Metrocare: Strategic decision-making for integrated urban infrastructure

世界各地的城市在应对社会和经济变化和挑战的同时，面临着实现大规模有形基础设施发展的长期战略挑战。在有效率和有效地执行这些重大方案时，必须彻底评估投资决定，并适当地了解其影响。这些决定不仅需要在具体发展地区的背景下做出，而且需要在更广泛的城市的背景下做出，而且是长期的。决策者需要考虑不断变化的人口、政治、经济和可持续发展驱动因素、技术进步等高层次因素。他们需要了解并应对对现有基础设施和服务、环境和经济以及社会影响的影响，如居民、工人和游客的健康和福祉。目前，这些“城市系统”往往是孤立的，其结果是，投资决策可能没有认识到，城市的规模超过了各个部分的总和，这可能会导致基础设施建设出现错误，可能需要数十年时间才能纠正。MetroCare解决方案解决了这些挑战。它包括基于信通技术的交互式城市发展情景创建和可视化能力，该能力与主要的城市系统模型和支持数据集进行互操作，这些数据集具体用于部署的地点和背景。MetroCare将使城市决策者和利益相关者能够定义和评估可选的投资方案，作为基础设施发展项目规划/审批过程的一部分。可以创建初始场景，为互操作模型提供输入参数和输出要求，进而创建更丰富的场景，使决策者能够更好地了解战略规划决策对城市地区长期整体“绩效”的影响。MetroCare已准备好作为迭代基础设施投资方案创建和评估流程的一部分进行部署。迄今开展的工作表明，全球对这种解决方案有需求；它广泛适用于所有城市和地区，因为它们适应经济、环境和社会变化的新需求。然而，需要开展工作来制定商业模式(成本、市场增长、与城市系统和数据的一致性、编码、技能/培训等)，以开发商业版本，以便在许多城市环境中以及价值链不同部分的组织容易地进行调整和部署。该项目将由英国中小企业单位9领导，他们将提供互动场景创建能力(建立在由英国资助的Innovate‘BIMCity’项目的基础上)。剑桥大学、斯堪斯卡和BRE将提供城市系统模型(例如，土地使用、交通、能源、建筑存量、水、环境和经济以及健康、教育、犯罪和社区福祉)。用例将由城市利益相关者提供(例如，哈林盖市议会、GLA和剑桥县议会，以规划的开发为基础，提供强烈的背景重点)。如果资金申请成功，其他利益攸关方，如基础设施/公用事业业主和管理人员，可能会被邀请参加。

Cities throughout the world face long term strategic challenges in delivering large scale physical infrastructure development whilst addressing social and economic changes and challenges. In delivering such major programmes efficiently and effectively it is essential that investment decisions are thoroughly assessed and their impacts properly understood. These decisions need to be taken not only in the context of the specific development area but also that of the wider city, and over the long term. Decision makers need to take account of high-level factors such as changing demographics, political, economic and sustainability drivers, advances in technology etc. They need to understand and react to impacts on existing infrastructure and services, the environment and economy as well as social impacts such as health and wellbeing of residents, workers and visitors. Currently these ‘city systems’ are often siloed and, as a consequence, investment decisions can fail to recognise that the city is more than the sum of its parts, potentially leading to errors in infrastructure development that can take decades to correct. The Metrocare solution addresses these challenges. It comprises of an ICT-based, interactive urban development scenario creation and visualisation capability which interoperates with leading urban system models and supporting datasets that are specific to the location and context of the deployment. Metrocare will enable city decision makers and stakeholders to define and assess optional investment scenarios as part of the planning/approvals process for infrastructure development projects. Initial scenarios can be created, providing input parameters and output requirements for interoperating models that, in turn, create richer scenarios allowing decision makers to better understand the impact of strategic planning decisions on the overall ‘performance’ of city districts in the long term. Metrocare is ready to deploy as part of an iterative infrastructure investment scenario creation and assessment process. Work carried out to date indicates that there is a global demand for such a solution; it is widely applicable to all cities and regions as they adapt to the emerging needs of the economy, the environment and changes in society. However, work is needed to develop business models (cost, market growth, alignment with city systems and data, codification, skills/training etc) for the development of a commercial version that can readily be adapted and deployed widely in many urban environments and by organisations in different parts of the value chain. The project will be led by UK SME Unit9 who will provide the interactive scenario creation capability (building on the Innovate UK-funded ‘BIMCity’ project). Cambridge University, Skanska and BRE will provide city system models (e.g. land use, transport, energy, building stock, water, environment and economy as well as health, education, crime and community wellbeing). Use cases will be provided by city stakeholders (e.g. Haringey Council, the GLA and Cambridge County Council, providing a strong contextual focus based around planned developments). Other stakeholders, such as infrastructure/utilities owners and managers, may be invited to participate if the application for funding is successful.