ABSTRACT

At a time of system shocks, significant underlying challenges are revealed in current approaches to delivering infrastructure, including that infrastructure users in many societies feel distant from nature. We set out a research agenda on systems approaches to infrastructure, drawing on ten years of interdisciplinary work on operating infrastructure, infrastructure interventions and lifecycles. Research insights and directions on complexity, systems integration, data-driven systems engineering, infrastructure life-cycles, and the transition towards zero pollution are summarised. This work identifies a need to better understand the natural and societal impacts of infrastructure interventions under uncertainty. We argue for a change in current approaches to infrastructure: starting from the natural environment and its resources, encompassing societal use of infrastructure and the supporting infrastructure assets and services. To support such proposed new systems approaches to infrastructure, researchers need to develop novel modelling methods, forms of model integration, and multi-criteria indicators.

摘要

在系统遭受冲击之时，当前交付基础架构的方法揭示了重大的潜在挑战，包括许多社会中的基础架构用户感到与自然相距遥远。我们基于对基础设施的运营，基础设施干预和生命周期的十年跨学科工作，制定了一项有关基础设施系统方法的研究议程。有关复杂性，系统集成，数据驱动的系统工程，基础架构生命周期以及向零污染过渡的研究见解和方向总结一下。这项工作确定了需要更好地了解不确定性下基础设施干预措施的自然和社会影响的必要性。我们主张改变当前的基础设施方法：从自然环境及其资源开始，包括基础设施的社会用途以及基础设施的资产和服务的支持。为了支持这种提议的基础设施新系统方法，研究人员需要开发新颖的建模方法，模型集成形式和多标准指标。