Smarter Work Zone: Advancing Situation Management for Work Zone Safety and Mobility

工作区是危险的环境，可能会影响工人、驾驶员和其他道路使用者的安全，并导致交通拥堵和延误。智能工作区是具有创新战略的建筑区，旨在最大限度地减少对安全和移动性的负面影响。对这种负面影响进行了广泛的研究，并通过一些战略、最近的做法和调查研究加以解决。然而，仍然非常需要一个集成系统，在建筑和运输系统两个世界之间提供无缝互连。这种集成系统需要实现工人、设备、车辆和道路的其他用户（即物理系统）、信息和通信系统（即网络系统）以及人类认知、智能和社会行为（即社会系统）之间的动态交互。 在这样一个复杂、多样和动态的人、机器和信息交互系统中，个体或集体的系统行为取决于对情境的感知和控制（即情境管理）。为了推进情境管理模型的建设，本计划提出使用模拟人类认知的心理能力的模型，如意识（意识），推理，记忆，信念，适应和学习。因此，该计划利用认知情况管理，通过网络物理社会系统的方法在工作区的动态系统。本研究将推进最先进的方法，工具，技术和策略，用于施工操作和管理，以及用于工作区交通管理。拟议的研究符合政府组织，政策制定者和行业从业者的利益，沿着发现施工管理的基础知识。这项研究计划的成功将通过减少伤害和致命事故，减少交通拥堵，减少昂贵的建筑延误以及货物和人员的流动，为加拿大带来显着的经济，社会和环境效益。该计划将有针对性地关注建筑和运输部门，并将成果转移到采矿，制造业和农业行业。

Work zones are hazardous environments that can affect the safety of workers, motorists, and other users of roadways and cause traffic congestion and delays. Smart Work Zones are construction zones with innovative strategies to minimize the negative safety and mobility impacts. Such negative impacts have been extensively studied and addressed through a number of strategies, recent practices, and research studies. However, there still is a significant need for an integrated system that provides seamless interconnections between the two worlds of Construction and Transportation Systems. Such an integrated system needs to realize the dynamic interactions between workers, equipment, vehicles, and other users of the roadways (i.e. physical systems), the information and communication systems (i.e. cyber systems), as well as the human cognition, intelligence, and social behavior (i.e. social system). In such a complex, diverse, and dynamic system of interacting humans, machines, and information the individual or collective system behavior depends on the awareness and control of situations (i.e. situation management).***To advance the situation management models in construction, this program proposes to use models that simulate the mental ability of human cognition, such as consciousness (awareness), reasoning, memory, beliefs, adaptation, and learning. Thus, the proposed program utilizes cognitive situation management through a Cyber-Physical-Social system approach in the dynamic system of the work zone. This study will advance the state-of-the-art methods, tools, techniques, and strategies used in construction operation and management as well as the ones used in work zone traffic management.***The proposed study meets the interests of governmental organizations, policymakers, and industry practitioners along with discovering fundamental knowledge in construction management. Success in this research program will result in notable economic, social, and environmental benefits for Canada through a reduction in injurious and fatal accidents, decreased traffic congestion, and reduced costly delays for construction as well as for the movement of goods and people. This program will have a targeted focus on the construction and transportation sectors with transferable outcomes to the mining, manufacturing, and agriculture industries.