International Centre for Infrastructure Futures (ICIF)

国际基础设施期货中心 (ICIF)

• 批准号: EP/K012347/1
• 负责人: Brian Collins
• 金额: $ 438.91万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FK012347%2F1
• 关键词: International; Centre; Infrastructure; Futures; ICIF

Compared to many parts of the world, the UK has under-invested in its infrastructure in recent decades. It now faces many challenges in upgrading its infrastructure so that it is appropriate for the social, economic and environmental challenges it will face in the remainder of the 21st century. A key challenge involves taking into account the ways in which infrastructure systems in one sector increasingly rely on other infrastructure systems in other sectors in order to operate. These interdependencies mean failures in one system can cause follow-on failures in other systems. For example, failures in the water system might knock out electricity supplies, which disrupt communications, and therefore transportation, which prevent engineers getting to the original problem in the water infrastructure. These problems now generate major economic and social costs. Unfortunately they are difficult to manage because the UK infrastructure system has historically been built, and is currently operated and managed, around individual infrastructure sectors. Because many privatised utilities have focused on operating infrastructure assets, they have limited experience in producing new ones or of understanding these interdependencies. Many of the old national R&D laboratories have been shut down and there is a lack of capability in the UK to procure and deliver the modern infrastructure the UK requires. On the one hand, this makes innovation risky. On the other hand, it creates significant commercial opportunities for firms that can improve their understanding of infrastructure interdependencies and speed up how they develop and test their new business models. This learning is difficult because infrastructure innovation is undertaken in complex networks of firms, rather than in an individual firm, and typically has to address a wide range of stakeholders, regulators, customers, users and suppliers. Currently, the UK lacks a shared learning environment where these different actors can come together and explore the strengths and weaknesses of different options. This makes innovation more difficult and costly, as firms are forced to 'learn by doing' and find it difficult to anticipate technical, economic, legal and societal constraints on their activity before they embark on costly development projects.The Centre will create a shared, facilitated learning environment in which social scientists, engineers, industrialists, policy makers and other stakeholders can research and learn together to understand how better to exploit the technical and market opportunities that emerge from the increased interdependence of infrastructure systems. The Centre will focus on the development and implementation of innovative business models and aims to support UK firms wishing to exploit them in international markets. The Centre will undertake a wide range of research activities on infrastructure interdependencies with users, which will allow problems to be discovered and addressed earlier and at lower cost. Because infrastructure innovations alter the social distribution of risks and rewards, the public needs to be involved in decision making to ensure business models and forms of regulation are socially robust. As a consequence, the Centre has a major focus on using its research to catalyse a broader national debate about the future of the UK's infrastructure, and how it might contribute towards a more sustainable, economically vibrant, and fair society.Beneficiaries from the Centre's activities include existing utility businesses, entrepreneurs wishing to enter the infrastructure sector, regulators, government and, perhaps most importantly, our communities who will benefit from more efficient and less vulnerable infrastructure based services.

与世界许多地区相比，英国近几十年来在基础设施方面投资不足。它现在面临着许多挑战，要升级其基础设施，以便适合它在21世纪剩余时间将面临的社会、经济和环境挑战。一项关键挑战涉及考虑到一个部门的基础设施系统越来越依赖其他部门的其他基础设施系统以便运作的方式。这些相互依赖意味着一个系统中的故障可能会导致其他系统中的后续故障。例如，供水系统的故障可能会破坏电力供应，从而扰乱通信，从而扰乱交通，从而阻止工程师解决水利基础设施的原始问题。这些问题现在产生了重大的经济和社会代价。不幸的是，它们很难管理，因为英国的基础设施体系历来是围绕个别基础设施部门建立的，目前是围绕着各个基础设施部门运营和管理的。由于许多私有化的公用事业公司专注于运营基础设施资产，它们在生产新资产或理解这些相互依赖方面的经验有限。许多老的国家研发实验室已经关闭，英国缺乏采购和提供英国所需的现代基础设施的能力。一方面，这使得创新具有风险。另一方面，它为公司创造了重要的商业机会，这些公司可以提高他们对基础设施相互依赖的理解，并加快他们开发和测试新业务模式的方式。这种学习很困难，因为基础设施创新是在复杂的公司网络中进行的，而不是在单个公司中进行的，而且通常必须涉及广泛的利益相关者、监管机构、客户、用户和供应商。目前，英国缺乏一个共享的学习环境，这些不同的参与者可以聚集在一起，探索不同选择的优缺点。这使得创新变得更加困难和昂贵，因为企业被迫从实践中学习，在开始昂贵的开发项目之前，很难预测其活动受到的技术、经济、法律和社会限制。该中心将创造一个共享的、便利的学习环境，社会科学家、工程师、工业家、政策制定者和其他利益攸关方可以在其中共同研究和学习，以了解如何更好地利用基础设施系统日益相互依赖所产生的技术和市场机会。该中心将专注于开发和实施创新的商业模式，旨在支持希望在国际市场上利用这些模式的英国公司。该中心将就基础设施与用户的相互依存关系开展广泛的研究活动，从而能够以较低的成本更早地发现和解决问题。由于基础设施创新改变了风险和回报的社会分布，公众需要参与决策，以确保商业模式和监管形式在社会上是稳健的。因此，该中心的主要重点是利用其研究来推动一场更广泛的全国性辩论，讨论英国基础设施的未来，以及它如何为更可持续、更具经济活力和更公平的社会做出贡献。该中心活动的受益者包括现有的公用事业企业、希望进入基础设施领域的企业家、监管机构、政府，或许最重要的是，我们的社区将受益于更高效、更不脆弱的基础设施服务。

项目成果

Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 19th Annual Conference, TAROS 2018, Bristol, UK July 25-27, 2018, Proceedings

迈向自主机器人系统 - 第 19 届年会，TAROS 2018，英国布里斯托尔，2018 年 7 月 25-27 日，会议记录

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96728-8_29
• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: West A

Smart Technology Applications in Business Environments -

商业环境中的智能技术应用 -

• DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2492-2.ch003
• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Abioye A

Effects of Varying Noise Levels and Lighting Levels on Multimodal Speech and Visual Gesture Interaction with Aerobots

不同的噪声水平和照明水平对飞行机器人多模态语音和视觉手势交互的影响

• DOI: 10.3390/app9102066
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Applied Sciences
• 作者: Abioye A

Evaluation of Retrofit Approaches for Two Social Housing Tower Blocks in Portsmouth, UK

英国朴次茅斯两座社会住房塔楼改造方法评估

• DOI: 10.5334/fce.8
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Future Cities and Environment
• 作者: Aragon V

Quantifying the effects of varying light-visibility and noise-sound levels in practical multimodal speech and visual gesture (mSVG) interaction with aerobots

量化实际多模态语音和视觉手势 (mSVG) 与飞行机器人交互中不同光可见度和噪声声音水平的影响

• DOI: 10.1109/icasi.2018.8394395
• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Abioye A