UKCRIC National Linear Infrastructure Laboratory - University of Southampton

迫切需要发展和利用在科学认识(包括社会科学和环境科学)、多学科系统思维、技术创新和工程以及制造方法方面取得的重大进展，以调整和加强国家经济基础设施，以保障和加强其在经济增长、极端事件复原力、社会福祉、环境可持续性和出口潜力方面的多重效益，这是一个具有变革性的机会。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国家和城市不断发展的需求和雄心。通过对重点大学资本设备的定向投资进行干预，将使世界领先的研究能够创造并为未来50年基础设施的新范式提供证据，从而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显著的直接和间接社会效益和经济效益，并将为英国公司创造国际商业机会。英国审评委将以有重点和有证据的方式解决上述不足，充分利用现有的设施和人员投资，以实现最佳效果。它将扩大现有的研究计划，以解决近期问题，如对铁路系统、道路以及洪水和水管理的投资；并使用智能传感器和系统来生成开放的大数据，以优化资产和投资的使用。从长远来看，UKCRIC将开发新材料、新技术和新技术。在最高层面，它将了解如何使构成国家基础设施的系统对极端事件更具弹性，更能适应不断变化的环境和背景，以及如何能够提供更负担得起、更容易获得和可供全民使用的服务。英国审评委将：i.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；ii.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的新的和现有的基础设施；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；在全国范围内协调英国在城市和基础设施方面的研究，促进不同学科和部门之间的合作和知识共享；v.扩大和扩大现有活动，为城市和基础设施研究中的产业参与、知识共享和技术转让提供重点；vi.为地方、区域和国家各级的政策参与提供重点；作为全球城市和基础设施研究的焦点，保持和扩大英国在城市和基础设施的设计、规划、交付、管理和运营方面的知识和创新领导地位。作为这些活动的结果，UKCRIC将：1产生新的知识、技术和数字解决方案，以降低未来50年必须对基础设施进行的巨额投资的风险，并增加其价值；2开发创新的解决方案，包括数字解决方案，以解决基础设施问题，降低基础设施的拥有成本，并提高衍生服务的价值；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培养和保持基础设施专业人员的能力和能力，以增加国内和全球的商业市场机会。南安普顿大学的国家[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.