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2 Relevant Data, Analytics, and Metrics for Infrastructure and Sustainability
2 Relevant Data, Analytics, and Metrics for Infrastructure and Sustainability
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2.1 DATA TO ACTION: USING DATA TO SUPPORT RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON Loren Hopkins, Houston Health Department, noted that Houston -- with 7 million residents, rising temperatures, multiple bayous, frequent flooding and significant air pollution from vehicles and its port -- is particularly challenging for sustainable infrastructure planning. Resilient Houston,1 a mayoral initiative, envisions a city that is a healthy place to live; is equitable, inclusive, and affordable; leads in climate adaptation; grows up, not out; and develops a transformative economy.
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Another partnership between the Houston Health Department and academic research groups works to understand asthma attacks in Houston communities, their relation to pollution and climate change, where to target interventions, and how to support asthma care through the use of multidata interpretation (e.g., 911 data, air-monitor data, census tract demographics, medical compliance data, and the Texas Children's Health Plan vulnerability index)
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Grineski, 2019, "Exploring the Environmental Justice Implications of Hurricane Harvey Flooding in Greater Houston, Texas," American Journal of Public Health 109(2) :244–250, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304846; K
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2.2 RELEVANT COMMUNITY DATA FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY Brittany Sellers, City of Orlando, Florida, explained that the Orlando's Office of Sustainability and Resilience, launched in 2007, has more than 100 strategies across seven key areas: clean energy, green buildings, local food systems, zero waste, livability, clean water, and electric and alternative transportation. She described three key questions that her office evaluates to help determine which data are relevant to sustainability and infrastructure and how they can be used.
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2.3 INFLUENCE OF COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE ON SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE OUTCOMES Kyle Buck, Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, described the concepts that drive his modeling work, starting with the individual/community as the origin of the research. He emphasized the importance of being attentive to the distribution and characteristics of this population.
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The University of Virginia is working closely with the Census Bureau on the Curated Data Enterprise,4 which could create a "universal frame" for data integration to empower the Census Bureau to use multiple data sources and create more robust measures. Salvo emphasized that local planners should be both consumers and directors of data.
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This information could then be combined with safety and engineering data from federal agencies and local governments to produce a platform that a local decision maker could use to better understand how to mitigate the effects on a nursing home of a severe climate event. In closing, Salvo underscored the value of data products that are actionable at a local level, capture data in real time, and are accessible to local governments as events are happening to enable data-driven actions.
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For the objective of safety, FHWA expects reports on fatalities and fatality rate as well as serious injuries and serious injury rate. Common data sources for such highwayrelated metrics include the Highway Performance Monitoring System, the National Bridge Inventory, the National Performance Management Research Data Set, agency traffic performance databases, agency safety databases, and agency infrastructure management systems.
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Saya, and A Chandra, 2017, Resilience Dividend Valuation Model: Framework Development and Initial Case Studies, Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2129.html.
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Saya, and A Chandra, 2017, "Resilience Dividend Valuation Model: Framework Development and Initial Case Studies," Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, https://www.rand.org/pubs/ research_reports/RR2129.html.
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This study of resilience dividends also revealed that different investment strategies have different pathways to benefits, that the resilience of a system depends on behavior and constraints, that data to establish causation are expensive, and that benefits can accrue even in the absence of a shock. She added that procedural, contextual/historical, and distributional elements of equity should also be considered to measure infrastructure investments and services.
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Chandra described the challenges of obtaining useful and high-quality asset data: because a municipal government can capture only so much data, more consistent relationships with the private sector would be beneficial. Sellers suggested building relationships with residents, other local governments, and private companies as well as holding routine public meetings for people to express what is important to them, which could improve access to data at the appropriate level.
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Chandra highlighted the value of considering an equity perspective as well as the role of the private sector in infrastructure investment decisions. She also encouraged decision makers to think about how new threat information is being consumed more quickly and how that affects infrastructure investment; better private-sector partnerships would also enable data access for those purposes.
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