Workshop: Performance-Based Infrastructure Asset Management (PBIAM); Istanbul, Turkey; July 7-9, 2008

这笔赠款为美国参与者提供资金，以参加2008年7月7日至9日在土耳其伊斯坦布尔举行的为期3天的国际研讨会，以剖析基于性能的基础设施资产管理（PBIAM）的范例。研讨会由美国联邦公路管理局（FHWA）共同主办。土耳其、欧洲联盟委员会、加拿大和日本机构已承诺提供部分支助。 虽然人们广泛认识到，基础设施是多领域和多学科的系统与人类，自然和工程的元素，目前有很少的认识和没有共识，如何创新的范例和概念需要整合和杠杆作用，以推进工程和管理的基础设施一般和运输基础设施，特别是。研讨会的主要学术价值将是汇集迄今为止仍然分开的专家和利益攸关方，以便通过利用公路和桥梁进行现实的案例研究，开始弥合这一差距。公路运输基础设施及其与其他运输方式和其他基础设施的联系和相互依存关系将作为本案例研究的杠杆。土耳其位于欧洲和亚洲的十字路口，伊斯坦布尔连接亚洲和欧洲的公路基础设施将成为讨论的绝佳背景。研讨会的具体目标包括：（1）将来自政府、企业和工业界的多学科工程师和科学家聚集在一起，讨论如何整合和利用创新范例和概念来推进基础设施的工程和管理，特别是公路运输基础设施。讲习班将探讨资产管理、基于性能的工程、多灾害风险、多领域系统识别、应用系统分析、健康监测和智能系统等概念和范例之间的相互关系和协同作用，以及相互依存、复原力和可持续性。(2)构建公路交通基础设施PBIAM本体，以帮助克服阻碍有效整合和利用具有创新基础设施工程和管理潜力的概念和范式的碎片化。本体论已被利用作为一种机制，用于创建一个社区，共享类似的世界观，讲同一种语言，以促进高度复杂的新兴研究领域，面临整合的挑战。太空、国防、人工智能、IT都是例子。 (3)制定PBIAM国际合作研究议程。该议程将包括深入了解和分享欧洲、远东和北美关于PBIAM的最新经验和进展。它还将使人们了解世界不同地区的不同社会和文化机构以及相关人类系统如何影响PBIAM的应用。迄今为止，还没有一个国家或地区发现最佳和最有效的框架，以有效、安全、可持续和安全地运营和维护其基础设施。创新之路必须经过全球性、协调性、多领域、多学科的研究。本次研讨会是以这种方式构思的，本体论和PBIAM研究议程将通过与FHWA网站链接的网站广泛传播，以促进美国各地交通基础设施管理人员采用PBIAM原则。为便利历来代表性不足群体的专家参加这些讲习班，将采用若干战略。首先，来自传统上代表性不足的群体的主要土木工程教师和从业人员将由研讨会组委会直接联系，并邀请参加研讨会。为了帮助合格的教师和高级研究生的识别，费城路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划，这是设在德雷克塞尔大学将被利用。为了帮助从代表性不足的群体中识别从业人员，将与服务于代表性不足的群体的专业协会的教师和国家领导人联系，并要求他们提名合格的参与者。

This grant provides funding for US participants to attend a 3-Day international workshop in Istanbul, Turkey during July 7-9, 2008, to dissect the paradigm of Performance-Based Infrastructure Asset Management (PBIAM). The workshop is co-sponsored by the US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Partial support has been promised by Turkish, European Commission, Canadian and Japanese agencies. While it is broadly recognized that infrastructures are multi-domain and multi-disciplinary systems with human, natural and engineered elements, there is currently little awareness and no consensus regarding how innovative paradigms and concepts need to be integrated and leveraged to advance the engineering and management of infrastructures in general and transportation infrastructures in particular. The principal intellectual merit of the workshop will be to bring experts and stakeholders that have so far remained apart, in order to start bridging this gap by leveraging highways and bridges for a realistic case study. The highway transportation infrastructure, its linkages and interdependencies to other modes of transportation and other infrastructures will be leveraged as this case study. Turkey is at the cross-roads between Europe and Asia, and the highway infrastructure connecting Asia and Europe at Istanbul will serve as an excellent backdrop for the discussions. Specific objectives of the workshop include: (1) To bring a multi-disciplinary group of engineers and scientists from academe, government and industry together for discussing how innovative paradigms and concepts may be integrated and leveraged to advance the engineering and management of infrastructures in general, and highway transportation infrastructure in particular. The workshop will explore the inter-relations and synergies between the concepts and paradigms of asset management, performance-based engineering, multihazards risks, multi-domain systems identification, applied systems analysis, health monitoring and intelligent systems in addition to interdependence, resilience and sustainability. (2) To construct Ontology of PBIAM of highway transportation infrastructure to help overcome the fragmentation that is obstructing effective integration and leveraging of concepts and paradigms with potential to innovate engineering and management of infrastructures. Ontology has been leveraged as a mechanism for creating a community sharing a similar worldview and speaking the same language in order to foster highly complex emerging fields of study that face integration challenges. Space, defense, AI, IT are examples. (3) To develop an International Collaborative Research Agenda on PBIAM. This Agenda will incorporate an in-depth understanding and sharing of recent experiences and advances on PBIAM in Europe, the Far East and North America. It will also permit an understanding of how different social and cultural institutions and related human systems in different regions of the world impact PBIAM applications.No one country or region has yet discovered the best and most effective framework for efficient, safe, sustainable and secure operation and preservation of their infrastructures. The path to innovation has to go through global, coordinated, multi-domain, and multi-disciplinary research. This workshop was conceived in this manner and the Ontology and PBIAM Research Agenda will be broadly disseminated through a web site linked to FHWA's site to promote the adoption of PBIAM principles by transportation infrastructure stewards throughout the US. To facilitate the participation of experts from traditionally underrepresented groups in these workshops, several strategies will be employed. First, leading civil engineering faculty and practitioners from traditionally underrepresented groups will be directly contacted by the workshop organizing committee and invited to participate in the workshop. To aid in the identification of qualified faculty and advanced graduate students, the Philadelphia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, which is housed at Drexel University will be leveraged. To aid in the identification of practitioners from underrepresented groups, faculty members and national leaders associated with professional societies that serve underrepresented groups, will be contacted and asked to nominate qualified participants.This project is funded by the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation and the Office of International Science and Engineering.