Convergence NNA: Navigating the New Arctic- Understanding Future Systems of Transportation in Arctic Regions, a Workshop Proposal

融合 NNA：航行新北极 - 了解北极地区未来的交通系统，研讨会提案

• 批准号: 1744410
• 负责人: David Wettergreen
• 金额: $ 9.88万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-10-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744410&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Convergence; NNA; Navigating; New; Arctic

The workshop will consider future innovations in transportation technology and policies in the Arctic that could address challenges associated with rapid climate change. One transportation challenge, for example, is the limited network of roads which are now being undermined by permafrost thaw and flooding; while another challenge is the subsistence based rural economies which may face food shortages. The workshop will bring together a number of natural and social scientists and engineers with relevant expertise to consider how autonomous and robotic transportation might address transportation challenges of the new Arctic in the context of social, cultural, economic and environmental systems.The workshop will consider future innovations in transportation technology and policies in the Arctic that could address challenges associated with rapid climate change. This workshop proposes not only to look at the technological and engineering advancements of robotic transportation but to expand collaborations between engineers, social and natural scientists in order to develop new convergent ways of thinking about this technology and its social and environmental impacts. These issues are particularly relevant in the north because of the long distances, rural economies, fragile environments, and majority Indigenous communities that pose both opportunities and challenges to robotic transportation, particularly within the context of globalizing social and economic systems and environmental change. The workshop will be structured to enhance convergent outcomes through a combination of lightning talks, co-design exercises and recombining the initial organizing committees into convergence teams. The workshop will promote convergence by focusing on the critical societal concern of limitations to inland transportation in the Arctic and by bringing together experts from many relevant disciplines of social science, natural science and engineering to devise new creative approaches to address these limitations.

该研讨会将审议未来在北极运输技术和政策方面的创新，以应对与快速气候变化相关的挑战。例如，运输方面的一个挑战是有限的道路网络，目前正受到永久冻土融化和洪水的破坏;而另一个挑战是以生计为基础的农村经济可能面临粮食短缺。研讨会将汇集一些具有相关专业知识的自然和社会科学家和工程师，探讨自主和机器人运输如何在社会、文化、经济和环境系统的背景下应对新北极地区的运输挑战，研讨会将探讨北极地区未来运输技术和政策的创新，以应对与快速气候变化相关的挑战。本次研讨会不仅着眼于机器人运输的技术和工程进步，而且还扩大了工程师，社会和自然科学家之间的合作，以开发新的融合方式来思考这项技术及其社会和环境影响。 这些问题在北方尤其重要，因为北方距离遥远，农村经济，环境脆弱，而且大多数土著社区都为机器人运输带来了机遇和挑战，特别是在全球化的社会和经济体系以及环境变化的背景下。 讲习班的结构将通过闪电会谈、共同设计活动和将最初的组织委员会重组为融合小组，加强融合成果。讲习班将通过以下方式促进趋同：侧重于北极内陆运输限制这一重大社会关切，并汇集社会科学、自然科学和工程学等许多相关学科的专家，以制定新的创造性办法来解决这些限制。