DAFNI Publications

Acknowledging DAFNI

A full list of our publications is below.

We ask that DAFNI be acknowledged in all research outputs, such as talks, publications, software repositories, theses, and databases, which were made possible through collaboration with or the support of DAFNI.

Please refer to our Publications Policy for further details.

2026

Stress-testing road network resilience using counterfactual flood events (1953-2024) in Great Britain, Y. Li, R. Pant, T. Russell, F. Thomas, J.W. Hall, P. Oldham, R. Lamb and P.J. Young, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 155, 105292. DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2026.105292.

A benchmarking framework to enhance cost-efficiency in water systems resilience planning under deep uncertainty, L. Liu, F. Pianosi and A. Mijic, Journal of Cleaner Production, 548, 147850 (Elsevier). DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2026.147850

Revealing higher-order interactions through multimodal irreversibility in flood-affected transportation networks, X. Lin, L. Chen, q. Lu, P. Zhao and T. Cheng, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 226, 111726 (Springer). DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2025.111726

2025

Weather-informed optimal scheduling of electric vehicle charging under extreme conditions: A case study from the Scottish islands, W. Qin, P. McCallum, L. Souto and D. Kirli, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 172, 111329. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2025.111329.

Performance-based resilience assessment in integrated water systems: challenges and opportunities, L. Liu and A. Mijic, Journal of Hydrology, 662, 134042 (Elsevier). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134042

The value of sensitivity analysis for the evaluation and use of water resource models under deep uncertainty, F. Pianosi, S. Salwey, G. Coxon, D. Wendt and A. Murgatroyd, Abstract published in EGU General Assembly 2025. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-13694 (European Geosciences Union).

Reflections on delivering place-based climate risk data in support of local adaptation decisions, A.J.P. Smith, A. Minns, R.J. Nicholls and A, Beswick, Climate Risk Management, 48, 100701 (Elsevier). DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2025.100701

Flood Evacuation in Informal Settlements: Application of an Agent-Based Model to Kibera Using Open Data, Urban Science, 9(1), 12 (MDPI). DOI: 10.3390/urbansci9010012

An open framework for analysing future flood risk in urban areas, O. Butters, C. Robson, F. McClean, V. Glenis, J. Virgo, A. Ford, C. Iliadis and R. Dawson, Environmental Modelling & Software, 185, 106302 (Elsevier). DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.106302

Forecasting Railway Network Resilience under Propagating Uncertainty, Q, Fu, J-E Byun, S. Ivings, G. Punzo, T. Erfani, I. Yevseyeva, K. Nikolopoulos and J. Easton, Abstract presented at the 11th International  Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis, Dresden, Germany, 1-4 April 2025.

Data Infrastructure for National Infrastructure. A UK Research Data Cloud Pilot: Final Report, B.M. Matthews, K. Cartmell, C.M. Jones and E. Newbold, Technical Report STFC-TR-2025-004.

Multi-objective algorithms to improve urban flood resilience, C. Iliadis, J. Mckenna and V. Glenis, Conference Paper for EWRA 2025, Palermo, Italy.

Cold chain for sustainable infrastructure planning, P. Aditjandra, I. Hussain, D. Utomo, A. Gripton and P. Greening, Transportation Research Procedia, 82, 481-494 (Elsevier). DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2024.12.056.

Symbolic Dynamics Coarse-Graining Approach for Analysing Traffic Flow Dynamics in Complex Road Networks Under Flooding, X. Lin, Q. Liu, N. Chen, T. Broyd and M. Pitt, Abstract published in Proceedings of 2024 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Pittsburgh, USA, 28-31 July 2024, (ASCE). DOI: 10.1061/9780784486122.016

2024

Enhancing Urban Flood Response: Traffic Flow Prediction with Field Theory-Inspired Physics-Informed Graph Neural Network, X. Lin, Q Lu,  T. Broyd, T. Cheng, X. Zhang, T. Erfani and T.H. Tran. Poster presented at the 3rd International Conference Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Assessing dynamic congestion risks of flood-disrupted transportation network systems through time-variant topological analysis and traffic demand dynamics, X. Lin, Q. Lu, L. Chen and I. Brilakis, Advanced Engineering Informatics, 62, Part A, 102672 (Elsevier). DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2024.102672

Towards adaptive resilience for the future of integrated water systems planning, A. Mijic, B. Dobson and L. Liu, Cambridge Prims: Water, 2: e11 (Cambridge University Press). DOI: 10.1017/wat.2024.9.

