29 September – 2 October 2014
Vienna, Austria
The grand challenge set for the 2014 International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure (ISNGI) has been designed to support the rapidly expanding international research community seeking to understand the interactions between infrastructure, the population it serves, the environment in which it functions, technology and the economy.
Key note speakers:
Bruce Beck
Professor and Eminent Scholar on Environmental Systems and Analysis, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, USA
Richard de Neufville
Professor of Engineering Systems and of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Robert J Lempert
Director, Frederick S Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition, Pardee RAND Graduate School, USA
Jim Watson
Professor and Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre
The objective is to develop a co-ordinated global infrastructure research programme looking at long term infrastructure and land use planning, and helping to ensure industry, government and academia are able work together. This will create best practice benchmarks and new knowledge to inform strategies for long term prosperity.
For 2014, the Grand Challenge is:
”Can we imagine resilient infrastructure systems that can meet the needs of twice today’s population with half today’s resources while providing better liveability for all?”
This Challenge will examine transport, energy, water, waste, telecommunications, housing, social infrastructure, and green infrastructure) and the interdependencies that make up the physical, economic and social systems of cities and regions.
- More details on ISNGI 2014.
Overarching themes of ISNGI 2014:
- Infrastructure provision and social needs
- Resilience and reliability of interdependent infrastructures
- Multi-level and transnational governance issues
- Legacy infrastructure
- Infrastructure and the city
- Infrastructure and extreme events
- Infrastructure financing
- Infrastructure and systemic risk
- Infrastructure modelling and simulation
- Infrastructure and big/open data
The first symposium on next generation infrastructure was held in Australia, 2013.
