Virtual decision rooms for water neutral urban planning (VENTURA)

Ventura是一项基于跨学科系统的基础设施方法的数字服务，允许最终用户通过由最先进的过程驱动的模型支持的虚拟参与过程来探索住房和供水系统规划选项。这项研究涉及共同创建一个基于网络的最终用户主导的原型，称为虚拟决策室(VDR)，以帮助运动走向可持续的数字社会。VDR将与当地政府、当地社区、监管机构和自来水公司(“最终用户”)共同创建，在项目期间使用共同设计的水中和指标，共同规划和评估城市增长规划情景的环境可持续性。VDR将使用全水系统数字双胞胎(FuturaWat)，支持以证据为导向的水中和规划，以进行地点制作。这将通过将两个最先进的数字工具：基于地理信息系统的地面风险计算器(GRISC)和全水系统模型(CityWat)与参与性进程相结合来实现，以促进最终用户对住房和供水系统规划方案的讨论和决策。拟议研究的主要新颖性在于将系统方法应用于基础设施规划、协作工作和可持续发展评估。VDR将通过将其应用于大曼彻斯特和伦敦市恩菲尔德区的案例研究实例进行测试，以使最终用户能够协调其战略规划和水资源管理优先事项。文图拉概念是与我们的项目合作伙伴共同开发的，他们帮助我们制定了大曼彻斯特(GM)和伦敦恩菲尔德(LBE)案例。在通用汽车，这项工作将直接支持大曼彻斯特联合管理局(GMCA)的“升级”战略，并帮助它们在考虑洪水风险、棕地土地补救、环境退化和更广泛的气候变化适应能力等更广泛的问题时，全面应对交付方面的挑战。LBE案例将支持Enfield Council过渡到一个数字平台，该平台将使基础设施需求与投资机会相关联，并帮助他们更有效地与当地社区接触并讨论当地计划，由于缺乏证据，这些计划目前不包括水需求和水质评估。这两个案例都将通过与当地合作非政府组织Thames21(LBE)和Mersey Rivers Trust(GM)的合作明确说明社区的观点。VENTURA直接针对当前英国政府的高调战略举措，包括‘规划未来’白皮书和国家数字双胞胎计划。特别是，Ventura为白皮书中雄心勃勃的建议提供了概念验证，这些建议寻求显著缩短规划周期的持续时间，支持环境质量的净收益，并将公众参与规划系统的前期工作转移到规划编制的规划阶段。这项研究将调整传统的工作做法，以帮助工作变得更可持续。这将通过为研究制定可持续发展政策而正式确定，并将包括通过嵌入项目管理来监测和管理环境绩效、报告进展情况以及与EPSRC其他项目分享良好做法等举措。

VENTURA is a digital service based on interdisciplinary systems approaches to infrastructure that allows end-users to explore housing and water system planning options through a virtual participatory process supported by state-of-the-art process-driven models. The research involves co-creating a web-based and end-user led prototype called a virtual decision room (VDR) to help movements towards a sustainable digital society. The VDR will be co-created with local government, the local community, regulators and water utility companies ('end-users') to collaboratively plan and evaluate the environmental sustainability of urban growth planning scenarios using co-designed water neutrality indicators during the project. The VDR will use a whole-water system Digital Twin (FuturaWat) that supports evidence-led water neutral planning for place making. This will be achieved by integrating two state-of-art digital tools: GIS-based ground risk calculator (GRISC) and whole-water system model (CityWat) with a participatory process to facilitate end-user discussion and decision-making on housing and water system planning scenarios. The key novelty of the proposed research is in applying systems approaches to infrastructure planning, collaborative working and sustainability evaluation.The VDR will be tested by applying it to Greater Manchester and London Borough of Enfield case study examples to enable end-users to align their strategic planning and water management priorities. The VENTURA concept was co-developed with our project partners, who have helped us formulate Greater Manchester (GM) and London Borough of Enfield (LBE) case examples. In GM the work will directly support the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) 'levelling up' strategies and help them to holistically address 'challenges to delivery when considering wider issues such as flood risk, brownfield land remediation, environmental degradation and wider resilience to climate change'. The LBE case example will support Enfield Council in their transition to a digital platform that will enable correlation of infrastructure needs with investment opportunities and help them to more effectively engage with local communities and discuss local plans, which currently do not include water demand and water quality evaluation because of lack of evidence. Both case examples will explicitly account for community perspectives through collaborations with partner local NGOs: Thames21 (LBE) and The Mersey Rivers Trust (GM).VENTURA directly addresses the current UK Government's high-profile strategic initiatives including 'Planning for the future' White Paper and the National Digital Twin Programme. In particular, VENTURA provides a proof-of-concept for the White Paper's highly ambitious proposals that seek to reduce the duration of the planning cycle significantly, supporting net gains in the quality of the environment and front-loading public engagement in the planning system to the plan-making stage of place-making. The research will adapt traditional working practices to help the work become more sustainable. This will be formalised through the development of a sustainability policy for the research and will include initiatives such as monitoring and managing environmental performance by embedding into project management, reporting progress and sharing good practice with other EPSRC projects.