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

本scc规划项目将利用现有的交通枢纽网络基础设施，设计一个以人为本的服务系统。用户将通过一个“应用程序”来导航复杂的建筑和城市空间。有了这款应用，目前有超过600万的视障人士将发现使用公共交通服务更加方便和高效。实现这一被称为智能和无障碍交通枢纽（SAT-Hub）的设计需要克服重大障碍，它将扩大个人的机动性，提供更大的行动自由，并为日常生活和社区参与开辟新的可能性。此外，SAT-Hub将为学生提供独特的跨学科培训机会，包括纽约市立城市学院、纽约市立曼哈顿社区学院和罗格斯大学STEM领域代表性不足的人群。SAT-Hub的规划将汇集几个技术领域：智能基础设施、传感和计算、交通规划、可达性和机动性。该项目有三个主要目标：(1)设计一个智能交通枢纽框架，用于试验、调试和完善智能服务；(2)通过定期社区参与，探索其用户社区的独特需求，加强与社区利益相关者的伙伴关系；(3)确定跨学科的综合研究主题，使解决方案能够成功部署。纽约城市大学和罗格斯大学将与我们的合作伙伴一起努力实现这些目标，这些合作伙伴包括纽约州和新泽西州的地方政府、地区运输机构和服务不足用户的服务机构。

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.