SCC-Planning: Towards Smart and Accessible Transportation Hub - Research Capacity Building and Community Engagement

这个SCC-规划项目将利用交通枢纽现有的网络基础设施，设计一个以人为中心的服务系统。用户将得到一个应用程序的帮助，以便在复杂的建筑和城市空间中导航。有了这款应用，今天人数超过600万的视障人士将发现使用公共交通服务更方便、更高效。要实现这一被称为智能无障碍交通枢纽(SAT-Hub)的设计，有许多重大障碍需要克服，它将扩大个人的移动性，提供更大的行动自由，并为日常生活和社区参与打开新的可能性。此外，SAT-Hub将为学生提供独特的跨学科培训机会，包括纽约州立大学城市学院、曼哈顿社区学院CUNY区和罗格斯大学STEM中代表性不足的人群。SAT-Hub的规划将汇集几个技术领域：智能基础设施、遥感和计算与交通规划、可访问性和移动性。该项目有三个主要目标：(1)设计智能交通枢纽框架，用于试验、调试和改进智能服务；(2)通过定期的社区参与，探索用户社区的独特需求，从而加强与社区利益相关者的伙伴关系；以及(3)确定跨学科的综合研究主题，以实现解决方案的成功部署。纽约城市大学和罗格斯大学将与来自纽约和新泽西州地方政府的合作伙伴、地区交通机构和为服务不足的用户提供服务的机构合作，努力实现这些目标。

This SCC-Planning project will be design a human-centered service system, using the existing cyber infrastructure of a transportation hub. Users will be assisted by an "app" for navigating complicated buildings and urban spaces. With this app, the visually impaired, whose numbers exceed 6 million individuals today, will find using public transportation services more convenient and efficient. There are significant hurdles to be overcome to realize this design, called the Smart and Accessible Transportation Hub (SAT-Hub), which will extend an individual's mobility, offer greater freedom of movement, and open new possibilities for daily living and community engagement. In addition, the SAT-Hub will provide unique, interdisciplinary training opportunities for students, including under-represented populations in STEM at CUNY City College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College and Rutgers.The planning for the SAT-Hub will bring together several technical areas: smart infrastructures and sensing and computing with transportation planning and accessibility and mobility. The project has three main objectives: (1) design a smart transportation hub framework for experimenting, debugging, and refining the smart service, (2) strengthen partnerships with community stakeholders by exploring the unique needs of their user communities through regular community engagement, and (3) identify cross-disciplinary, integrative research themes to enable the successful deployment of a solution. The City University of New York and Rutgers University will work to meet these objectives with our partners from local government in NY and in NJ, the regional transit agencies, and the service institutions for underserved users.