Scholars Award: US Public-Private Partnerships in Bicycle Sharing Systems

学者奖：美国自行车共享系统的公私合作

• 批准号: 1734665
• 负责人: Robert Rhew
• 金额: $ 15.09万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1734665&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholars; Award; US; Public; Private

This award supports empirical research to examine the planning of bikeshare (i.e., bicycle-sharing) systems in the United States, focusing on Philadelphia (PA), Austin (TX), and Oakland (CA). Bikeshare systems are typically partnerships between municipalities and provider firms in which a network of automatic docking stations is available to the public on a subscription basis. They are one of the fastest-growing transportation technologies in America, with currently over 200 systems in operation or planned, and they have become enormously popular as part of a sustainable urban development strategy. However, their users are disproportionately white and affluent, even in diverse cities. The goal of this project is to explain these disparities through an analysis of the socio-spatial shaping of bikeshare systems by a network of actors; the network includes contracting firms, planners, city officials, and consultants. The results of this project will have substantial policy relevance for urban planning, public administration, and transportation engineering. Research products include the presentation of findings at academic and professional conferences and to the public at large, publication of findings in key peer-reviewed journals and a monograph, journalistic articles and research briefs aimed at practitioners, the training of a graduate research assistant, and contributions of findings and collected data to organizations focused on sustainable mobility and inclusive transportation policy.The main hypothesis of this research project is that the requirements of public-private partnerships embed spatial inequalities into the sociotechnical organization of bikeshare systems thereby limiting their capacity to act as a more generalized element of urban environmental governance. While many studies of the fast-growing sector of urban shared mobility systems focus on their technological novelty, this research foregrounds the social and political forces that work through such systems, with broad implications beyond bikeshare. Through interviews, site observation, GIS analysis, and archival research, the study pursues three main objectives. It will assess how data about existing social, economic, and spatial factors shape the technical process of bikeshare system design, particularly station location. It will also investigate the role of partnerships between governments and bikeshare providers in this shaping process, and its effect on the capacity to accommodate equity concerns. In addition, it will examine the planning, use, and evaluation of stations at the system edge, and the responses of other actors, including residents, businesses, institutions, and community organizations, to these stations.

该奖项支持实证研究，以研究美国的Bikeshare（即自行车共享）系统的规划，重点是费城（PA），奥斯汀（TX）和奥克兰（CA）。自行车系统通常是市政当局与提供商公司之间的合作伙伴关系，其中自动对接站网络以订阅方式向公众提供。它们是美国增长最快的运输技术之一，目前正在运营或计划中有200多个系统，并且作为可持续城市发展策略的一部分，它们已经非常受欢迎。但是，即使在不同的城市，他们的用户也不比例地白色和富裕。该项目的目的是通过分析参与者网络对骑自行车系统的社会空间塑造来解释这些差异。该网络包括承包公司，规划师，城市官员和顾问。该项目的结果将与城市规划，公共管理和运输工程具有实质性的政策相关。研究产品包括在学术和专业会议上介绍调查结果，并向公众介绍，在密钥同行评审期刊中介绍调查结果，以及旨在旨在研究生研究助理培训的旨在培训实践者的专着，新闻文章，新闻文章和研究摘要，以及对组织的贡献和收集到的公众运输政策的贡献。将空间不平等嵌入到了自行车系统的社会技术组织中，从而限制了它们成为城市环境治理更普遍的元素的能力。尽管许多关于城市共享流动系统快速发展领域的研究集中在其技术新颖性上，但这项研究推向了通过此类系统运行的社会和政治力量，其含义超出了Bikeshare。通过访谈，现场观察，GIS分析和档案研究，该研究实现了三个主要目标。它将评估有关现有社会，经济和空间因素的数据如何塑造自行车系统设计的技术过程，尤其是站点位置。它还将调查政府与自行车提供者之间在这种塑造过程中的合作伙伴关系的作用，及其对适应股权关注能力的影响。此外，它将检查系统边缘的电台的计划，使用和评估，以及其他参与者（包括居民，企业，机构和社区组织）对这些站点的反应。