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

研讨会将考虑北极未来在交通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，一个交通挑战是有限的公路网，目前正受到永久冻土融化和洪水的破坏；而另一个挑战是可能面临粮食短缺的以自给自足为基础的农村经济。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，讨论自主和机器人交通如何在社会、文化、经济和环境系统的背景下应对新北极的交通挑战。研讨会将考虑未来北极交通技术和政策的创新，以应对与快速气候变化相关的挑战。该研讨会建议不仅关注机器人运输的技术和工程进步，而且扩大工程师、社会和自然科学家之间的合作，以开发关于这项技术及其社会和环境影响的新的统一思维方式。这些问题在北方特别相关，因为距离遥远、农村经济、脆弱的环境和占多数的土著社区给机器人运输带来了机遇和挑战，特别是在社会和经济系统全球化以及环境变化的背景下。讲习班的结构将通过闪电谈话、共同设计练习和将最初的组织委员会重组为汇聚团队来加强汇聚成果。讲习班将重点关注北极内陆运输的局限性这一关键的社会关切，并将社会科学、自然科学和工程学的许多相关学科的专家聚集在一起，设计新的创造性办法来解决这些局限性，从而促进趋同。

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.