GitHub repository: Eawag-SWW/TechAppA
Primary language: R
Created: 2017-11-30T09:51:20Z
Description: TechAppA is a model written in R for the quantification of the appropriateness of technologies (techs) in a given context (case) considering uncertainties. It has been developed to assess the appropriateness of sanitation technologies in developing urban areas using a number of appropriateness criteria. The development was part of the GRASP project (Generation and Assessment of Sanitation options for urban Planning) by Dorothee Spuhler at Eawag: the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. The input of the model is a techdata.csv file and a casedata.csv file that contain for each criteria uncertainty function of how the tech performs regarding a given condition (e.g. temperature) and a condition given by the case (e.g. temperature distribution over the year). By matching the tech criteria with the case criteria, a tech criteria appropriateness score is generated. The aggregation of all scores results in a technology appropriateness score (TAS) for each tech in a given case.