Three City Infrastructure Asset Ontologies for Ground, Roads, and Pipes

Three ontologies describe properties and processes of city infrastructure assets: the ground, roads, and buried pipes. Domain experts in civil, geotechnical, environmental, and water engineering were involved in their development. The ontologies are written in OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax.

Use Cases

• Modeling property-process relationships in city infrastructure based on defined ontological interactions.
• Supporting maintenance planning for buried pipes based on ontology-defined asset properties.
• Informing geotechnical assessments based on ground property relationships described in the ontology.

Strengths

• Ontologies were developed with involvement from domain experts in multiple engineering fields.
• The ontologies define specific relationships, such as how ground stiffness is influenced by water content.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

University of Leeds

Collection Method

Ontology development by author and domain experts.