Open KE Fellowship - MEDIATE: Overcoming barriers to MaximisE Data potential for better blue-green-grey InfrAsTructurE

数据支撑着我们的商业和经济，从灯柱到教授，任何人和任何人都可以收集数据。通过在公共和私营部门组织和企业之间共享这些数据集，有可能为英国经济及其公民带来显著的额外社会经济效益。对于收集类似数据集(例如气象数据)并面临类似21世纪挑战和机遇的基础设施所有者和运营商来说尤其如此。这些独立的企业和组织之间更好的知识交流和数据共享可以：改进运营程序；推动新的解决方案；并促进共同应对常见环境问题，如空气质量、极端天气事件或较长期的气候变化。对于限制级联故障和建立整个基础设施系统的弹性而言，跨学科方法也至关重要。例如，电力网络的故障可能会通过停止电气化火车或导致街道或高速公路上的停电来影响交通部门。或者大坝坍塌可能会淹没附近的公路和铁路线。连锁故障在人口密度高、关键基础设施如火车站或变电所的城市地区尤其具有破坏性。考虑蓝色和绿色基础设施对于整个系统方法也是至关重要的。例如，洪水和植被(线路上的树叶、大风后的碎片)往往会对Network Rail等运营商造成干扰；在城市地区，植被通过增加入渗和减少流入城市下水道的径流来帮助雨水管理。树木可以“擦洗”空气，改善空气质量，改善居民的心理健康。尽管基础设施领域的数据共享显然是有利的，但实际上有一系列不同的障碍可以阻止这种情况的发生。本次KE联谊会(中级)将展示智能数据共享可以带来的附加值。它有两个工作计划，有两组不同的非学术合作伙伴，他们出于一系列不同的原因没有最大限度地发挥现有数据集的潜力。克服共享其数据集的障碍将产生如下概述的社会经济效益。工作计划一侧重于绿色和蓝色基础设施，并将促进创建科学证据基地和新网络，以支持伯明翰市议会的自然健康改善区。Mediate将启动证据库的开发，并建立一个网络来长期维护它。这将在当地范围产生影响：提供必要的证据基础，为蓝绿色规划提供信息，最终改善空气质量和公民健康；并在国家和国际范围内，通过提供如何评估蓝绿色改善计划的案例研究，产生影响。工作计划2侧重于灰色基础设施，并将促进基础设施提供商和研究界之间的跨学科数据共享。调解意愿：使用与Network Rail(NR)的试点研究来探索和克服数据共享的障碍，然后利用这一知识将研究扩展到整个基础设施部门。这将在地方范围内产生影响：改善气象/气候学决策的NR证据基础；在国家和国际范围内，通过清楚地向NERC阐明数据差距，并改进部门范围的证据基础，以促进对天气和气候复原力的整个系统方法。该中介项目将帮助ERII社区以及更广泛的基础设施行业的企业和组织最大限度地发挥其数据集的潜力，为英国经济创造大量财富，并为英国公民带来无价的社会效益。

Data underpins our business and economy and can be collected by everything and everyone from lampposts to professors. By sharing these datasets between public and private sector organisations and businesses it is possible to generate significant extra socio-economic benefits for the UK economy and its citizens. This is particularly true for infrastructure owners and operators who collect similar datasets (e.g. meteorological data) and face similar 21st Century challenges and opportunities. Better knowledge exchange and data-sharing between these separate businesses and organisations can: improve operational procedures; drive new solutions; and foster joined up response to common environmental problems such as air quality, extreme weather events or longer-term climatic change. A cross-disciplinary approach is also crucial to limit cascade failures and build resilience across the infrastructure system as a whole. For example, a failure in the electricity network could impact the transport sector by stopping electrified trains or causing black-outs along streets or motorway. Or a dam failure could flood the nearby road and railway line. Cascade failures are particularly disruptive in urban areas which have a high population density and critical infrastructure like railway stations or energy substations. Considering blue and green infrastructure is also vital for whole systems approach. For example, flooding and vegetation (leaves on the line, debris following high winds) often cause disruption for operators such as Network Rail; in urban areas vegetation aids storm water management by increasing infiltration and reducing run-off into urban sewers. Trees can 'scrub' the atmosphere and improve air quality and psychological well-being for inhabitants.Although data-sharing across the infrastructure sector is clearly advantageous, in practice a range of different barriers can stop this from happening. This KE Fellowship (MEDIATE) will demonstrate the added value that intelligent data-sharing can bring. It has two work programs with two different groups of non-academic partners who are not maximising the potential of their existing datasets for a range of different reasons. Overcoming the barriers to sharing their datasets will generate socio-economic benefits as outlined below. Work Program One focuses on green and blue infrastructure and will facilitate the creation of a scientific evidence base and new network to support Birmingham City Council's Natural Health Improvement Zones. MEDIATE will initiate the development of the evidence base, and set-up a network to maintain it long-term. This will have impact at local-scale by: providing the evidence base necessary to inform blue-green planning, ultimately to improve air quality and citizen health; and, at national and international scales by providing a case study of how to evaluate blue-green improvement schemes.Work Program Two focuses on the grey infrastructure and will facilitate cross-disciplinary data-sharing between infrastructure providers and the research community. MEDIATE will: use a pilot study with Network Rail (NR) to explore and overcome barriers to data-sharing then use this knowledge to expand the study across the infrastructure sector. This will have impact at local-scale by: improving the NR evidence base for meteorological/climatological decision-making; and at national and international scales by clearly articulating data gaps to NERC, and improving the sector-wide evidence base to facilitate a whole systems approach to weather and climate resilience.There is no better time to facilitate data sharing; 90% of the world's data has been generated in the last two years. The MEDIATE project will help business and organisations in the ERII community and more widely across the infrastructure sector to maximise the potential of their datasets to generate significant wealth for the UK economy and invaluable social benefits for its citizens.