Conference: US-UK Workshop on Transformation in Urban Underground Infrastructure; 28-29 September 2023

会议：美英城市地下基础设施转型研讨会；

• 批准号: 2334084
• 负责人: Elise Miller-Hooks
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2334084&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; US; UK; Workshop; Transformation

This award supports a workshop that will bring together leading experts from diverse, but complementary backgrounds in civil engineering, urban planning, disaster management, computer science, operations engineering, public policy, sensing, energy and other fields to identify gaps and opportunities for advancement and define a vision for supporting the transformation of underground urban infrastructure systems. Urban cities across the world have been a major driver of economic growth, technological innovation, and cultural vitality. However, their infrastructure systems are often patchworks of legacy and new components with incompatible standards, materials, and governance structures. As a result, the performance of such systems has been inherently unpredictable under normal conditions and more so when subject to extreme events. Without a paradigm shift in how infrastructure systems are engineered, constructed, and operated, the gap between the service they can deliver and the demand from citizens will continue to widen in the foreseeable future. Within urban settings, the challenges faced by underground infrastructures, such as water and wastewater, transportation, telecommunication, and power, are exacerbated due to difficulties in access and the harsh environment in which they reside. Early success in building digital models at city scales through smart city and digital twin concepts offers a promising direction that is now newly enabled by breakthroughs in sensing and computation. However, key knowledge gaps remain a barrier to wholesale changes. The workshop will catalyze creative thinking and knowledge exchange with the purpose of devising a vision for transformation in underground infrastructure. It will expose relevant research areas, knowledge gaps, research opportunities, barriers, and fundamental research needs. It will aid in identifying fundamental theories and methods needed to answer fundamental, open questions, such as, “How do we plan for and achieve decarbonization goals for and by way of underground infrastructure systems?” and “How do we optimize day-to-day operations of underground infrastructures under normal, changing normal, and disaster conditions?” Through a joint workshop with the United Kingdom, this award will create an international research roadmap. It will also generate networking opportunities across nations, disciplines, and between academia and industry.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持举办一个研讨会，该研讨会将汇集来自土木工程、城市规划、灾害管理、计算机科学、运营工程、公共政策、传感、能源和其他领域不同但互补背景的领先专家，以找出差距和进步机会，制定了支持地下城市基础设施系统转型的愿景。世界各地的城市一直是经济增长、技术创新和文化活力的主要驱动力，然而，其基础设施系统往往是标准不兼容的传统和新组件的拼凑而成。 、材料和治理结构。在正常情况下，此类系统的性能本质上是不可预测的，在发生极端事件时更是如此。如果基础设施系统的设计、构建和运营方式没有发生范式转变，它们所能提供的服务与公民的需求之间的差距将会出现。在可预见的未来，城市环境中的地下基础设施（例如供水和污水处理、交通、电信和电力）所面临的挑战将因交通困难及其所处的恶劣环境而加剧。通过智慧城市构建城市规模的数字模型数字孪生概念提供了一个充满希望的方向，该方向现在通过传感和计算的突破而得以实现。然而，关键的知识差距仍然是大规模变革的障碍，该研讨会将促进创造性思维和知识交流，以制定转型愿景。它将揭示相关的研究领域、知识差距、研究机会、障碍和基础研究需求，它将有助于确定回答基本的、开放性问题所需的基本理论和方法，例如“我们如何规划”。并通过以下方式实现脱碳目标地下基础设施系统？”和“我们如何在正常、变化的正常和灾害条件下优化地下基础设施的日常运营？”通过与英国的联合研讨会，该奖项将制定一个国际研究路线图。还将在国家、学科以及学术界和工业界之间产生交流机会。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。