Twinning for Decarbonising Transport (TransiT)

脱碳运输结对 (TransiT)

• 批准号: EP/Y006909/1
• 负责人: Philip Greening
• 金额: $ 63.59万
• 依托单位: Heriot-Watt University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY006909%2F1
• 关键词: Twinning; Decarbonising; Transport; TransiT

The UK's transport sector faces urgent challenges in dealing with climate change, energy transitions and cyber security. Decarbonisation of transport, with its shared infrastructure and complex interdependencies, throws into sharp focus the need to consider a whole-system view of physical and socio-economic systems in infrastructure and operations. Existing digital twin models offer risk free interaction and scenario planning with individual cyber-physical infrastructure systems; however, they often operate in isolation from each other, making assumptions about behaviour of external factors at the analysis boundary. In the net-zero context, these externalities, which often include aspects such as energy supply and grid infrastructure, as well as the behaviour of other transport modes, will change rapidly due to the pace of infrastructure and operational interventions needed for rapid decarbonisation; this will impact all transport systems simultaneously. We therefore need to develop a new paradigm, extending boundaries of digital twins into an interconnected whole system view, and incorporating digital twins with other types of modelling. This paradigm shift represents the only viable pathway to de-risking the investments needed to achieve net-zero by 2050, and to be effective it must be widely accepted by all. We passionately believe that the new paradigm needs to be co-created with stakeholders through an exhaustive and inclusive process of engagement across all communities. The Twinning in Decarbonising Transport (TransiT) project will lead a multi-disciplinary, inclusive, and extensive consultation across industry, academia, civil society and policymakers to develop a network capable of identifying both the most pertinent issues in UK transport decarbonisation that can be addressed by greater use of digital twins, and the most fruitful links between such digital twins across transport modes to maximise benefits to all groups alike, including policymakers, transport practitioners, and transport users from wider society.Our cross-sector consortium will assist in planning a proposal for a national research hub to tackle these issues. The hub will be designed to focus on where investable research and maximum societal impact can be sought by combining digital twins from different modes and encouraging the secure data-sharing activities that will enable this. The agenda will be shaped by an inclusive consultation through a series of events focused on collaboration and co-creation. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) principles will be embedded from the start to gain the necessary depth and breadth of views necessary for formation of a robust research agenda.

英国交通运输部门在应对气候变化、能源转型和网络安全方面面临着紧迫挑战。交通运输脱碳及其共享的基础设施和复杂的相互依赖性，使人们更加关注需要考虑基础设施和运营中的物理和社会经济系统的全系统视角。现有的数字孪生模型提供与各个网络物理基础设施系统的无风险交互和场景规划；然而，它们通常彼此孤立地运作，对分析边界上的外部因素的行为做出假设。在净零排放的背景下，这些外部性通常包括能源供应和电网基础设施以及其他运输方式的行为等方面，这些外部性将由于快速脱碳所需的基础设施和运营干预的步伐而迅速变化；这将同时影响所有交通系统。因此，我们需要开发一种新的范式，将数字孪生的边界扩展到互连的整个系统视图，并将数字孪生与其他类型的建模相结合。这种范式转变是降低到 2050 年实现净零排放所需投资风险的唯一可行途径，并且为了有效，它必须被所有人广泛接受。我们坚信，新的范式需要通过所有社区的详尽和包容性的参与过程与利益相关者共同创建。脱碳交通结对 (TransiT) 项目将在行业、学术界、民间社会和政策制定者之间进行多学科、包容性和广泛的磋商，以建立一个网络，能够识别英国交通脱碳中可以解决的最相关问题通过更多地使用数字孪生，以及跨交通模式的数字孪生之间最富有成效的联系，最大限度地为所有群体带来利益，包括政策制定者、交通从业者和更广泛社会的交通用户。我们的跨部门联盟将协助规划国家研究中心的提案以解决这些问题。该中心的设计重点是通过结合不同模式的数字孪生并鼓励安全的数据共享活动来实现可投资的研究和最大的社会影响。该议程将通过一系列以合作和共同创造为重点的活动进行包容性磋商来制定。平等、多样性和包容性 (EDI) 原则将从一开始就被纳入其中，以获得形成强有力的研究议程所需的必要深度和广度的观点。