Research Hub for Decarbonised Adaptable and Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe)

我们的愿景是在系统分析的指导下，实现具有气候适应性的、净零发展的交通系统。当这一愿景实现时，决策者将能够访问（和可视化）数据，这些数据将告诉他们现在和未来交通运输在弹性、脱碳和其他目标方面的表现。我们将向他们提供系统模型，这些模型将有助于查明漏洞并量化失败的风险。这将使他们能够对拟议的投资进行“假设”分析，并对决定未来交通系统性能的主要不确定因素（如人口增长、新材料和新技术以及气候变化）进行压力测试。我们的目标是共同开展研究，规划可行的途径和解决方案，到2050年为人们和社区提供一个有弹性的、零净的交通系统。DARe将成为首选中心，因为我们将广泛和积极地参与，并向决策者提供证据、指导和工具，使他们能够优先考虑早期干预和投资。我们的研究项目将采用“系统的系统”（system-of-systems）为主导的运输方法，识别并解决国家、地区和地方这三个不同但又相互关联的层面上的挑战。它将解决现有和新的交通基础设施的弹性和净零的相互交织的挑战，并确定和提供解决方案，以解决由于净零过渡可能出现的新漏洞，包括与数字和电力基础设施的关键相互依赖关系。它将展示重新构想和思考我们的交通系统如何为人们以及我们经济所依赖的商品和服务提供流动性所带来的好处和机遇，并将为治理和政策如何实现和推动这些变化提供见解。我们与东北和西北英格兰、诺森伯兰郡、剑桥郡和哈特兰以及苏格兰的多个公民合作伙伴以及我们强大的其他合作伙伴协商制定了我们的研究计划。DARe将在此基础上向所有人开放合作伙伴关系，并在前9个月积极参与共同创造活动计划，共同确定情景和故事情节，引导我们应对当地区域和国家交通基础设施脱碳的双重挑战，同时提高其在气候变化背景下的复原力和适应性。通过DARe灵活基金，更广泛的研究界的作用和参与将有助于实现这一目标。DARe工作计划包括五个综合工作包（WP）、四个重点研究活动和一个管理工作包。WP1提供了共同创建的交通未来故事线，塑造了枢纽的研究活动，并在三个空间尺度上发展了故事线，通过交通-电力-数字关键基础设施之间的系统-系统交互进行了压力测试解决方案。WP2提供了一个新的、可转移的开源建模框架，它将作为DARe的遗产与更广泛的社区共同开发和使用。WP3将讨论对基础设施资产的实际影响，以及它们受气候影响的性能将如何影响全寿命管理。WP4将在考虑枢纽的政策、社会经济、行为和土地使用规划方面时，提供对故事情节的更广泛影响和现实影响的见解。WP0将致力于枢纽管理、治理和参与。

Our Vision is for climate resilient, net zero development of the transport system to be guided by systems analysis. When this vision is realised, decision-makers will have access to (and visualisation of) data that tells them how transport is performing against resilience, decarbonisation, and other objectives, now and in the future. We will deliver them systems models that will help to pinpoint vulnerabilities and quantify the risks of failure. This will enable them to perform 'what-if' analysis of proposed investments and to stress-test scenarios for the major uncertainties that will determine the performance of future transport systems, such as population growth, new materials and technologies and climate change. Our ambition is to deliver co-created research that plots viable pathways and solutions for delivering a resilient, net-zero transport system that works for people and communities by 2050. DARe will be the go-to Hub because we will engage widely and proactively, and provide the evidence, guidance and tools to decision-makers that will enable them to prioritise early interventions and investments. . Our research programme will take a system-of-systems led approach to transport which recognises and addresses the challenges at the three, distinct but critically interlinked, scales of national, regional and local. It will address the interwoven challenges of resilience and net zero, for both existing and new transport infrastructures, and identify and provide solutions for new vulnerabilities that may occur because of the net zero transition, including critical interdependencies with digital and power infrastructures. It will demonstrate the benefits and opportunities that come from reimagining and rethinking how our transport systems deliver mobility to both people and the goods and services our economy relies on, and will offer insight on how governance and policy can enable and drive these changes.We have shaped our research programme in consultation with our multiple civic partners in North East and North West England, Northumberland, Cambridgeshire & Heartland and Scotland as well as our strong cohort of additional partners. DARe will build on this by opening the partnership to all and proactively engage in a programme of co-creation events during the first nine months to jointly define scenarios and storylines leading us towards addressing the dual challenge of decarbonising our local regional and national transport infrastructures whilst increasing their resilience and adaptability in a context of climate change. The role and participation of the wider research community via the DARe Flexible Fund will be instrumental in delivering this. The DARe work programme comprises five integrated work packages (WPs), four focussed research activities plus a management WP. WP1 delivers the co-created transport futures storylines which shape the research activities of the hub and develops the storylines to stress-test solutions across the three spatial scales, contextualised by the systems-of-systems interactions between transport-power-digital critical infrastructures. WP2 provides a new, transferable open-source modelling framework that will be co-developed with and made available to the wider community as a legacy of DARe. WP3 will address the physical implications for infrastructure assets and how their climate-perturbed performance will impact whole-life management. WP4 will provide insights into the wider implications and real-world impacts of the storylines when considering the policy, socio-economic, behavioural and land use planning aspects of the hub. WP0 will be dedicated to hub management, governance and engagement.