Virtual decision rooms for water neutral urban planning (VENTURA)

水中和城市规划的虚拟决策室 (VENTURA)

• 批准号: EP/V042084/1
• 负责人: Ana Mijic
• 金额: $ 103.16万
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FV042084%2F1
• 关键词: Virtual; decision; rooms; water; neutral

VENTURA is a digital service based on interdisciplinary systems approaches to infrastructure that allows end-users to explore housing and water system planning options through a virtual participatory process supported by state-of-the-art process-driven models. The research involves co-creating a web-based and end-user led prototype called a virtual decision room (VDR) to help movements towards a sustainable digital society. The VDR will be co-created with local government, the local community, regulators and water utility companies ('end-users') to collaboratively plan and evaluate the environmental sustainability of urban growth planning scenarios using co-designed water neutrality indicators during the project. The VDR will use a whole-water system Digital Twin (FuturaWat) that supports evidence-led water neutral planning for place making. This will be achieved by integrating two state-of-art digital tools: GIS-based ground risk calculator (GRISC) and whole-water system model (CityWat) with a participatory process to facilitate end-user discussion and decision-making on housing and water system planning scenarios. The key novelty of the proposed research is in applying systems approaches to infrastructure planning, collaborative working and sustainability evaluation.The VDR will be tested by applying it to Greater Manchester and London Borough of Enfield case study examples to enable end-users to align their strategic planning and water management priorities. The VENTURA concept was co-developed with our project partners, who have helped us formulate Greater Manchester (GM) and London Borough of Enfield (LBE) case examples. In GM the work will directly support the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) 'levelling up' strategies and help them to holistically address 'challenges to delivery when considering wider issues such as flood risk, brownfield land remediation, environmental degradation and wider resilience to climate change'. The LBE case example will support Enfield Council in their transition to a digital platform that will enable correlation of infrastructure needs with investment opportunities and help them to more effectively engage with local communities and discuss local plans, which currently do not include water demand and water quality evaluation because of lack of evidence. Both case examples will explicitly account for community perspectives through collaborations with partner local NGOs: Thames21 (LBE) and The Mersey Rivers Trust (GM).VENTURA directly addresses the current UK Government's high-profile strategic initiatives including 'Planning for the future' White Paper and the National Digital Twin Programme. In particular, VENTURA provides a proof-of-concept for the White Paper's highly ambitious proposals that seek to reduce the duration of the planning cycle significantly, supporting net gains in the quality of the environment and front-loading public engagement in the planning system to the plan-making stage of place-making. The research will adapt traditional working practices to help the work become more sustainable. This will be formalised through the development of a sustainability policy for the research and will include initiatives such as monitoring and managing environmental performance by embedding into project management, reporting progress and sharing good practice with other EPSRC projects.

VENTURA是一项基于跨学科系统方法的数字服务，允许最终用户通过最先进的流程驱动模型支持的虚拟参与式流程探索住房和供水系统规划方案。该研究涉及共同创建一个基于网络和最终用户主导的原型，称为虚拟决策室（VDR），以帮助实现可持续的数字社会。VDR将与当地政府、当地社区、监管机构和水务公司（“最终用户”）共同创建，以在项目期间使用共同设计的水中和指标，共同规划和评估城市增长规划情景的环境可持续性。VDR将使用全水系统数字孪生（FuturaWat），支持以证据为导向的水中性规划。这将通过整合两个最先进的数字化工具来实现：基于地理信息系统的地面风险计算器（GRISC）和整个水系统模型（CityWat），并通过参与性进程促进最终用户就住房和水系统规划方案进行讨论和决策。拟议研究的主要新奇在于将系统方法应用于基础设施规划、协作工作和可持续性评估。VDR将通过将其应用于大曼彻斯特和伦敦自治市的恩菲尔德案例研究实例进行测试，以使最终用户能够调整其战略规划和水管理优先事项。VENTURA概念是与我们的项目合作伙伴共同开发的，他们帮助我们制定了大曼彻斯特（GM）和伦敦恩菲尔德自治市（LBE）的案例。在全球机制，这项工作将直接支持大曼彻斯特联合管理局（GMCA）“升级”战略，并帮助他们全面解决“在考虑洪水风险、布朗菲尔德土地整治、环境退化和更广泛的气候变化适应能力等更广泛问题时面临的交付挑战”。LBE案例将支持恩菲尔德理事会向数字平台的过渡，该平台将使基础设施需求与投资机会相关联，并帮助他们更有效地与当地社区接触并讨论当地计划，目前由于缺乏证据，这些计划不包括水需求和水质评估。这两个案例都将通过与当地非政府组织Thames21（LBE）和The Mersey Rivers Trust（GM）的合作明确说明社区的观点。Ventura直接解决了当前英国政府的高调战略举措，包括“规划未来”白色文件和国家数字孪生计划。特别是，VENTURA为白色文件中雄心勃勃的建议提供了概念验证，这些建议旨在大幅缩短规划周期的持续时间，支持环境质量的净收益，并将规划系统中的公众参与提前到地方制定的规划制定阶段。这项研究将调整传统的工作实践，以帮助工作变得更具可持续性。这将通过为研究制定可持续发展政策来正式化，并将包括通过嵌入项目管理，报告进展以及与其他EPSRC项目分享良好实践来监测和管理环境绩效等举措。