Municipal governments face mounting pressure to deliver infrastructure services with constrained resources, driving interest in large language models (LLMs) for planning and operational support. Yet empirical evidence reveals a persistent gap between analytical capability and governance readiness: while LLMs can replic...
Alence Poudel, Carla Barrios, Paola De La Torre et al.· Discover Cities· 0 citations
Water utilities struggle to manage aging infrastructure with constrained budgets. Traditional asset management depends on historical failure data, and hydraulic models analyze system performance, but these approaches often operate in isolation. This planning-oriented case study from Sugar Land, TX, presents the hydra...
Alence Poudel, Carla Barrios, V. Mehta et al.· Journal of water resources p...· 0 citations
The Foundation First framework is proposed, a conceptual readiness pathway for small and midsize cities that treats data quality, governance capacity, cybersecurity, and public trust as prerequisites for responsible DT deployment, not afterthoughts.