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Newsletter "FCL-G Weekly Update 28" - issued on July 12, 2024
Newsletter "FCL-G Weekly Update 28" - issued on July 12, 2024
This Thursday 18th July, ACP are hosting a symposium at URA, titled 'Health and Wellbeing in the City: Cognition, Behaviour and Emotion'. If you’re interested in joining us at the symposium, please sign up here, and share with your relevant networks.
- Rohit Dubey and the Zurich team have submitted a paper titled "FAIRLANE: A Multi-Agent approach to priority lane management in diverse traffic composition" for review.
- Sri presented the Dense and Green Cities project and Singapore's Transformation journey to the students at the ETH CAS Spatial Development + Process Design course as part of the FCL Global programme input into their course module.
- The SG team is working on the paper for the IJSSC journal on the poster presented at the WCS 2024 in June. The team will be commencing biodiversity surveys at the case study locations in the coming months. - Anjanaa and Ivan from the DEN team will present their research at the upcoming 'Health and Wellbeing in the City: Cognition, behaviour and emotion' symposium organised by ACP at URA Centre next week.
- Sri has been invited to be part of the Course Advisory Panel to Review Training Materials of Skyrise Greenery Certification Programme (SGCP). CUGE is developing the Skyrise Greenery Certification Programme (SGCP) Part 2 which will focus on green walls and green installations in vertical systems. The panel is expected to review the course materials and content and validate for implementation.
-The paper co-authored by Jidong Kang, titled “A Distributionally Robust Optimization Model for Building-Integrated Photovoltaic System Expansion Planning under Demand and Irradiance Uncertainties” is now accessible at Applied Energy. This collaborative effort, coauthored by researchers from Future Resilient Systems (with ZhuoChun WU as the first author) and Future Cities Lab at the Singapore-ETH Center, introduces an innovative approach to address data uncertainty issues in building-integrated photovoltaic system expansion planning. Our proposed model significantly enhances performance in handling data uncertainties compared to existing methods such as stochastic programming and robust optimization. If you would like to explore our findings further, the paper is accessible via the following link
- Alina was at the Net Zero Carbon built environment conference in Nottingham. She presented a paper with a title "Stakeholders’ perspectives on low carbon building renovation – challenges and opportunities", proceedings are not yet available. It is part of her Agora project
- one paper accepted for the 27th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (ITSC 2024). The title is "Estimating electric vehicle charging demand and its Impact on the power grid using mobile phone data", the work was led by Jiazu, and collaborated with Seanglidet Yean (POW), Tianyu Dong (EFF), Bu Sung Lee (POW), Markus Schläpfer (POW).
- Selina's abstract for ICSA 2025 entitled "Towards a mycelium mono-material: growing foam-like mycelium on dense mycelium boards" was accepted.
- Jia Heng gave a brief presentation about the module to educators from Raffles Institution on Tuesday.
- organizing ur-scape workshops for Singapore Design Week
- ongoing work for Palembang and Kolkata case studies, agropolitan index and book proposal for "Agropolitan Territories: a field guide"
- made a presentation to Raffles Institution educators who approached FCL for strategic insights into how cities will be designed and planned in the future and how the format of learning will evolve with the changing technology.
- Nicolas presented the module's work at the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
- Constance and Nicolas presented the serious game being developped for Antananrivo in the conference "Jeux et Enjeux" in Montpellier, France.
- Wrapping up the lessons learned from organising our last AI for Smart Mobility symposium and sharing with other modules (e.g. ACP) for similar events in the next couple of weeks.
- Evaluating the AI research status quo of the module, envisioning topics, and assessing its capabilities for the near and future course of the project under the programme.
- Dr Vo Dang Khoa presented two works on data fusion at the 13th Asia-Pacific Conference on Transportation and the Environment in Singapore (8-10 July 2024). The first work integrates Household Travel Survey (HTS) and Smart Card (SC) data for activity schedules, while the second uses HTS and passively-collected mobility (PCM) data for home-work locations, employing clustering and optimization with Seoul 2016 and 2021 datasets.
- Dr Qiming Ye and Asst Prof Prateek Bansal have submitted a journal paper, 'Optimisation of Urban On-street Parking Space for Shared Autonomous Vehicles' to the Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
- Other research works proceed smoothly
- Evaluating the AI research status-quo of the module, and envision topics and assessing the capabilities of it for the near and further future course of the project under the programme.
-Qian Cao gave a preseantation on behalf of SEA to Raffles institute at URA on Tuesday
-Research activities goes smoothly
Why are Science, Design, Engineering and Governance so important for FCL Global to become the founding pillars of the programme? Visit the landing page of the updated Engagement Platform and click on the four words showing the pillars to know more. This content has been created through a cross-modular effort bringing together the overall vision of FCL Global and the knowledge of the 13 research modules. If you or your team wants to provide a contribution to one or more pillars, please get in contact with Nicolò Guariento.
The Engagement Platform is being developed based on the Platform Model, aiming to enhance the value of the outcomes generated by the components of the FCL Global Ecosystem, primarily its research modules by fostering synergies and collaborations. To learn more about how we are utilising the platform model, visit our newly published dedicated page here.
- With the latest update of the Engagement Platform (Release 1.1.18) we have improved the module survey for the current reporting period, in order to better reflect and keep track of our KPIs. The survey is now open and module coordinators are requested to fill it with the relevant information for the reporting period April 24 - September 24, by Saturday the 30th of August. For any question on the content of the survey, please get in touch with Erik Hagander. For any technical issue, please get in touch with Nicolò Guariento.
- This week FCL Global collaborated with the Raffles Institution (RI) on their Learning Journey workshops for their educators, focusing on the future of education and the topics related to climate change and technology advancement that need to be integrated into the secondary school course curriculum. Thomas presented FCL Global's research in the context of Climate Change challenges, and Ander shared the Cooling Singapore project at RI on Monday. The participants visited FCL Global Exhibition at URA on Tuesday, followed by a sharing session by the FCL Global researchers on selected topics of interest for the workshop participants. The session was very well received. Thomas will join the participants' Design Studio final review on Friday at RI.