UK-US Workshop on Transformation in Urban Underground Infrastructure, E. Miller-Hooks and J. Leach, Final Report. DOI: 10.14324/000.rp.10190562

Sustainability nexus AD: infrastructure resilience, T. Erfani, M.M. Naeini, E. Borgomeo, M. Anvari, A. Hurford, R. Erfani, A. Zarei, M.A. Martin and K. Madani, Sustainability Nexus Forum, 32, 14 (Springer). DOI: 10.1007/s00550-024-00551-z.

Digital Innovations for City Sustainability Analysis and Decision-Making, P. Newton C. Pettit, S. Barr and Lorens Bruns Jr, Book chapter published in Frantzeskaki, N., Moglia, M., Newton, P., Prasad, D., Pineda Pinto, M. (eds) Future Cities Making. Theory and Practice of Urban Sustainability Transitions, (Springer). DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-7671-9_10.

A review of recent research on visual inspection processes for bridges and the potential uses of AI, P.J. Vardanega, T. Tryfonas, G. Gavriel, D.T. Nepomuceno, M. Pregnolato and J. Bennetts, Book chapter published in Jensen, J.S., Frangopol, D.M. and Schmidt, J.W., Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Digitalization and Sustainability, (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press). DOI: 10.1201/9781003483755.

2023

DAFNI: a computational platform to support infrastructure systems research, B. Matthews, J. Hall, M. Batty, S. Blainey, N.Cassidy, R. Choudhary, D. Coca, S. Hallett, J.J. Harou, P. James, N. Lomax, P. Oliver, A. Sivakumar, T. Tryfonas and L. Varga, Smart Infrastructure and Construction, 176, 3, (Emerald), 10.1680/jsmic.22.00007.

OpenCLIM: A national scale framework for evaluating the effects of climate change for socio-economic scenarios and adaptation policies, O. Butters, C. Robson and B. Smith, Abstract published in EGU General Assembly 2023. DOI:
10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14835.

Supporting Infrastructure Research Communities on DAFNI, B. Matthews, B. Perkins and K. Stevenson, Session presented at the PV 2023 Conference, 2-4 May 2023, CERN.

ESRC Smart Data Research UK Strategic Advice Team: Report 1: SAT Activities Data Services & Thematic Research Pillars, R. Franklin, S. Yayes, E. Musi, O. Guerrero, S. Spielman, J. D’Arcy and J. Crosby, Report (University of Liverpool).

Annual Report 2022: Transportation Research Group, T. Cherrett, Report (University of Southampton).

2022

A framework for national risk and adaptation assessments across multiple sectors, R.J. Nicholls, R.J. Dawson, R. Warren, B. Matthews, A. Ford, C. Robson, J. Price and A. Minns, Paper presented at the AGU Fall Meeting 2022, 12-16 December 2022, Chicago, USA, id. U16B-02.

Generalised network architectures for environmental sensing: Case studies for a digitally enabled environment, M.I. Mead, M. Bevilacqua, C. Loiseaux, S.H. Hallett, S. Jude, C. Emmanouilidis, J. Harris, P. Leinster, S. Mutnuri, T.H. Tran and L. Williams, Array, 14, 100168 (Elsevier). DOI: 10.1016/j.array.2022.100168.

Briefing: Plexus: Primary Laboratory Experiments on Infrastructure ad Urban Systems, C.D.F. Rogers, E. Ing, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Smart Infrastructure and Construction, 175 (1) (Emerald). DOI: 10.1680/jsmic.21.00017.

Building a cross-sector digital twin, J. Akroyd, Centre for Digital Built Britain, (Cambridge University). DOI: 10.17863/CAM.81779.

CReDo: Overview report, S. Hayes, C. Dent, B. Mawdsley, R. Judson and T. Collingwood, Centre for Digital Built Britain, (Cambridge University). DOI: 10.17863/CAM.82908.

2021

A mixed-methods investigation into barriers for sharing geospatial and resilience flood data in the UK, L. Waterman, M.R. Cassado, E. Bergin and G. McInally, Water, 13 (9), 1235 (MDPI). DOI: 10.3390/w13091235

A transferable method for estimating the economic impacts of track interventions: Application to ground-borne noise reduction measures for whole sections of route, M. Young, G. Rempelos and J. Preston, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 235 (6), (Sage). DOI: 10.1177/0954409720953730.

