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.

该奖项支持一个研讨会，该研讨会将汇集来自潜水员的领先专家，但是土木工程，城市规划，灾难管理，计算机科学，运营工程，公共政策，感应，能源和其他领域的互补背景，以识别差距和机会，并定义了支持地下城市基础设施系统转型的愿景。世界各地的城市城市一直是经济增长，技术创新和文化活力的主要驱动力。但是，他们的基础设施系统通常是遗产和新组件的拼布，具有不兼容的标准，材料和治理结构。结果，在正常情况下，这种系统的性能本质上是不可预测的，而在受到极端事件的约束时，这种性能是不可预测的。如果没有范式转移基础设施系统的设计，构建和运营，他们可以提供的服务与公民的需求之间的差距将在可预见的未来继续扩大。在城市环境中，由于访问难度以及它们所居住的危害环境，地下基础设施（例如水和废水，运输，电信和权力）所面临的挑战加剧了。通过智能城市和数字双胞胎概念在城市尺度上建立数字模型的早期成功提供了一个有望的方向，现在通过感官和计算中的突破来新实现。但是，关键知识差距仍然是批发变化的障碍。该研讨会将催化创造性的思维和知识交流，目的是设计地下基础设施转型的愿景。它将揭示相关的研究领域，知识差距，研究机会，障碍和基本研究需求。它将有助于确定回答基本问题所需的基本理论和方法，例如“我们如何计划并通过基础基础设施系统为基础建筑系统计划和实现脱碳目标？”和“我们如何在正常，正常和灾难状况变化下优化基础设施的日常运营？”通过与英国的联合研讨会，该奖项将创建国际研究路线图。它还将在各个国家，学科以及学术界和行业之间创造网络机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准，被视为通过评估来获得宝贵的支持。