Integrated Urban Infrastructure Systems

由于城市对地球的影响及其对我们社会的价值，城市的可持续性和弹性受到国家和全球的关注。城市和城市基础设施系统的可持续性和弹性的理解、规划和设计充满了挑战。其中包括如何规划有效和高效的全系统回收，以及如何执行基础设施系统，使其对当地和全球资源和废物吸收限制敏感。******建议的研究重点是当代城市基础设施系统的基础设施组成部分，基础设施系统和城市规模，使用各种建模和案例研究技术。在未来五年内，基础设施系统的核心研究问题是：(1)弹性和可持续性决策如何相互影响？(2)如何在更广泛的系统中评估个人系统的影响？(3)如何确定全系统的弹性处理方法？(4)城市之间可以相互借鉴哪些基础设施弹性经验？这些问题通过四项由四名本科生，两名硕士生和两名博士生进行的研究来检验。******这些研究(1)提供了复原力和可持续性处理之间关系的详细描述；(2)展示利益相关者的系统如何相互影响以及更广泛的城市系统；(3)提供先进的方法来定位基础设施系统的新型弹性处理；(4)对城市进行比较弹性评估，以确定有助于和阻碍城市基础设施系统恢复的常见和不同做法。此外，该计划维护和建立加拿大在土木工程和运筹学交叉的关键领域的形象，特别是随着城市继续成为全球关注的问题。

The sustainability and resiliency of cities is of national and global concern due to their impact on the planet and their value to our society. Understanding, planning and designing for sustainability and resiliency of cities and urban infrastructure systems is fraught with challenges. These include how to plan for effective and efficient system-wide recovery and how to implement infrastructure systems such that they are sensitive to local and global resource and waste absorption constraints.******The proposed research focuses on contemporary urban infrastructure systems at the infrastructure component, infrastructure systems and city scales using a variety of modeling and case study techniques. During the next five years the core infrastructure systems research questions are: (1) How do resilience and sustainability decisions impact one another? (2) How can the impacts of individuals' systems be valued in a broader system? (3) How can we determine system-wide resilience treatments? And (4) what infrastructure resiliency lessons can cities learn from one another? These questions are examined through four studies conducted by four undergraduate students, two master's students and two doctoral students.******These studies (1) provide detailed delineations of the relationship between resilience and sustainability treatments; (2) demonstrate how stakeholder's systems impact one another and the broader urban system; (3) deliver advanced means to locate novel resilience treatments for infrastructure systems; and (4) produce comparative resilience assessments of cities to identify common and differing practices that aid and hinder recovery of urban infrastructure systems. In addition, this program maintains and builds Canada's profile in this critical field at the intersection of civil engineering and operations research, especially as cities continue to mount as global issue of concern.