The main goal of the project POWER (Political and sOcial awareness on Water EnviRonmental challenges) is to provide information about water issues to citizens, professionals and policy makers and enable knowledge sharing between them. Local Water Community Platforms have been developed. The Platforms are focused on four water related issues presented in four Key Demonstration Cities. The research presented in this paper is focused on the elicitation of user needs and an initial consultation of the designed Platforms.
Authors: Anna Strzelecka (Cubit), Monica Pianosi (De Montfort University)
Keywords: water management, citizen engagement, POWER project, governance, smart technologies
Karim Abu Salem, Marco Maganzi, Vincenzo Binante, Vittorio Cipolla
2018
Cubit, Università di Pisa
Abstract
PARSIFAL is a Horizon 2020 project, started on May 2017, with the aim to design an innovative aircraft, based on the "PrandtlPlane" (PrP) configuration, for the civil aviation of the future. The PrP configuration allows us to reduce the fuel consumption and the external noise, especially during low speed flight.
The high aerodynamic performances are used to limit the span to 36m, compliant with ICAO Aerodrome Reference Code C standard, and to extend the payload capacity to 250-350 passengers without significant penalties of aerodynamic efficiency.
The paper presents the overall characteristics of this innovative aircraft and how the PrP configuration could allow to improve the civil air transport of the future, as far as aircraft manufacturers, airports, airlines and passengers are concerned; in particular, some aspects of the architectural solutions and the aerodynamic design and optimization are underlined in subsonic and transonic regimes.
