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Infrastructure Innovations for Rebuilding Nations
No full textSuccessful infrastructure development goes hand-in-hand with economic and social success and will be of utmost importance for Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities across Canada as they set their sights on recovery and prosperity in a post-COVID world. However, conversations around Indigenous energy infrastructure development in Canada take place against a backdrop of failures largely fostered by the “basic build” approach to infrastructure funding and construction. Basic build infrastructure often follows a “blanket approach” to funding, design, and construction, without accounting for a community’s unique needs and circumstances, which will be demonstrated by looking at a variety of case studies from across Canada. Although the basic build approach can sometimes allow for quicker infrastructure development with lower up-front costs, it often leads to negative project outcomes. The significant benefits associated with more innovative methods of design, on the other hand, far outweigh the obstacles—emphasizing the importance to shift away from the historically-used basic build approach towards more innovative methods. This presentation will explore best practices for infrastructure projects involving First Nations communities, pertaining to housing, energy, transportation, water, and public building infrastructure
The methodology for preparing annual population estimates for each community (census sub-division) in Canada
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Toward a More Holistic Understanding of an Arctic Climate System in Rapid Transition
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New Mobile Realities in Mature Staples Dependent Regions: Local Governments and Work Camps
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Building Resilient Rural Communities How 4-H contributes to rural human capital
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Crossing Streams: An Interdisciplinary Panel on Rural Water Panel - Indian Bay Ecosystem Corporation (IBEC)
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From Government Regulation to the Open Market: A Study on the Effects of Regulation Change in the Dairy Industry in Australia, Ireland, and Canada
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Technological Challenges for 6G-Networked ML-Trained UAV: Paralleling the Existing Supply Chain Management Tier Architecture for Canada\u27s NWT Beaufort Delta Region
No full textBeaufort Delta District Education Council (BDDEC) is the most remote educational body in the Canadian North. This educational body, comprised of eight remote communities and nine different schools, is taken as a case study for this research. Infrastructure enhancement and technical advancements have seen an increase in economic activities in the Beaufort Delta Region, and it is anticipated that this trend will continue in the future. BDDEC network regional school supplies are reliant on an orthodox supply chain management (SCM) system. Intelligent 6G networked, remotely controlled UAV SCM, paralleling the existing SCM, is proposed in this study. The research mathematical model uses Deep Q-Network (DQN), Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), hybrid Joint-DQN algorithms, and the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to train the UAV for an optimal path. The study investigates the UAV operational challenges in extreme and unpredictable weather conditions. All studies are Inuvik-centric, with the rest of the communities joining hands as receiving points for Supplies-IT support equipment. A derived mathematical model is based on [1] and is applied in extreme conditions supported by ML algorithms, mathematical expressions, and simulations. Expressions derived and results obtained are very promising, and (to the best researcher\u27s knowledge) it is the sole effort to address the pressing issue of a technology-based reliable SCM network tier architecture for the Beaufort Delta Region\u27s remote areas. [1] Heling Yuan, Yan Xu, Cuo Zhang. Robustly Coordinated Generation Dispatch and Load Shedding for Power Systems Against Transient Instability Under Uncertain Wind Power, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Volume: 37, Issue: 2, March 2022. Page(s): 1032 - 104