to and recovery from all hazards. While access to core information enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of responses as well as coordination throughout the network of responding organizations, insufficient information sharing and collaboration leads to significant drawbacks. This Thesis is outlined as follows. In Introduction, we give a description of modern critical infrastructures and innovative approaches to control these infrastructures. Section 1 introduces the features of infrastructure when we make it an intelligent one. Effect of information sharing to control the infrastructure, its important role in emergency situation and barriers of information sharing are presented in Section 2. In Section 3, we propose the effect of Intelligence to information sharing barriers. Section 4 provides evaluation of our study and directions for future research.