Integrated Urban Infrastructure Systems

由于城市对地球的影响和对我们社会的价值，城市的可持续性和复原力是国家和全球关注的问题。理解、规划和设计城市和城市基础设施系统的可持续性和复原力充满了挑战。这些问题包括如何规划有成效和高效率的全系统恢复工作，以及如何实施基础设施系统，使其对当地和全球资源和废物吸收方面的限制很敏感。 本研究以当代城市基础设施系统为研究对象，主要从基础设施构成、基础设施系统和城市规模三个方面，运用多种建模和案例研究方法进行研究。在接下来的五年里，基础设施系统研究的核心问题是：(1)复原力和可持续性决策如何相互影响？(2)如何在更广泛的系统中评估个人系统的影响？(3)我们如何确定系统范围的复原力治疗？以及(4)各城市可以从彼此的基础设施弹性中学到什么教训？这些问题是通过四名本科生、两名硕士和两名博士生进行的四项研究进行的。 这些研究(1)详细说明复原力与可持续性处理之间的关系；(2)说明利益攸关方的系统如何相互影响，以及如何影响更广泛的城市系统；(3)提供先进手段，为基础设施系统找到新的复原力处理办法；(4)对城市进行比较复原力评估，以确定有助于和阻碍城市基础设施系统恢复的共同和不同做法。此外，该项目保持并建立了加拿大在土木工程和运筹学交汇处这一关键领域的形象，特别是在城市继续成为全球关注的问题的情况下。

The sustainability and resiliency of cities is of national and global concern due to their impact on the planet and their value to our society. Understanding, planning and designing for sustainability and resiliency of cities and urban infrastructure systems is fraught with challenges. These include how to plan for effective and efficient system-wide recovery and how to implement infrastructure systems such that they are sensitive to local and global resource and waste absorption constraints. The proposed research focuses on contemporary urban infrastructure systems at the infrastructure component, infrastructure systems and city scales using a variety of modeling and case study techniques. During the next five years the core infrastructure systems research questions are: (1) How do resilience and sustainability decisions impact one another? (2) How can the impacts of individuals' systems be valued in a broader system? (3) How can we determine system-wide resilience treatments? And (4) what infrastructure resiliency lessons can cities learn from one another? These questions are examined through four studies conducted by four undergraduate students, two master's students and two doctoral students. These studies (1) provide detailed delineations of the relationship between resilience and sustainability treatments; (2) demonstrate how stakeholder's systems impact one another and the broader urban system; (3) deliver advanced means to locate novel resilience treatments for infrastructure systems; and (4) produce comparative resilience assessments of cities to identify common and differing practices that aid and hinder recovery of urban infrastructure systems. In addition, this program maintains and builds Canada's profile in this critical field at the intersection of civil engineering and operations research, especially as cities continue to mount as global issue of concern.