I-Corps: Housing Recovery Platform

这一I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力体现在解决弱势群体和较不弱势群体之间恢复时间的差异。恢复时间的差异与健康和福祉的差异有关。差异是存在于"正常"蓝天下的正义和公平问题;这些公平和正义问题不仅持续存在，而且可能由于风暴及其后果的影响而扩大。汇聚、清点、匹配和分配是一个支持协调管理捐赠物资和志愿者劳动的平台，旨在加快修复流离失所的弱势家庭受损房屋的速度。复苏利益攸关方需要技术解决方案，以更好地协调和跟踪住房复苏。该解决方案响应了社区的迫切需求，并通过社区能力建设和参与验证了该方法。这为这一住房回收平台的商业潜力提供了支持。这个I-Corps项目的基础是开发一个利用创新的优化调度模块的住房恢复平台。该模块包含旨在更有效地协调这些资源的算法，以便在全球范围内减少流离失所的弱势家庭的流离失所时间。因此，减少流离失所时间的差异，并相应改善人口福祉。该模块中的算法提供了用于评估流离失所家庭的脆弱性、受影响结构的损坏状态以及材料和劳动力的可用性的决策演算，然后安排工作包的排序。该模块包括优化过程，以将分配的工作包排队，更新调度的工作包的日历，并生成每日的堆场电子票。在日历上的放置顺序取决于优先级分数。通过优先级评分，协调算法优化了工作包的时间安排，以最大限度地减少弱势家庭的流离失所时间。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is found in addressing disparities in recovery times between vulnerable and less-vulnerable populations. Disparities in recovery time are associated with disparities in health and wellbeing. Disparities are justice and equity issues that exist under ‘normal’ blue skies; these equity and justice issues not only persist but are likely to widen due to the impact of a storm and its aftermath. The Convergence, Inventory, Matching, and Assignment is a platform that supports the coordinated management of donated materials and volunteer labor in effort to speed the repair of damaged homes of displaced vulnerable households. There to be an appetite among recovery stakeholders for technical solutions that offer better coordination and tracking of the housing recovery. The solution responds to a pressing community need and the approach has been validated through community capacity building and engagement. This lends support to the commercial potential of this housing recovery platform. This I-Corps project is based on the development of a housing recovery platform that utilizes an innovative Optimization Scheduling Module. This module contains algorithms designed to more efficiently coordinate these resources so there is a global reduction in displacement times among displaced, vulnerable households. Thus, a reduction in disparities in displacement times and an associated improvements in population wellbeing. The algorithms in the module provide the decision calculus used to evaluate the vulnerability of displaced households, the damage state of impacted structures, and availabilities of materials and labor, and then schedule a sequencing of work packages. The module includes an optimization process to queue assigned work packages, update a calendar of scheduled work packages, and generate daily yard e-tickets. The order of placement on the calendar is dependent upon the prioritizations score. Using the prioritization score, the coordinating algorithm is optimizing the scheduling of the work packages to minimize the displacement times of vulnerable households.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.