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Quantum Optimisation for City-Scale Resource and Utility Management

QUBO and quantum annealing for city-scale water, energy, and waste management optimisation.

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For city utility managers and smart city operations teams. Covers QUBO formulations for water distribution scheduling, district heating dispatch, waste collection routing (CVRP), and multi-modal transport timetabling. Includes quantum annealing and quantum-inspired solver benchmarks against OR-Tools and Gurobi.

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Course content is structured into sessions below. Each session is configurable to your organisation's environment, threat model, and objectives.

#	Session	Topics
1	City Resource Management as Combinatorial Optimisation Why water, energy, waste, and transport scheduling are quantum-amenable problems
2	QUBO Formulations for Municipal Operations Encoding city utility problems for quantum and quantum-inspired solvers	Water distribution: pressure zone scheduling, pump dispatch, and leak detection sensor placement as QUBO with hydraulic flow constraints District heating and cooling: thermal load balancing across substations, CHP dispatch, and storage charge/discharge scheduling under demand uncertainty Waste collection: capacitated vehicle routing (CVRP) for multi-compartment collection vehicles with time windows and depot assignment constraints
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3	Multi-Modal Transport Network Optimisation Bus, tram, metro, and bike-share scheduling as a unified optimisation problem	Vehicle routing problem (VRP) variants: time-dependent travel, passenger transfer connections, and fleet electrification constraints as QUBO terms QAOA for timetable synchronisation: minimising passenger transfer wait times across bus, tram, and metro networks at city interchange nodes Benchmark-specific performance comparisons: quantum annealing on 100-200 variable VRP instances versus OR-Tools and Gurobi on equivalent fleet sizes
4	Interactive Demonstration QUBO formulation and quantum-inspired solver for a city utility problem	Facilitator-led formulation of a 30-zone waste collection routing problem as QUBO with capacity and time window constraints Solving on Fujitsu Digital Annealer and D-Wave quantum annealer: comparing solution quality, computation time, and constraint satisfaction Scaling analysis: at what zone count does classical OR-Tools lose ground to quantum-inspired and quantum annealing approaches
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5	NISQ Constraints and Quantum-Inspired Alternatives What works today versus the fault-tolerant horizon	Current quantum annealer limits: D-Wave Advantage handles 5,000+ qubits but sparse connectivity constrains fully connected city scheduling problems to 150-200 variables Quantum-inspired classical solvers: Fujitsu Digital Annealer and Toshiba SQBM+ solving 100,000+ variable municipal operations problems on classical hardware today Fault-tolerant timeline: 2028-2032 estimates for gate-based machines capable of production-scale city resource optimisation
6	Q&A and Implementation Planning

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