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

工作区是危险环境，可能会影响工人、驾车者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，以最大限度地减少对安全和机动性的负面影响。通过一些战略、最近的做法和研究研究，对这种负面影响进行了广泛的研究和解决。然而，仍然需要一个在建筑和运输系统这两个世界之间提供无缝互连的集成系统。这样一个集成的系统需要实现工人、设备、车辆和其他道路使用者(即物理系统)、信息和通信系统(即网络系统)以及人类的认知、智力和社会行为(即社会系统)之间的动态交互。在这样一个由人、机器和信息相互作用的复杂、多样和动态的系统中，个体或集体系统的行为取决于对情景的感知和控制(即情景管理)。 为了推进情境管理模型的构建，本项目建议使用模拟人类认知心理能力的模型，如意识(意识)、推理、记忆、信念、适应和学习。因此，拟议的方案通过网络-物理-社会系统方法在工作区的动态系统中利用认知情况管理。这项研究将促进先进的方法、工具、技术和策略在施工运营管理中的应用，以及在工区交通管理中的应用。 这项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，同时也发现了建筑管理的基本知识。该研究项目的成功将为加拿大带来显著的经济、社会和环境效益，减少伤亡事故，减少交通拥堵，减少建筑以及货物和人员流动的代价高昂的延误。该计划将有针对性地将重点放在建筑和运输部门，并将成果转移到采矿、制造业和农业。

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.