Resilient-NET: International Networks Towards Urban Resilience

Resilient-NET will take a holistic perspective with a special focus on the complex interactions among technology, people and environment. (i) The technology aspect (i.e., the New Dimension) will focus on the increasingly prevalent integration of AI-enabled systems into urban infrastructure and mobility systems. At the dawn of large-scale AI implementations in the next decade, the proposed activities will identify inherent vulnerabilities and key performance characteristics for AI-enabled urban systems, ensure resilience of emerging urban mobility systems, and identify a research agenda for effective and safe system-system interactions. (ii) The people aspect (i.e., the Missing Puzzle) will enhance our understanding on the increasingly complex interactions between humans and technology, as a singular focus on the technology aspect will not automatically build resilience into our societies. (iii) The environment aspect (i.e., the Uncertainty Accelerator) will focus on the increasingly frequent extreme natural events that simultaneously impose vulnerabilities and uncertainties on urban socio-technical systems, and will identify the solutions for data-driven disaster preparedness, urban digital twin, and the predictive capabilities for compound cascading extreme natural events. In summary, the integrated techno-socio-climate approach adopted by this project will enable our societies as well as research communities to better understand the complicated technology-human interactions, identify research gaps, priorities and solutions in trustworthy AI technologies and quantitative social resilience research for different social entities in relation to infrastructural resilience.

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