BE MUSES:Decision Support for Urban Development: Air Quality, Social Justice, Material, and Energy and the Impact of Social Decision Making

BE/MUS：对城市发展的决策支持：空气质量、社会正义、材料和能源以及社会决策的影响。这项BE/MUS规划赠款的重点将是创建一个集成空气污染模型、物质和能量流动分析以及城市发展模型的原型工具。最终结果是为城市系统的环境管理开发决策支持工具。这些工具预计将鼓励规划者选择更多的可再生资源，减少废物产生，最终目标是在快速城市化期间减少建成环境对环境的影响。这项研究旨在利用城市新陈代谢指标和可视化工具探索城市漏斗的概念，同时校准和验证UrbanSim模型，该模型通过模拟社会决策、土地开发和交通活动的相互作用来预测城市增长。其目标也是预测主要空气污染物的时空分布，以及可持续发展指标，如用水量和固体废物产生。与一个与大凤凰城市政当局合作的区域规划机构将对开发的模型进行评估。更广泛的影响包括对研究生和本科生的教育，以及对凤凰城地区的K-12学生和教师、普通公众和城市规划者的宣传。该计划奖由SES/SBE的Robert O‘Connor和BES/ENG的Tom Waite共同管理。

BE/MUSES: Decision-support for Urban Development: Air Quality, social Justice, Material and energy and the Impact of Social Decision-making.The focus of this BE/MUSES planning grant will be to create a prototype tool that integrates air pollution models, material and energy flow analyses, and an urban development model. The ultimate outcome is aimed at developing decision support tools for environmental management of urban systems. Such tools are expected to encourage planners to choose more renewable resources and reduce waste generation, with the ultimate goal of reducing the environmental impacts of the built environment during rapid urbanization. The research is to explore the urban funnel concept with urban metabolism metrics and visualization tools, while calibrating and validating UrbanSim, a model that predicts urban growth by simulating the interaction of social-decision-making, land development and transportation activities. The goal is also to predict spatial and temporal distribution of major air pollutants, as well as sustainability metrics such as water usage and solid waste generation. Collaboration with a regional planning agency that works with Greater Phoenix municipalities will provide assessment of the models developed. Broader impacts include education for graduate and undergraduate students as well as outreach to K-12 students and teachers, the general public, and urban planners in the Phoenix area. This planning award is co-managed by Robert O'Connor in SES / SBE and Tom Waite in BES / ENG.