Resilient Solutions Activities

The focus of the SW-IFL Resilient Solutions team activities are:

• Discovery components

  • Indoor & outdoor environments

  • Travel behavior

  • Governance and plan integration

• Discovery components

  • Indoor & outdoor environments

  • Travel behavior

  • Governance and plan integration

• Advisory component to co-develop resilient solutions

Several initial testbed sites have been selected: 

• Oracle Road Corridor, Tucson, Arizona
• Jackson Street Site, Phoenix, Arizona
• Desert Wells, Mesa, Arizona
• Flagstaff, Arizona

Created the Arizona Manufactured Housing Research Dataset that covers the Arizona urban corridor and includes landcover data for assessment of heat vulnerability across housing types and tenures.

New combined Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ (PIRS™) for Heat and Plan Quality Evaluation for Heat Resilience, called Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience, being deployed in several cities across urban corridor. Reports delivered to Tucson, Tempe, and Phoenix in 2023 Q4. Flagstaff, Mesa, Casa Grande, and Nogales reports are being finalized.

2024 Discovery Fellows and HeatMappers

The SW-IFL engages students and provides them with high-quality, relevant knowledge capable of spurring and guiding responses to environmental concerns through the Discovery Fellows and HeatMappers programs for 2024. Discovery Fellows are composed of community fellows that will start in spring 2024 and focus on embedded support to observations and testbeds in Flagstaff, Phoenix, and Mesa. Undergraduate students will begin their activities as HeatMappers in Summer 2024 and will focus on observations, modeling and resilient solutions at the Flagstaff, Phoenix, and Tucson sites.