A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine-appointed ad hoc committee will plan and organize a workshop to explore state-of-the-art analytical tools that could advance urban sustainability through improved prioritization of public works projects. This workshop will bring together diverse stakeholders to discuss approaches toward the following topics:
• Optimizing work plans given constrained resources;
• Evaluating the best-value delivery methodologies for targeted public works projects;
• Utilizing data from sensing, information and communications technologies in conjunction with descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive models for decision making (while also accounting for inherent uncertainties); and
• Exploring the potential socioeconomic impact of investment choices including recent trends to make equity central to sustainability efforts.
In addressing these topics, the workshop will:
• Bring together domain experts from urban sustainability, city planning, local public and private infrastructure providers, asset management, and infrastructure investment communities with statisticians, data scientists, mathematicians, economists, computer scientists, and artificial intelligence/machine learning experts to share ideas, best practices, and opportunities; and
• Identify new research areas that have the potential to advance urban sustainability in public works planning.
One or more rapporteurs who are not members of the committee will be designated to prepare a workshop proceeding.