Workshop: Funding, Financing and Emerging Technologies in Infrastructure; New York, New York, December 2021; and London, England, Summer 2022

该奖项支持一系列研讨会，这些研讨会将汇集来自基础设施经济、金融、社会、技术和工程方面的专家，探讨多学科方法如何解决基础设施交付中普遍存在的严重财务和政策挑战。讲习班将根据国内和国际案例研究的经验教训，审查基础设施筹资和筹资的创新办法。为此，与会者将努力促进和整合三个主要分领域的科学认识：(1)基础设施筹资和筹资的机制和评价指标；(2)这些筹资和筹资机制所涉及的社会公平问题；(3)在基础设施开发、建设、运营和维护方面促进和支持公私伙伴关系的新兴技术。研讨会将促进美国和英国之间的合作和持续互动，并为学生提供一个论坛，让他们参与并与具有强大国内和国际声誉的参与者建立联系，建立基础设施规划和政策方面的新一代专家渠道。研讨会将由来自英国和美国的研究团队组织。在美国方面，康奈尔大学基础设施政策项目(CPIP)将是研讨会组织的重点。CPIP将与纽约康奈尔技术学院雅各布斯技术学院的城市技术中心合作。在英国方面，研讨会由剑桥大学智能基础设施与建设中心(CSIC)组织。研讨会参与者将制定一份研究议程，其中包含改造基础设施的愿景和专业知识。它将为公共和私人投资以及采用新的和经过验证的技术以改善基础设施提供建立一个智力基础。研讨会将讨论的关键问题的例子是：(1)公私伙伴关系如何分担金融风险，以及在这种共同风险的背景下，哪些类型的筹资机制更具弹性？(2)推动广泛参与公私伙伴关系的关键因素是什么，如何设计筹资机制以确保不把弱势社区排除在外？(3)如何明智地设计替代交付模式和方法，如公私伙伴关系、价值获取和资产回收，同时考虑到对确保普及接入、复原力和新兴的变革性基础设施技术的日益重视？其结果将是在未来几年指导和维持有影响力的研究，为更多的跨国家、跨学科和跨部门的研究和基础设施实施奠定基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a series of workshops that will assemble experts from infrastructure’s economic, financial, social, technology and engineering dimensions to explore how a multi-disciplinary approach can address serious financial and policy challenges endemic to infrastructure delivery. The Workshops will review innovative approaches to the funding and financing of infrastructure based on lessons from both domestic and international case studies. To this end, participants will strive to advance and integrate scientific understanding in three main subareas: (i) mechanisms and evaluation metrics toward the funding and financing of infrastructure; (ii) the social equity aspects of those funding and financing mechanisms; (iii) emerging technologies that facilitate and support public-private partnerships in infrastructure development, construction, operation and maintenance. The workshops will facilitate collaboration and continuing interaction between the US and UK, and also create a forum for students to participate and establish contacts with participants having strong national and international reputations, building a pipeline of next-generation experts in infrastructure planning and policy.The workshops will be organized by research teams from the UK and US. On the US side, the Cornell University Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP) will be the focal point of workshop organization. CPIP will partner with the Urban Tech Hub at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, on the Cornell Tech campus in New York City. On the UK side, the workshop is organized by the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) based at the University of Cambridge. The workshop participants will generate a research agenda with the vision and expertise to transform infrastructure. It will establish an intellectual basis for public and private investments as well as the adoption of new and proven technologies to improve infrastructure delivery. Example of the key questions to be discussed at the workshop are (1) How are financial risks shared in public-private partnerships and what types of funding mechanisms are more resilient in that shared-risk context? (2) What are key factors driving widespread participation in public-private partnerships, and how can funding mechanisms be designed to ensure that disadvantaged communities are not left out? (3) How can alternative delivery models and approaches, such as public-private partnerships, value capture, and asset recycling, be wisely designed while considering the increased attention on ensuring universal access, resilience, and emerging transformational infrastructure technologies? The result will be to guide and sustain impactful research for years to come, setting the stage for greater cross-country, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral research and infrastructure implementation.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.