Collaboration Dimensions

SMART will be the first facility in Australia that integrates teaching and infrastructure research via independent, research-based, publicly accessible, and coordinated analysis with simulation of interdependent infrastructure. We expect extensive demand, (both nationally and internationally) for such a capability, so providing external access to SMART will be an important component of its operation.

Governments, engineers and other professionals face the challenge of modernising the fundamental structures and choosing between a range of options to invest limited funds for infrastructure development. This requires a range of “what if” modelling and assessments of interdependencies.

There is no think tank that these professionals can access to gain comprehensive independent services. 

SMART would take the general concept two steps further and extend infrastructure simulation and analytic capabilities beyond threat scenarios to include optimisation and decision making scenarios that would enable effective infrastructure planning and analysis as well as using the full facility as a teaching platform. 

The SMART Simulation Centre would also directly link with a range of theoretical and experimental research units so that its modelling and simulation capabilities would be underpinned by practical research and teaching scenarios. 

In particular, crucial to SMART's success will be the formation of partnerships with the key agencies identified below, who are existing players, data  holders or are strategically aligned.