International partnerships for accelerating climate-ready, sustainable, and clean urban transportation

这个多机构和多学科的PIRE使用启发项目将在印度多个城市开发一个集成的耦合基础设施框架，该框架具有很大的潜力，可以扩展我们的设计框架，用于面临类似空气质量问题的南亚和全球城市，并考虑投资清洁交通。该项目将创建一个交通-空气质量耦合基础设施系统（TAQCIS）-一个路线图，以促进城市计划采用清洁交通选择时的知情加速决策。该项目将整合（i）物理科学，用于高分辨率完全耦合的城市化学天气气候模型输出，用于空气质量和清洁交通情景;（ii）交通和人类系统，用于对影响拥堵，空气污染，安全和清洁交通有效性的出行需求管理（TDM）策略的行为反应。（iii）社会科学，以评估清洁交通干预措施的稳健性和弹性;以及（iv）教育，以告知公众，培训培训人员，并教授来自美国和印度的学生和学者。该项目将围绕气候变化和城市可持续性吸引国际合作伙伴，以填补有关城市化、人口增长和车辆交通将如何影响城市的知识空白，特别是在开发清洁交通技术的过程中。它将增强许多面临类似气候变化挑战和城市交通问题（包括严重污染）的全球城市的能力。总体而言，该项目将提高城市社区的复原力和可持续性，有助于根据脆弱性分析和调查确定清洁交通的战略投资，并进行国际学生交流和培训以及博士后辅导。对短期环境惠益的评估和对清洁交通干预措施的更好理解将提高决策者减少城市空气污染急性发作的能力，提高空气质量警报的效力，并使个人能够做出知情的健康相关决定。PIRE团队将通过公共网络研讨会、社交媒体以及在包括社会科学学科在内的多学科会议上发表演讲，与全球观众分享项目最新情况。该项目将培养3名博士。除了在三年期间进行的18次国际学生/学者交流外，还在美国进行了一次学生和一次博士后研究。该项目将通过汇聚城市可持续性研究的透镜，加深对TAQCIS的理解。具体而言，该项目将为印度的多个城市，特别是德里、浦那和布巴内斯瓦尔产生新的知识，并有可能扩展到其他南亚城市和全球城市。该项目的目标是：（一）评估早期采用清洁交通加上分级反应行动计划（GRAP）如何能够减少排放，而不是预测到2040年的停滞趋势;（二）评估人类行为及其对现在和未来清洁交通选择的选择; ㈢在改善公共卫生成果的同时，评估交通选择和清洁交通选择方面的社会不公平现象;以及（iv）确定当前运输耦合基础设施系统（CIS）的弹性，并确定在向清洁运输的新制度过渡中反馈系统的任何变化。最先进的城市天气化学气候建模将评估清洁交通和GRAP干预措施对空气质量的有效性，绘制交通强度和环境脆弱性地图，并进行调查以衡量公众对空气污染和气候变化脆弱性的看法。将开发一个结合社会科学透镜的数学模型，用于分析当前和未来气候变化情景的TAQCIS。该项目将通过使用新颖的“科学门户”来推进教育，这是一个整合跨学科知识和在全球机构之间交流知识的虚拟平台。通过这个以使用为灵感的PIRE项目，位于芝加哥的Discovery Partners Institute将建立中心级的活动，促进城市融合研究和教育的国际合作伙伴关系，并提高意识，多样性和包容性。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。

This multi-institutional and multidisciplinary PIRE use-inspired project will develop an integrated coupled infrastructure framework across multiple cities in India with high potential to scale our design framework for South Asian and global cities facing similar air quality issues and considering a path to investments in clean transportation. This project will create a Transportation-Air Quality Coupled Infrastructure System (TAQCIS) – a roadmap to facilitate informed accelerated decision-making as cities plan to adopt clean transportation options. The project will integrate (i) physical sciences for high-resolution fully coupled urban-chemistry-weather-climate model outputs for air quality and clean transportation scenarios; (ii) transportation and human systems for behavioral reactions to travel demand management (TDM) strategies impacting congestion, air pollution, safety, and effectiveness of clean (electric) transportation; (iii) social sciences to assess robustness and resilience of clean transportation interventions; and (iv) education to inform public, train the trainers, and teach students and scholars from the U.S. and India. The project will engage international partners around climate change and urban sustainability to fill in knowledge gaps about how urbanization, population growth, and vehicular traffic will impact cities, especially as they develop clean transportation technologies. It will empower many global cities that face similar climate change challenges and urban transportation problems, including acute pollution. Overall, this project will enhance the resilience and sustainability of urban communities, contribute to identifying strategic investments in clean transportation based on vulnerability analyses and surveys, and perform international student exchange and training and postdoctoral mentoring. Assessment of short-term environmental benefits and an improved understanding of clean transportation interventions will increase decision makers' ability to reduce acute episodes of air pollution in cities, improve the efficacy of air quality alerts, and empower individuals to make informed health-related decisions. The PIRE team will share project updates with a global audience through public webinars, social media outlets, and presenting in multidisciplinary conferences, including the social sciences discipline. The project will train 3 Ph.D. students and a postdoctoral fellow in the U.S. in addition to 18 international student/scholar exchanges over a three-year period. This project will result in a deeper understanding of TAQCIS through a convergence urban sustainability research lens. Specifically, the project will generate new knowledge for multiple cities in India, specifically for Delhi, Pune, and Bhubaneswar, with the potential to scale to other South Asian cities and global cities. The objectives of the project are: (i) assess how early adoption of clean transportation coupled with a graded response action plan (GRAP) can reduce emissions as compared to projected stagnant trends until 2040; (ii) assess human behavior and their choices concerning clean transportation options now and in future; (iii) evaluate social inequity regarding transportation choices and clean transportation options while improving public health outcomes; and (iv) identify the resiliency of the current coupled infrastructure system (CIS) for transportation and identifying any changes in feedback systems in the transition to a new regime of clean transportation. State-of-the-art urban-weather-chemistry-climate modeling will evaluate the effectiveness of clean transportation and GRAP interventions for air quality, map traffic intensity and environmental vulnerability, and conduct surveys to gauge public perceptions of vulnerability to air pollution and climate change. A mathematical model combined with a social sciences lens will be developed for analyzing TAQCIS for current and future climate change scenarios. The project will advance education by using novel ‘science gateways,’ a virtual platform for integrating transdisciplinary knowledge and exchanging knowledge across global institutions. With this use-inspired PIRE project, Discovery Partners Institute in Chicago will establish center-level activities that foster international partnerships for urban convergence research and education, as well as enhance awareness, diversity, and inclusion.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.