Research Hub for Decarbonised Adaptable and Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe)

我们的愿景是在系统分析的指导下，实现气候适应性强、净零发展的运输系统。当这一愿景实现时，决策者将能够获得(并可视化)数据，告诉他们现在和未来交通运输相对于弹性、脱碳和其他目标的表现如何。我们将向他们提供系统模型，帮助他们准确定位漏洞并量化故障风险。这将使他们能够对拟议的投资进行假设分析，并对将决定未来交通系统性能的主要不确定性进行压力测试，如人口增长、新材料和技术以及气候变化。我们的目标是提供共同创建的研究，规划可行的路径和解决方案，到2050年提供一个弹性强、净零运输系统，为人们和社区服务。DARE将成为首选枢纽，因为我们将广泛和积极地参与，并向决策者提供证据、指导和工具，使他们能够优先考虑早期干预和投资。。我们的研究方案将采取以系统为主导的运输方法，认识到并应对国家、区域和地方三个不同但相互关联的规模的挑战。它将解决现有和新的运输基础设施的复原力和净零的相互交织的挑战，并为净零过渡可能出现的新的脆弱性确定和提供解决办法，包括与数字和电力基础设施的关键相互依存关系。它将展示重新想象和重新思考我们的交通系统如何为人们以及我们的经济所依赖的商品和服务提供流动性所带来的好处和机会，并将提供关于治理和政策如何能够实现和推动这些变化的洞察。我们在制定我们的研究计划时，与我们在英格兰东北部和西北部、诺森伯兰、剑桥郡和哈特兰以及苏格兰的多个公民合作伙伴以及我们强大的其他合作伙伴进行了磋商。DARE将在此基础上向所有人开放合作伙伴关系，并在前九个月积极参与一项共同创造活动的计划，共同定义场景和故事情节，带领我们应对地方、地区和国家交通基础设施脱碳的双重挑战，同时提高它们在气候变化背景下的弹性和适应性。通过DARE灵活基金，更广泛的研究界的作用和参与将有助于实现这一目标。DARE工作方案包括5个综合工作包(WP)、4个重点研究活动以及1个管理WP。WP1提供共同创建的交通期货故事情节，这些故事情节塑造了枢纽的研究活动，并开发了故事情节，以通过交通-电力-数字关键基础设施之间的系统交互来跨三个空间尺度对解决方案进行压力测试。WP2提供了一个新的、可移植的开源建模框架，它将作为DARE的遗产与更广泛的社区共同开发并提供给更广泛的社区。WP3将讨论基础设施资产的实际影响，以及它们在气候扰动下的表现将如何影响终身管理。WP4将在考虑枢纽的政策、社会经济、行为和土地利用规划方面时，对故事情节的更广泛影响和现实世界影响提供见解。WP0将致力于中心管理、治理和参与。

Our Vision is for climate resilient, net zero development of the transport system to be guided by systems analysis. When this vision is realised, decision-makers will have access to (and visualisation of) data that tells them how transport is performing against resilience, decarbonisation, and other objectives, now and in the future. We will deliver them systems models that will help to pinpoint vulnerabilities and quantify the risks of failure. This will enable them to perform 'what-if' analysis of proposed investments and to stress-test scenarios for the major uncertainties that will determine the performance of future transport systems, such as population growth, new materials and technologies and climate change. Our ambition is to deliver co-created research that plots viable pathways and solutions for delivering a resilient, net-zero transport system that works for people and communities by 2050. DARe will be the go-to Hub because we will engage widely and proactively, and provide the evidence, guidance and tools to decision-makers that will enable them to prioritise early interventions and investments. . Our research programme will take a system-of-systems led approach to transport which recognises and addresses the challenges at the three, distinct but critically interlinked, scales of national, regional and local. It will address the interwoven challenges of resilience and net zero, for both existing and new transport infrastructures, and identify and provide solutions for new vulnerabilities that may occur because of the net zero transition, including critical interdependencies with digital and power infrastructures. It will demonstrate the benefits and opportunities that come from reimagining and rethinking how our transport systems deliver mobility to both people and the goods and services our economy relies on, and will offer insight on how governance and policy can enable and drive these changes.We have shaped our research programme in consultation with our multiple civic partners in North East and North West England, Northumberland, Cambridgeshire & Heartland and Scotland as well as our strong cohort of additional partners. DARe will build on this by opening the partnership to all and proactively engage in a programme of co-creation events during the first nine months to jointly define scenarios and storylines leading us towards addressing the dual challenge of decarbonising our local regional and national transport infrastructures whilst increasing their resilience and adaptability in a context of climate change. The role and participation of the wider research community via the DARe Flexible Fund will be instrumental in delivering this. The DARe work programme comprises five integrated work packages (WPs), four focussed research activities plus a management WP. WP1 delivers the co-created transport futures storylines which shape the research activities of the hub and develops the storylines to stress-test solutions across the three spatial scales, contextualised by the systems-of-systems interactions between transport-power-digital critical infrastructures. WP2 provides a new, transferable open-source modelling framework that will be co-developed with and made available to the wider community as a legacy of DARe. WP3 will address the physical implications for infrastructure assets and how their climate-perturbed performance will impact whole-life management. WP4 will provide insights into the wider implications and real-world impacts of the storylines when considering the policy, socio-economic, behavioural and land use planning aspects of the hub. WP0 will be dedicated to hub management, governance and engagement.