Workshop: Performance-Based Infrastructure Asset Management (PBIAM); Istanbul, Turkey; July 7-9, 2008

这笔拨款为美国参与者提供资金，参加2008年7月7日至9日在土耳其伊斯坦布尔举行的为期3天的国际研讨会，剖析基于绩效的基础设施资产管理（PBIAM）范式。该研讨会由美国联邦公路管理局（FHWA）共同主办。土耳其、欧盟委员会、加拿大和日本机构已承诺提供部分支持。虽然人们普遍认识到基础设施是包含人类、自然和工程因素的多领域、多学科系统，但目前人们对如何整合和利用创新范式和概念来推进基础设施的工程和管理，特别是交通基础设施，知之甚少，也没有达成共识。该研讨会的主要知识价值将是将迄今为止仍然分开的专家和利益相关者聚集在一起，以便开始通过利用公路和桥梁进行现实案例研究来弥合这一差距。公路运输基础设施及其与其他运输方式和其他基础设施的联系和相互依赖性将作为本案例研究加以利用。土耳其位于欧洲和亚洲的十字路口，伊斯坦布尔连接亚洲和欧洲的高速公路基础设施将成为讨论的绝佳背景。研讨会的具体目标包括：(1)将来自学术界、政府和工业界的多学科工程师和科学家聚集在一起，讨论如何整合和利用创新的范例和概念，以推进基础设施的工程和管理，特别是公路交通基础设施。研讨会将探讨资产管理、基于绩效的工程、多危害风险、多领域系统识别、应用系统分析、健康监测和智能系统之间的概念和范例之间的相互关系和协同作用，以及相互依赖性、弹性和可持续性。(2)构建公路交通基础设施PBIAM本体，克服阻碍基础设施工程与管理创新的概念与范式有效整合的碎片化问题。本体被用作一种机制，用于创建共享相似世界观和使用相同语言的社区，以促进面临集成挑战的高度复杂的新兴研究领域。太空、国防、人工智能、IT都是例子。(3)制定PBIAM国际合作研究议程。这一议程将包括深入了解和分享欧洲、远东和北美在PBIAM方面的最新经验和进展。它还将允许了解世界不同地区的不同社会和文化机构以及相关的人类系统如何影响PBIAM的应用。迄今为止，还没有任何一个国家或区域找到有效、安全、可持续和可靠地运行和维护其基础设施的最佳和最有效的框架。创新之路必须经过全球性、协调性、多领域、多学科的研究。本次研讨会就是以这种方式构思的，本体论和PBIAM研究议程将通过一个与FHWA网站相连的网站广泛传播，以促进全美交通基础设施管理人员采用PBIAM原则。为了促进传统上代表性不足的群体的专家参加这些讲习班，将采用若干战略。首先，研讨会组委会将直接联系传统上代表性不足的群体的主要土木工程教师和从业者，并邀请他们参加研讨会。为了帮助确定合格的教师和高级研究生，将利用位于德雷塞尔大学的费城路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划。为了帮助从代表性不足的群体中识别从业者，将联系与服务于代表性不足群体的专业协会相关的教师和国家领导人，并要求他们提名合格的参与者。该项目由土木、机械和制造创新司和国际科学与工程办公室资助。

This grant provides funding for US participants to attend a 3-Day international workshop in Istanbul, Turkey during July 7-9, 2008, to dissect the paradigm of Performance-Based Infrastructure Asset Management (PBIAM). The workshop is co-sponsored by the US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Partial support has been promised by Turkish, European Commission, Canadian and Japanese agencies. While it is broadly recognized that infrastructures are multi-domain and multi-disciplinary systems with human, natural and engineered elements, there is currently little awareness and no consensus regarding how innovative paradigms and concepts need to be integrated and leveraged to advance the engineering and management of infrastructures in general and transportation infrastructures in particular. The principal intellectual merit of the workshop will be to bring experts and stakeholders that have so far remained apart, in order to start bridging this gap by leveraging highways and bridges for a realistic case study. The highway transportation infrastructure, its linkages and interdependencies to other modes of transportation and other infrastructures will be leveraged as this case study. Turkey is at the cross-roads between Europe and Asia, and the highway infrastructure connecting Asia and Europe at Istanbul will serve as an excellent backdrop for the discussions. Specific objectives of the workshop include: (1) To bring a multi-disciplinary group of engineers and scientists from academe, government and industry together for discussing how innovative paradigms and concepts may be integrated and leveraged to advance the engineering and management of infrastructures in general, and highway transportation infrastructure in particular. The workshop will explore the inter-relations and synergies between the concepts and paradigms of asset management, performance-based engineering, multihazards risks, multi-domain systems identification, applied systems analysis, health monitoring and intelligent systems in addition to interdependence, resilience and sustainability. (2) To construct Ontology of PBIAM of highway transportation infrastructure to help overcome the fragmentation that is obstructing effective integration and leveraging of concepts and paradigms with potential to innovate engineering and management of infrastructures. Ontology has been leveraged as a mechanism for creating a community sharing a similar worldview and speaking the same language in order to foster highly complex emerging fields of study that face integration challenges. Space, defense, AI, IT are examples. (3) To develop an International Collaborative Research Agenda on PBIAM. This Agenda will incorporate an in-depth understanding and sharing of recent experiences and advances on PBIAM in Europe, the Far East and North America. It will also permit an understanding of how different social and cultural institutions and related human systems in different regions of the world impact PBIAM applications.No one country or region has yet discovered the best and most effective framework for efficient, safe, sustainable and secure operation and preservation of their infrastructures. The path to innovation has to go through global, coordinated, multi-domain, and multi-disciplinary research. This workshop was conceived in this manner and the Ontology and PBIAM Research Agenda will be broadly disseminated through a web site linked to FHWA's site to promote the adoption of PBIAM principles by transportation infrastructure stewards throughout the US. To facilitate the participation of experts from traditionally underrepresented groups in these workshops, several strategies will be employed. First, leading civil engineering faculty and practitioners from traditionally underrepresented groups will be directly contacted by the workshop organizing committee and invited to participate in the workshop. To aid in the identification of qualified faculty and advanced graduate students, the Philadelphia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, which is housed at Drexel University will be leveraged. To aid in the identification of practitioners from underrepresented groups, faculty members and national leaders associated with professional societies that serve underrepresented groups, will be contacted and asked to nominate qualified participants.This project is funded by the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation and the Office of International Science and Engineering.