Aim
Infrastructure Asset Management is considered as the integrated and multidisciplinary set of strategies that are utilized by the government and municipality in terms of sustaining the infrastructure of the public asset including the water treatment facilities, roads, bridges, sewer lines, Railways and utility grid (Ehalaiye, Redmayne and Laswad 2021). In this research paper the two main pillars of the infrastructure assets management will be discussed, mainly the standardizing of the fundamentals and the catalyst of the excellent system of the government on the municipality of Abu Dhabi City. The focus of the proposed research will be to enhance the wellbeing of the Abu Dhabi City municipality by the help of the above stated pillars of the infrastructure Asset Management (Prasad 2022). The research paper is going to include the information of the three catalysts namely Innovation agility and free emptiness what’s the development of wellbeing enhancement in the municipality of Abu Dhabi City.
The aim of the proposed research paper will be to identify the excellent fundamentals as well as catalyst that needs to be implemented in the infrastructure of Asset Management and the overall transformation that is going to be initiated into the smart management as a part of the transformation that is going to be implemented in Abu Dhabi City in order to develop it into a smart City. The research paper will also in to identify the interconnection that is existence between the management systems of the Smart City (Ehalaiye, Redmayne and Laswad 2021).
The significance of the research is to create a standard for the fundamentals and the catalyst that are associated with the improvement of the excellent system of the government as the pillars that are important for the assets management of the infrastructure that is associated with the Abu Dhabi City, United Arab Emirates. The study is going to actively contribute towards the development of the city into a smart one which is highly beneficial in terms of improvement of the overall service that is associated with the existing system of the government in the Abu Dhabi City.
The selected topic is actively contributing towards the development of the current infrastructure that is followed in Abu Dhabi city and it is also capable of bringing a strategic change in the different fundamentals that are currently followed by the infrastructure Asset Management in the City and utilize the aspects of innovation, pre-emptiness and agility in order to enhance the wellbeing of the people that are associated with the city. The research topic is going to be highly beneficial in terms of creating a change in the existing infrastructure as its management and make the life of the people easier by turning the Abu Dhabi City into a smart City (Mitinskiy et al. 2018). The study proposes the anticipated outcome which is to recommend the effective measures that can be utilized to ensure that the fundamentals are standardized and catalysts are used effectively to improve the excellence system of the government and act as a pillar of the current infrastructure efforts management in Abu Dhabi City, United Arab Emirates (Yang and Frangopol 2020).
Significance of the study
The objectives of the research paper include –
- To identify the catalysts that can be used for the improvement of the government excellence system in Abu Dhabi City.
- To standardize the current fundamental that are followed in the infrastructure assets management in Abu Dhabi City.
- To recommend the effective measures by the help of which it can be ensured that the fundamentals and the catalyst of the government excellence system are standardized as the pillars of infrastructure assets management in Abu Dhabi City, United Arab Emirates.
According to Noori, Hoppe and de Jong (2020), with the implementation of internet of things and the new paradigm associated with Communication Technology it has become very much important for the cities around the world to transform into Smart City. Ambitious leadership in the assets management is targeted to the driver behind the transformation of Dubai into a smart City. It has been identified by Almeida et al. (2022), the infrastructure assets are associated with the economic growth of a country and they are capable of in helping the well-being of the citizens that are associated with it. The transformation of a city is dependent on the governance excellence and the improvement in the assets management. According to Petratos (2020), investment in the current infrastructure as well as industrial assets has increased drastically in the current year and it is very much important in order to increment growth in a city. With the implementation of technological advancement, the United Arab Emirates has successfully in hands the sustainability in order to enhance the wellbeing of the people that are present in it. It has been identified by Gatti and Chiarella (2020), the infrastructure investing is considered to be a very important aspect in order to improve the technological as well as social cultural Trends that are currently associated with a place. Infrastructure investment is a very important aspect that needs to be taken into account in order to create a balance between the income stream that are reliable in nature and the capital gains of the government. As identified by De Jong, Hoppe and Noori (2019), a major economic rise has been identified in the United Arab Emirates in the last few years which creates the opportunity to implement urbanization that is sustainable in nature in order to promote well-being among the people that are associated with the city in order to implement various actions that can actively improve the current assets management in Abu Dhabi. In the words of Jarrah (2019), the impact that is generated on the investment process in the problems that are associated with Abu Dhabi City due to the transformation into a smart City is considered to be a positive aspect for the city. According to Zaneldin and Sivaloganathan (2018), technology has impacted the construction sector in United Arab Emirates and with the implementation of technological advancement in lot of investment has been conducted by the government of United Arab Emirates on the construction sector in order to implement growth in it.
Interpretivism research philosophy is going to be followed in this paper. The interpreter with some research philosophy is based on the current principle that is capable of stating the researcher about the specific role that is associated with the variables observed in the current social world (Alharahsheh and Pius 2020). The interpretivism research philosophy is going to be very much helpful in terms of understanding the catalyst that are associated with the current system that is followed by the government excellence of the Abu Dhabi City and it will be very much helpful in analyzing the data and identify the recommended process that needs to be stated to the city in order to turn it into a smart City (Ryan 2018).
Overview of the topic selected and overview of the research topic
Secondary collection of data is the method that is going to be selected in this research paper. The previously published articles and journals and internet sources will be utilized for gathering data in this research paper (Johhson and Sylvia 2018) (Taber et al. 2020). The selection of this process is conducted based on the fact that a wide variety and range of data is going to be received by the researcher which is going to be highly feasible in implementation of the interpretivism research philosophy in order to fulfill the objectives that has been selected for this research paper.
Secondary qualitative research is going to be utilized in this research paper in order to get a proper understanding about the topic (Taber et al. 2020). The research design that is going to be selected for this paper will be helpful in conducting the thematic analysis on the data that is going to be collected for the research paper. Thematic analysis will be providing a proper idea about the current perspective of the customers that are associated with the Abu Dhabi City and it will also be very much helpful in identify the common aspects and problems that are faced by the city (Castleberry and Nolen 2018).
The anticipated outcomes of the study are to recommend the effective means by the help of which digital digestion of the fundamentals and the catalyst of the government excellent system as the main features of the infrastructure assets management can be implemented in Abu Dhabi city, in United Arab Emirates. With the help of this research paper, it will be possible to identify the exact process by the help of which the city can be transformed into a smart City (Heaton and Parlikad 2019).
Main limitations of this project are going to be the lack of primary research in which it would have been possible to gather real time data that would have been better for generating answers for the research objective that has been selected for it (Heap and Waters 2019) (Olejnik and Reshetkova 2020).
Ethical aspects are going to be followed in this research paper. The data that is going to be collected from previously published articles and journals will be kept intact without tempering them.
Conclusions
To conclude it can be stated that bi current research topic that has been selected for this proposed study is going to be very much helpful for the Abu Dhabi City. After the completion of the research paper, it is expected that the recommended solutions can be provided to the city to change its overall into structure by utilization of the available catalyst in transforming the city into a smart City.
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