Annotation of the results obtained in 2022
The following scientific results were obtained during the first stage of research on the project: 1. The task of classifying urban objects, taking into account the provision of living conditions in various natural and climatic conditions, was solved on the basis of a study of the components of urban infrastructure and an analysis of factors affecting the quality of the urban environment. The systematization of information about the structural features of the urban environment was carried out on the basis of the study of objects that ensure the realization of the needs of human life activity. Twelve basic components were identified, on the basis of which a set of properties was determined that characterizes compliance with the standards of a comfortable and safe urban environment. 2. The classification of the basic components of the urban infrastructure, objects of the urbanized territory and elements of the urban planning system was carried out, in accordance with the general principles of their creation and operation, as well as taking into account certain variable natural and ecological-climatic factors of the environment. A three-stage approach to assessing the state of objects in the urban environment based on the analysis of spatial data is proposed. The developed approach was tested on two cases: (i) inspection for visual contamination of the vertical surfaces of the territory's objects; (ii) controlling the filling of garbage containers and waste collection areas. 3. The systematization of information about the features of urban spaces was carried out, which made it possible to form indicators characterizing the influence of environmental and climatic factors on the ability of the urban environment to provide the necessary level of safety for the health and comfort of residents. It is proposed to use open data with geospatial reference to assess the quality of the urban environment. Individual indicators can be evaluated both for a local area of the territory and for the entire city. Presentation of evaluation results is implemented on the basis of spatial data visualization methods. Atmospheric air quality; the state of the geological and aquatic environment; noise impact; the quality of the visual environment; bioclimatic conditions are considered as analyzed indicators. 4. The problems accompanying the process of managing objects of urbanized territories are analyzed. Issues related to obtaining information for their accounting and analysis of the state are considered. Additional criteria are proposed for selecting options for the development of the territory, taking into account the feasibility of transforming the project, taking into account the existing development. It is shown that the efficiency of urban area management depends on the correct choice of the strategy for involving objects in economic activity, restoring their functional significance and ensuring environmental safety. The method based on fuzzy sets is proposed to be used to select effective solutions for the use of the territory, as the most optimal in conditions of high uncertainty and complexity of the processes under consideration. 5. The conducted studies made it possible to assess the potential of various sources of information about the state of the human life activity environment, including various infrastructural factors and the activities of the people themselves. It is proposed to use social response as a basis for one of the aspects of urban development monitoring. An approach to generating a news feed using heterogeneous sources of information was implemented to conduct field experiments during the study. An approach has been developed for creating synthetic news messages that characterize the state of the urban environment and the events taking place in it, based on parsing real news, changing geographic data in real news, generating texts using the GPT-3 neural network, generating texts based on the template library and generating game news based on information from a mobile application for accounting the state of urban environment objects. 6. The analysis of the problems of using ontological models in the design of architectural objects, buildings and structures is carried out. The urban planning norms and standards that determine the procedure for the construction of urban infrastructure facilities, as well as the features of the complex structure of the organization of such documentation, containing nesting, contradictions, mutual references, etc., are analyzed. The basic principles of creating ontologies, key elements, query options are described on the example of the problem of modeling objects of the architectural and ecological environment of a city. The classes of urban planning objects are defined. The criteria for the quality of the urban environment are formulated. An ontological knowledge base has been developed to support decision-making in architectural design, containing the classes of urban objects “park”, “shopping center”, “school”, “buildings”, etc. The ontology is filled with information. The program “Protégé”, which has a free license, was chosen as the means of implementation. Neurocybernetic and informational approaches to the construction of decision support systems in industry-specific tasks based on the developed ontology are studied. 7. Primary studies of the issues of organizing the sustainable development of the urban environment through the implementation of projects for the integrated area development (IAD) were carried out. A comparison of the tasks of the IAD and sustainable development was carried out, on the basis of which an approach was proposed for the implementation of a decision support system to achieve the desired development indicators, taking into account the assessment of the quality of a given territory for the consumer as a key assessed indicator. A methodology has been developed for assessing the consumer attractiveness of a territory for calculating the proposed indicator. Methods for collecting, filtering and processing information about the objects of the territory, presented in open sources, have been developed. Algorithms for assessing the infrastructural provision of real estate objects and calculating assessments of their attractiveness have been developed. Estimates of attractiveness were carried out for various variants of IAD for an urban district (using the example of Volgograd). 8. More than twenty scientific papers have been prepared in the process of project research of the first stage. 12 of which have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and peer-reviewed collections of international conferences, including two publications indexed by Web of Science and Scopus at the time of submission of the report of the current period. 20 reports were made at all-Russian and international scientific conferences in Russia and abroad, including five plenary ones.

