Exploring a Research Network of Urban Sustainability Observatories via Data-Enabled University-Community Partnerships

通过数据支持的大学-社区合作伙伴关系探索城市可持续发展观测站的研究网络

• 批准号: 1929927
• 负责人: Harvey Miller
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1929927&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Exploring; Research; Network; Urban; Sustainability

One of the existential problems facing civilization in the 21st century is mobility. A crowded urban planet must determine how to move people through cities and provide access to opportunities in an environmentally-friendly, socially-just and economically efficient manner. Both due to these concerns and the availability of new communication and location-aware technologies, we are witnessing the introduction of disruptive mobility services in many communities. However, this is often happening in an ad-hoc, bottom-up manner: examples include ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft, dockless bike-sharing and scooters. Consequently, researchers, public officials and other stakeholders are struggling to keep up with these innovations and understand their potential impacts on equity, the environment and economic performance. Thankfully, these new mobility technologies generate a large amount of "digital exhaust:" incidental data that is a byproduct of their use. Also, urban processes are increasingly digitized, urban environments are increasingly sensed, and people contribute to this urban data maelstrom through social media and citizen science. We can leverage these new data sources to understand the impacts of new mobility technologies and services on urban sustainability. We will conduct a two-day interactive workshop in Columbus, Ohio in July 2019 to engage community-based stakeholders and a diverse group of researchers in a facilitated dialogue on how to use these data to generate transformative urban sustainability science and actionable knowledge for evidence-based policy.The workshop will focus on the opportunities and challenges of building and maintaining an urban sustainability data observatory (USDO): technological and organizational system for persistent collection, cleaning, fusing, analysis and sharing of urban data. A USDO can enable new measures and analyses of progress towards sustainability over time. It can also leverage real-world events to develop retrospective and prospective natural and quasi-experimental designs that provide stronger support for causality than cross-sectional designs. The workshop will focus on two specific cities in which USDOs are currently being planned and are also experiencing the introduction of disruptive mobility technologies and services, Columbus, Ohio and Portland, Oregon. In addition, the workshop will seek to develop a convergent sustainable urban systems (SUS) framework that can support the development of a network of urban sustainability data observatories and lay the foundation for a new kind of data-driven, comparative observatory science guided by SUS theories of change. A key principle that will be explored is the role of partnerships among researchers, public entities and community stakeholders in co-developing research questions that advance an understanding of SUS. Organizers envision a comparative approach that generates more nuanced, context-sensitive approaches to evidence-based policy, facilitates the sharing of best practices, and ultimately leads to a deeper understanding of the principles underlying urban sustainability.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

21世纪文明面临的一个生存问题是流动性。 一个拥挤的城市星球必须决定如何以环境友好、社会公正和经济有效的方式使人们在城市中流动并提供机会。 由于这些问题以及新的通信和位置感知技术的可用性，我们正在目睹许多社区引入颠覆性的移动服务。 然而，这通常是以自下而上的方式发生的：例如Uber和Lyft等叫车服务，无码头自行车共享和踏板车。因此，研究人员、政府官员和其他利益攸关方正在努力跟上这些创新的步伐，了解它们对公平、环境和经济绩效的潜在影响。值得庆幸的是，这些新的移动技术产生了大量的“数字废气“：附带的数据，这是他们使用的副产品。 此外，城市进程越来越数字化，城市环境越来越敏感，人们通过社交媒体和公民科学为这一城市数据漩涡做出贡献。 我们可以利用这些新的数据源来了解新的移动技术和服务对城市可持续发展的影响。 我们将于2019年7月在俄亥俄州的哥伦布举办为期两天的互动研讨会，邀请社区利益相关者和多元化的研究人员就如何利用这些数据生成变革性的城市可持续发展科学和可操作的知识，以促进循证政策进行对话。研讨会将重点关注建立和维护城市可持续发展数据观测站（USDO）的机遇和挑战：持续收集、清理、融合、分析和共享城市数据的技术和组织系统。 一个USDO可以使新的措施和分析的进展，随着时间的推移，可持续性。 它还可以利用现实世界的事件来开发回顾性和前瞻性的自然和准实验设计，为因果关系提供比横断面设计更强的支持。该研讨会将重点关注美国国防部目前正在规划并正在引入颠覆性移动技术和服务的两个特定城市，即俄亥俄州的哥伦布和俄勒冈州的波特兰。此外，讲习班将寻求制定一个趋同的可持续城市系统框架，以支持城市可持续性数据观测站网络的发展，并为一种以可持续城市系统变化理论为指导的新型数据驱动的比较观测科学奠定基础。将探讨的一个关键原则是研究人员、公共实体和社区利益攸关方之间的伙伴关系在共同开发促进对单一卫生系统理解的研究问题方面的作用。 组织者设想了一种比较的方法，产生更细致入微的，对环境敏感的方法，以证据为基础的政策，促进最佳实践的分享，并最终导致对城市可持续性的基本原则的更深入的理解。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。