I-Corps: Housing Recovery Platform

这个i-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力体现在解决脆弱人口和较不脆弱人口在恢复时间方面的差距。康复时间的差异与健康和福祉的差异有关。不平等是在“正常”蓝天下存在的公平和公平问题；这些公平和公平问题不仅持续存在，而且由于风暴及其后果的影响，可能会扩大。汇聚、清点、配对和分配是一个平台，支持对捐赠物资和志愿者劳动的协调管理，以努力加快流离失所弱势家庭受损房屋的修复。复苏利益攸关方需要能够更好地协调和跟踪住房复苏的技术解决方案。该解决方案满足了社区的迫切需求，并通过社区能力建设和参与得到了验证。这为这个房地产复苏平台的商业潜力提供了支持。这个i-Corps项目是基于一个住房恢复平台的开发，该平台利用了一个创新的优化调度模块。这一单元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，流离失所时间差距的缩小和人口福祉的相关改善。该模块中的算法提供了决策演算，用于评估流离失所家庭的脆弱性、受影响建筑的损坏状态以及材料和劳动力的可用性，然后安排工作包的排序。该模块包括对分配的工作包进行排队的优化过程，更新调度的工作包的日历，以及生成每日码数电子罚单。日历上的排列顺序取决于优先排序分数。使用优先排序分数，协调算法正在优化工作包的调度，以最大限度地减少脆弱家庭的流离失所时间。这一奖项反映了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。

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.