 

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Annotation of the results obtained in 2023
The following scientific results were obtained during the second stage of the project research: 1. Research has been carried out related to improving approaches to assessing the state of urban infrastructure using methods for recognizing objects in the processes under study on frames of a video stream captured by city video surveillance cameras and Earth remote sensing equipment in high resolution. An information model is proposed for structuring information about recognized objects. The possibility of categorizing quantitative assessments for various tasks of analyzing the balance of urban systems is considered. 2. Issues of formalizing knowledge for assessing the visual environment of a city, assessing the climate-ecological state and sound landscape are considered for the first time. An ontology was chosen as a formal model for representing knowledge, ensuring the integration of heterogeneous information and the ability to automate its processing. Models for the distribution of pollutants in urban areas and models for the formation of a favorable sensory landscape have been developed. Such models can be used to obtain additional information for the formation of rules in intelligent decision support systems for transforming the urban environment. 3. An approach to forecasting the needs of city residents and justifying the requirements for urban infrastructure is proposed. Software based on methods of spatial data analysis for solving problems of urban area management and urban planning, including analysis of the city territory occupied by objects of different categories, has been implemented. The implementation of the proposed approach was tested using the example of calculating the areas occupied by industrial facilities. 4. Existing approaches to generative design in the field of urban planning, which will allow iterative analysis and consideration of many factors such as topography, climatic conditions, people flows, transport networks and other parameters to develop the best urban planning solutions for a specific area of the territory were studied. Issues of using ontological engineering to create formal descriptions and knowledge representation models about urban planning that combine information about the physical environment, infrastructure, public places, transport networks, etc. are considered. The prospects for combining generative design and ontological engineering in urban planning for the automatic generation and evaluation of various urban planning options taking into account given parameters and goals are analyzed. 5. An approach has been developed that allows to create information and graphic models of an existing infrastructure facility at the operational stage, applicable for assessing the operational characteristics of the facility and analyzing possible improvements to buildings and structures, as well as the surrounding area, evacuation modeling and other promising scientific and practical problems. A method for developing a digital twin of a construction site and a section of an urban area is proposed, requirements for its implementation are formulated, and methods of using the developed models are described (including process simulation algorithms and tasks to be solved). 6. An approach to constructing “control panels” for presenting city development data has been implemented. The approach includes the preparation of statistical data and spatial information about the structure and state of the urban environment through pre-processing and integration of source data (including spatially referenced data). A list of indicators and formats for their visualization have been defined to support the analysis of the current situation with the development of an urbanized area for decision makers. The Dashboard service http://CityDashboard.ru/ has been developed and posted on the Internet, reflecting a set of source and model data on the development of the city of Volgograd. 7. The results of the second stage of project research, obtained during the reporting period, were published in 31 scientific papers in leading peer-reviewed journals and peer-reviewed collections of international conferences, including 11 articles in publications indexed by Web of Science and/or Scopus. 27 reports were made at all-Russian and international scientific conferences in Russia and abroad, five of which were invited, including two plenary reports at international conferences in India. In-person participation was taken in seven scientific and practical events, including in Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Tambov. Three detailed interviews with comments on the topics of project work and the procedure for grant support from the Russian Science Foundation were prepared for regional television channels of the Volgograd region, as part of information programs for the popularization of science in Russia.

 

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