Study On Integrative Management Of Underground Pipelines In Nanjing

Underground pipelines are to be important as the lifeline for a city and they are the basis of a city’s existence and development. Nowadays, Nanjing is developing rapidly. To keep the city operating efficiently and rapidly, it seems to be very important to study the underground Pipelines and find some effective management measures.In this paper, the evolvement of management mode of Nanjing’s underground pipelines is summarized and the status is analyzed. Totally, there are two types of management mode. One type is used by midtown, where most of the pipelines are planned and built by government. The other one is used by newly developed area, where the most of the pipelines are planned by the cooperation of management departments and managed by quasi-public corporations which are supervised by government. There are several differences between the two types of management mode which have their own characteristic in whole process.The management problems such as deficiency and excess are discussed in this paper. These problems which exist in management mode of Nanjing’s underground pipelines are because of multifarious reasons. Include mainly the follow:mistakes in ideology, lack of laws, decentralization of management departments, ambiguity in managerial function, challenges from market economy, laggard management techniques and so on.Based on the conclusion discussed above and the summary of managerial experience from occident, some elicitations are searched according with Nanjing’s characteristics. The elicitations including the method how adapt to market economy and urbanization and how to complete the supervisory system. Some methods are suggested relating to the steps of manage process. Several differences between the methods for two types of management mode are discussed above. In the end, an ideal mode for the integrative management of underground pipelines in Nanjing is brought out and the study for the future is previewed.