🤖 AI Summary
Contemporary pipeline transportation theory is fragmented across disciplines and lacks integration, rendering it inadequate for addressing 21st-century infrastructure challenges related to systemic resilience and sustainability. To bridge this gap, this study proposes the General Theory of Pipeline Transportation (GTPT), introducing a novel “triple-domain coupling” paradigm integrating physical systems, full life-cycle dynamics, and socioeconomic dimensions—with resilience as the central design principle and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as quantifiable operational criteria. Through systematic literature synthesis, cross-domain dynamical modeling, SDG-aligned metric embedding, and quantitative resilience assessment, we establish the first axiomatized theoretical framework for pipeline transportation. GTPT provides unified guidance for planning, operation, maintenance, and governance of critical infrastructure, significantly enhancing long-term adaptive capacity and sustainability-oriented decision-making. It offers a transferable methodology for resilient infrastructure development across multiple sectors.
📝 Abstract
The science of pipeline transport is currently governed by a collection of fragmented, discipline-specific theories that are inadequate for addressing the systemic challenges of 21st-century infrastructure. This paper introduces and formalizes a new, unified theory: the General Theory of Piping Transportation (GTPT), formulated by Darwisman. The GTPT posits that a pipeline system is a complex socio-technical entity whose state and long-term viability are determined by the fully coupled interaction of three interdependent domains: Physical Dynamics (Φ), Life-Cycle Dynamics (Λ), and Socio-Economic Dynamics (Σ). This paper presents the core postulates of the GTPT, which are derived from a systematic synthesis of the fragmented existing literature. The prescriptive power of the theory is illustrated by contrasting the strategic outcomes derived from the GTPT against those from classical theories. By defining resilience as the primary design objective and operationalizing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the GTPT provides a new theoretical foundation for the design, management, and governance of infrastructure across all critical sectors.