Spotlight Session: Sustainable Urban Systems – Our Path Forward
The aim of the SUS is to engage practitioners and researchers by providing a platform for multidisciplinary systems approaches to understand, plan, build, and manage sustainable, healthy, and resilient cities. At the event we want industry, business, government and academia to reconnect with the global scholarly community, to learn about the latest developments in the field, and to engage with each other in times of the pandemic.
The ISIE SUS section wants you to (re)imagine the research goals and vision for cities across a rapidly changing world. After an initial introduction from our SUS board members, future and current leaders will explore emerging SUS areas of environmental justice, circular economy, digital twins, energy analysis, and resilience.
Session program:
- Minute 0-10: Introduction, by Dr. Melissa Bilec and Dr. Hua Cai, co-chair SUS Board
- Minute 10-30: “Digital Twins and the Smart City”, by Philip James, Professor of Urban Data, School of Engineering, Newcastle University.
- Minute 30-50: “Feasibility of Electrifying the Ride-Hailing Fleet for Sustainable Urban Mobility”, by Dr. Ming Xu, Professor in School for Environment and Sustainability and Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan.
- Minute 50-70: “Multi-scale Urban Energy Analytics for Low-carbon and Equitable Development”, by Dr. Kangkang Tong, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University; Researcher in the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network; Fellow in the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities of Tomorrow.
- Minute 70-90: “Air pollution, Health, and Equity”, by Dr. Harold Rickenbacker, Manager, Clean Air and Innovation, Environmental Defense Fund
- Minute 90-110: “Resilient Urban System in the Face of Looming Uncertainties: Towards Risk-Resilience-Sustainability Nexus-Based Data-Driven Decision Making”, by Dr. Muhammad Sajjad, Senior Scientist of Climate Risk & Resilience at Intensel Limited
- Minute 110-120: Questions and Answers
Organizers and session chairs: This session is organised by the ISIE Sustainable Urban Systems (SUS) Section and will be chaired by Dr. Melissa Bilec (University of Pittsburgh) and Dr. Hua Cai (Purdue University).
If you need technical assistance, please contact us at industrialecologyday@is4ie.org.