A systems approach to managing the Urban Infrastructure Grid

本次研讨会的目的是召集来自公用事业、私营行业、学术界、非营利组织和联邦交通、环境和公共卫生部门的多学科专家，系统地解决城市基础设施电网子系统之间的互连问题，并确定级联灾难性故障的潜在途径及其对电网以外的影响。该小组将制定一个基于系统的框架的愿景和路线图，该框架可以支持城市基础设施网格的标准化和综合监测、分析、控制和管理，并概述应用案例研究。该研讨会旨在促进对城市基础设施系统复杂性的更清晰理解，并制定可持续管理的愿景和路线图，以改善环境可持续性和人类健康一系列传播战略将继续在社区中进行对话，寻求激发参与潜在案例研究的兴趣，并为全球利益相关者提供可扩展的可操作信息。两个研讨会相关的会议将围绕这一主题组织：第一次在2019年12月的美国地球物理联盟（AGU）年会上;第二次在美国水资源协会的2020年春季专业研讨会上，题为AWRA地理空间水技术研讨会：复杂系统。向大卫梅德门特致敬。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The objective of this workshop is to convene multi-disciplinary experts from utilities, private industry, academia, non-profits, and federal transportation, environmental and public health authorities to systematically address the interconnections between sub-systems of the Urban Infrastructure Grid and to identify potential pathways for cascading catastrophic failures and their impacts beyond the Grid. The group will develop a vision and roadmap towards a systems-based framework that can support standardized and integrated monitoring, analysis, control and management of the Urban Infrastructure Grid, and outline application case studies.The workshop is targeted to advance a clearer understanding of the complexity of urban infrastructure systems and develop a vision and a roadmap towards their sustainable management for improved environmental sustainability and human health. A spectrum of dissemination strategies will continue the conversation in the community, seeking to excite interest in participation in potential case studies, and produce scalable, actionable information for stakeholders globally. Two workshop-related sessions will be organized around this topic: the first at the Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in December of 2019; and the second at the American Water Resources Association's 2020 Spring Specialty Workshop titled AWRA Geospatial Water Technology Workshop: Complex systems. Tribute to David Maidment. The results will be published in the AWRA Impact magazine.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.