Industry Briefing: Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence at the Intersection Between Digital Infrastructure and Critical National Infrastructure, M. Racovita, Abstract presented at the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity, London, UK (UCL Discovery). DOI: 10.14324/000.rp.101904.

Multi-scale modelling of integrated energy supply systems, L. Jayasuriya. PhD Thesis (Cardiff University).

2020

Developing a Generalised Assessment Framework for Railway Interventions, J. Armstrong, G. Rempelos, J. Wei, J. Preston, S. Blainey, J. Easton and C. Roberts, Book chapter in Computers in Railways XV11, (WIT Press). DOI: 10.2495/CR200121.

Smart Infrastructure: A Vision for the Role of the Civil Engineering Profession in Smart Cities, E.Z. Berglund, J.G. Monroe, I. Ahmed, M. Noghabaei, J. Do, J.E. Pesantez, M.A.K. Fasaee, E. Bardaka, K. Han, G.T. Proestos and J. Levi, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 26 (2), (ASCE). DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000549.

2019

UK reveals new platform for infrastructure data analysis and simulation modelling, J. Hall, Brief Report, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Civil Engineering, 172 (3): 102 (Emerald). DOI: 10.1680/jcien.2019.172.3.102.

An automated online tool to forecast demand for new railway stations and analyse potential abstraction effects, M. Young, S. Blainey, T. Gowland and S. Nagella. Abstract presented at The 17th Annual Transport Practitioners’ Meeting, The Examination Schools, Oxford, UK, 10-11 July 2019.

Analysing Systems Interdependencies Using a Digital Twin, J. Whyte, D. Coca, J. Fitzgerald, M. Mayfield, K. Pierce, N. Shah, L. Chen. C. Gamble, C. Genes, F. Babovic and A. Pedro, Centre for Digital Built Britain, (CDBB Apollo Cambridge depository). DOI: 10.17863/CAM.43314.

Integration and optimisation of services embedded in the built environment, A. Robinson, Report published for Centre for Digital Built Britain, (Urban Innovation Labs).

Leveraging Private Data for Public Good: A Descriptive Analysis of Existing Practices, S. G. Verhulst, A. Young, M. Winowatan and A.Z. Zahuranec, (GovLab).

Modelling railway station choice: can probabilistic catchments improve demand forecasts for new stations? M. Young, PhD Thesis, (University of Southampton).

Spatial Interaction Modelling for Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects, A.P. Smith and N. Lomax, Conference Paper.

A Simulation Tool to Guide Infrastructure Decisions: System-of-Systems Modeling Aids Prioritization and Uncertainty Planning, J. Hall, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, 5 (3). DOI: 10.1109/MSMC.2019.2913565.

Using system-of-systems modelling and simulation to inform sustainable infrastructure choices, J. Hall, UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC).

2018

Establishing a national water resources system model to inform policy decisions about resilience of water supplies, J. Hall, H. Gavin, M. Mortazavi-Naeini, J. Dennis, P. Hickey and J. Spencer, Abstract presented at the AGU Fall Meeting 2018, 10-14 December, Washington, USA, #PA11A-06 (American Geophysical Union),

Building a Digital Twin: Testing the Effectiveness of Telecommunication Policies in a Virtual World, E. Oughton, Abstract presented at TPRC 46: The 46th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy, March 2018 (SSRN). DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3141527.

Resilience engineering: theory and practice in interdependent infrastructure systems, A. Hickford, S.P. Blainey, A.O. Horelano and R. Pant, Environment Systems and Decisions, 38, 278-291. DOI: 10.1007/s10669-018-9707-4.

2017

National Infrastructure Commission: Infrastructure and Digital Solutions Resilience, Final Report, November 2017 (UCL and Arup).

Diversity in Visualization, IEEE VIS 2017 Panel, R. Borgo, V. Byrd, A. Frank, J. Gaither, R.S. Laramee , R. Metoyer and E. Yang, Summary of panel at IEEE VIS 2016 Conference, Baltimore, USA.

Strategic analysis of the future of national infrastructure, J.W. Hall, S. Thacker, M.C. Ives, Y. Cao, M. Chaudry, S.P. Blainey and E.J. Oughton, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Civil Engineering, 170 (1), 39-47 (Emerald). DOI: 10.1680/jcien.16.00018.