CIVIC-PG Track B Digital Twin-based Framework for Development of Schools as Smart & Connected Community Resilience Hubs

正如联合国政府间气候变化专门委员会(IPCC)最新的报告所描述的那样，气候变化以及日益频繁和严重的灾害可能很快就会超出人类的适应能力。基础设施投资不足、社会边缘化以及在脆弱社区受到影响时适应能力降低，可能会放大灾难的严重性。因此，加强弱势社区的复原力和适应能力是应急管理人员和社区领导人面临的一项关键挑战。在这个NSF CITAL-PG项目中，我们开发了一个社区主导的框架，使一所公立学校成为俄勒冈州波特兰市社区的试点社区复原力中心(CRH)。CRH是值得信赖的、社区主导的设施，在灾难事件发生之前、期间或之后为公民提供支持。这一研究和示范项目将提高社区自给自足能力，在灾难事件(如野火、地震、洪水)之前、期间和之后帮助更多有需要的社区成员，同时还将确定与社区和城市领导人以及急救人员一起发展CRH网络的价值。这项研究将阐明发展CRH网络的战略和逻辑，该网络可以在美国其他社区复制。该项目的发现将通过与NIST赞助的全球城市团队挑战赛超级集群的合作进行传播，并将有助于CRH的未来发展。NSF CITAL-PG项目将采取关键步骤，制定地方CRH如何连接以形成社区复原力网络(CRN)的变革性愿景，利用CRH社会技术基础设施框架，并在灾难事件期间为更大地理区域的社区提供服务。我们缺乏对中断的动态特征和在多危险灾难事件期间演变的紧急响应需求的深入了解。该项目的主要目标是调查“数字孪生”技术如何促进社区主导的CRH社会技术基础设施的建立，该基础设施整合不断发展的社区需求、资源和条件，以促进应急响应、及时的信息共享、弹性连接和跨CRH网络的资源分配，以应对灾难事件。这将为建立CRN奠定基础，该网络利用最新的城市管理和社区主导的战略来扩大CRH的资源恢复能力、分布式灾难响应(跨脆弱社区和CRH)以及数据驱动的灾难响应决策。这个项目是公民创新挑战的一部分，该挑战是由NSF、能源部车辆技术办公室、国土安全部科学和技术局以及联邦应急管理机构合作的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

As the most recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report describes, climate change and the growing frequency and severity of disasters could soon outpace humanity's capacity to adapt. The severity of a disaster can be amplified by inadequate infrastructure investment, social marginalization, and a reduced capacity to adapt when a vulnerable community is impacted. Strengthening vulnerable communities’ resilience and capacity to adapt is, therefore, a key challenge for emergency managers and community leaders. In this NSF CIVIC-PG project, we develop a community-led framework for adapting a public school to become a pilot Community Resilience Hub (CRH) for a community in the city of Portland, OR. CRHs are trusted, community-led facilities to support citizens before, during, or after a disaster event. This research and demonstration project will improve community self-sufficiency reaching more community members in need before, during and after a disaster event (e.g., wildfire, earthquake, flood) while also establishing the value of developing a network of CRHs in conjunction with community and city leaders and first responders. The research will elucidate strategies and logic for development of a network of CRHs that can be replicated in other communities across the United States. The findings of this project will be disseminated through collaboration with a NIST-sponsored Global City Teams Challenge SuperCluster and will be instrumental to the future development of CRHs.This NSF CIVIC-PG project will take critical steps toward developing a transformative vision of how local CRHs can connect to form a Community Resilience Network (CRN) leveraging the CRH sociotechnical infrastructure framework and serving communities across a larger geographic area during a disaster event. We lack an in-depth understanding of the dynamic characteristics of disruptions and the emergency response needs that evolve during a multi-hazard disaster event. The project’s primary goal is to investigate how “digital twin” technology can facilitate establishment of community-led CRH sociotechnical infrastructure that integrates evolving community needs, resources, and conditions to facilitate emergency response, timely information-sharing, resilient connectivity, and resource distribution across a network of CRHs in response to disaster events. This will lay the foundation for establishment of a CRN that leverages updated city management and community-led strategies to expand CRH resource resilience capacity, distributed disaster response (across vulnerable communities and CRHs), and data-driven decision-making on disaster response. This project is part of the CIVIC Innovation Challenge which is a collaboration of NSF, the Department of Energy's Vehicle Technology Office, and the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate and Federal Emergency Management Agency.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.