National Linear Infrastructure Laboratory - University of Southampton

现在迫切需要发展和利用科学认识方面的重大进展，这也是一个变革性的机会（包括社会和环境科学）、多学科系统思维、技术创新和工程以及制造方法，以适应和加强国家经济基础设施，保障和加强其在经济增长、极端事件复原力、社会福利、环境可持续性和出口潜力。进一步的研究挑战是了解基础设施的各个方面如何共生地服务于英国和其他地方的国家和城市不断变化的需求和雄心。通过对重点大学资本设备的有针对性的投资进行干预，将使世界领先的研究能够创造并为未来50年的基础设施新范式提供证据，降低当前和未来基础设施资产的拥有成本。因此，英国城市和整个国家将获得巨大的直接和间接的社会和经济效益，并为英国公司创造国际商业机会。UKCRIC将以重点突出和基于证据的方式解决上述缺点，充分利用现有的设施和人员投资，以达到最佳效果。它将扩大现有的研究计划，以解决近期问题，如对铁路系统，道路，洪水和水资源管理的投资;并采用智能传感器和系统来生成开放和大数据，以优化资产和投资的使用。从长远来看，UKCRIC将开发新材料，新工艺和新技术。在最高一级，它将了解如何使构成国家基础设施的系统系统更能抵御极端事件，更能适应不断变化的情况和背景，以及如何向全体人民提供更负担得起、更容易获得和更有用的服务。在现有能力的基础上，建立一个最先进的大型实验设施网络，支持世界领先的城市和基础设施研究;建立一个独特的全国性的地方“城市实验室”网络，以感知、捕捉、监测和评估英国城镇和城市的新的和现有的基础设施;iii.建立世界领先的计算和大数据基础设施，用于城市和基础设施的建模、模拟和可视化;iv.在全国范围内协调英国在城市和基础设施方面的研究，促进学科之间和跨部门的合作和知识共享;五、扩大和发展现有活动，为城市和基础设施研究中的工业参与、知识共享和技术转让提供重点;为地方、区域和国家各级的政策参与提供一个重点;作为全球城市和基础设施研究的联络点，保持和扩大英国在城市和基础设施设计、规划、交付、管理和运营方面的知识和创新领导地位。通过这些活动，UKCRIC将：1产生新的知识、技术和数字解决方案，降低未来50年必须进行的大量基础设施投资的风险，并为其增值; 2针对基础设施问题开发创新解决方案，包括数字解决方案，降低基础设施的拥有成本并增强衍生服务的价值;3从根本上提高基础设施系统和服务应对极端事件的弹性; 4发展和保持基础设施专业人员的能力，以增加国内和全球商业市场机会。南安普顿大学国家[线性]基础设施实验室是UKCRIC的一部分。

There is an urgent need, and a transformative opportunity, to develop and exploit major advances in scientific understanding (including in the social and environmental sciences), multidisciplinary systems thinking, technological innovation and engineering, and manufacturing methods to adapt and augment the national economic infrastructure in a way that safeguards and enhances its multiple benefits with regard to economic growth, extreme event resilience, social wellbeing, environmental sustainability and export potential. A further research challenge is to understand how all aspects of infrastructure symbiotically serve the evolving needs and ambitions of nations and cities within the UK and elsewhere.Intervention by way of targeted investment in capital equipment in key universities will enable world-leading research that creates and provides evidence for new paradigms in infrastructure over the next 50 years, reducing the cost of ownership of current and future infrastructure assets. As a result, significant direct & indirect societal and economic benefits will accrue to UK cities and to the country at large, and international commercial opportunities will be created for UK companies.UKCRIC will address the above shortcomings in a focussed and evidenced-based way, leveraging existing investments in facilities and people to best effect. It will scale up existing research programmes to address near term issues such as investment in rail systems, roads, and flood and water management; and employ smart sensors and systems to generate open and big data for optimising the use of assets and investments. In the longer term, UKCRIC will develop new materials, new techniques and novel technologies. At the highest level, it will understand how to make the system of systems that constitutes the nation's infrastructure more resilient to extreme events and more adaptable to changing circumstances and contexts, and how it can provide services that are more affordable, accessible and useable to the whole population.UKCRIC will:i. Build on existing capabilities to establish a network of state-of-the-art large-scale experimental facilities supporting world-leading research in cities and infrastructure;ii. Establish a unique, national network of local 'urban laboratories' to sense, capture, monitor & evaluate new and existing infrastructure in UK towns and cities;iii. Establish world-leading computation and big data infrastructure for the modelling, simulation, and visualisation of cities and infrastructure;iv. Coordinate UK research in cities and infrastructure nationally, promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing between disciplines and across sectors;v. Amplify and grow existing activity to provide a focus for industrial engagement, knowledge sharing and technology transfer in cities and infrastructure research;vi. Provide a focus for policy engagement at local, regional and national levels;vii. Act as a focal point for cities and infrastructure research worldwide, maintaining and extending the UK's knowledge and innovation leadership in the design, planning, delivery, management, and operation of cities and infrastructure.As a result of these activities, UKCRIC will:1 Generate new knowledge, technologies and digital solutions that reduce the risk of, and add value to, the very large investments in infrastructure that will have to be made over the next 50 years;2 Develop innovative solutions, including digital solutions, to infrastructure problems that reduce the cost of ownership of infrastructure and enhance the value of derived services;3 Radically improve the resilience of infrastructure systems and services against extreme events;4 Grow and maintain the capacity and capability of infrastructure professionals so as to enhance domestic and global commercial market opportunities.National [Linear] Infrastructure Laboratory at University of Southampton is part of UKCRIC.