Integrated Urban Infrastructure Systems

城市的可持续性和复原力是国家和全球关注的问题，因为它们对地球的影响及其对我们社会的价值。理解、规划和设计城市和城市基础设施系统的可持续性和弹性充满了挑战。这些包括如何规划有效和高效的系统范围内的恢复，以及如何实施基础设施系统，使他们对当地和全球的资源和废物吸收的限制是敏感的。拟议的研究重点是当代城市基础设施系统的基础设施组成部分，基础设施系统和城市规模使用各种建模和案例研究技术。在未来五年内，基础设施系统的核心研究问题是：（1）弹性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)我们如何确定全系统的复原力治疗方法？（4）城市之间可以相互学习哪些基础设施弹性经验教训？这些研究（1）详细描述了恢复力和可持续性处理之间的关系;（2）展示了利益相关者的系统如何相互影响以及如何影响更广泛的城市系统;（3）提供了先进的方法来为基础设施系统找到新的恢复力处理方法;（4）为基础设施系统的可持续性处理提供了新的方法。以及（4）对城市的复原力进行比较评估，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，该计划在土木工程和运筹学的交叉点保持和建立加拿大在这一关键领域的形象，特别是随着城市继续成为全球关注的问题。

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.