SCC-Civic-PG Track A:Flexible Mobility-as-a-Service to Improve Post-Pandemic Regional Sustainability

该项目的愿景是鼓励可持续的移动习惯，可以利用新的移动服务。关于新兴的移动服务（如乘车和自行车共享）是对公共交通的补充还是竞争，存在巨大的争论。该项目认为，在拥挤的大都市区（例如波士顿）的城市核心区试验特定形式的移动即服务（MaaS）将是有益的，其中公共交通可以专注于高质量的“大众”交通，同时允许新兴的移动服务补充和投入公共交通。现代信通技术可以为旅行者提供更丰富的、适合个人情况和负担能力的移动替代方案。该项目设想了一个试点计划，为目标社区的低收入工人提供补贴成本的移动服务包。然后，低收入工人可以更多地使用主动流动（具有健康益处）和多模式共享服务，以获得更多机会。MaaS模式还为COVID恢复计划提供了切实的好处，其中来自低需求路线的巴士可以重新定位，以更好地满足高流量路线的需求，而不会消除低流量路线上无车个人的选择。该项目希望了解不同的非汽车服务的偏好如何随时间，环境和负担能力而变化，为了将我们的发现扩展到长期MaaS模型的设计中，该模型可以扭转波士顿地铁汽车拥有量上升的趋势。该项目已经分析了公共交通乘客量（来自MBTA和Transit应用程序）和通勤流量（来自美国人口普查局），以初步确定最适合试点的社区和公交线路。将招募沿着已确定公交线路的低收入通勤者参加一项声明偏好调查，该调查将用于确定支付意愿和转向替代（非私家车）移动服务的意愿。这些替代方案包括重叠的通勤铁路路线（例如费尔蒙特线），自行车共享和按需移动（EZRide/私人班车/乘车）。根据调查结果，本项目将设计一个随机对照试验，为目标个人提供代金券计划。补贴水平甚至可以根据Transit应用程序提供的实时高峰时段公共交通拥挤数据进行定期调整。MaaS代金券将在试点阶段分发给新员工，并将收集两个月的实时移动选择数据。最后，该项目将评估在个人层面（例如可持续的移动选择和增加可达性）和系统层面（例如降低高流量公交线路过度拥挤的风险和减少汽车使用）提供灵活的MaaS的有效性。该项目由CIVIC创新挑战计划Track A支持。社区和流动性：通过NSF和能源部车辆运输办公室之间的合作，提供更好的移动选择，以解决住房负担能力和就业之间的空间不匹配。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project's vision is to encourage sustainable mobility habits that can take advantage of new mobility services. There are enormous debates over whether emerging mobility services (like ride-hailing and bikesharing) are complementary or competitive to public transit. This project believes it would be beneficial to experiment with specific forms of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) in the urban core of a congested metropolitan area (e.g. Boston), wherein public transit can focus on high-quality “mass” transit while allowing for emerging mobility services to complement and feed into public transit. Modern ICTs can provide travelers with a richer set of mobility alternatives that suit individual circumstances and affordability. This project envisions a pilot program that provides low-income workers in targeted communities with mobility service bundles at subsidized costs. Low-income workers can then increase their use of active mobility (which has health benefits) and multi-modal shared services to access more opportunities. The MaaS model also provides tangible benefits for the COVID recovery plan, wherein buses from low-demand routes can be repurposed to better match demand on high-volume routes without eliminating options for car-less individuals on the low-volume routes. This project hopes to learn how preferences for different non-car services vary by time, circumstance, and affordability, in order to extend our findings to the design of a long-term MaaS model that can reverse the trend of rising car ownership in Metro Boston.This project has already analyzed public transit ridership (from MBTA and Transit app) and commuting flows (from US Census Bureau) to preliminarily identify communities and bus routes that are most suitable for the pilot. Low-income commuters along identified bus routes will be recruited to participate in a stated preference survey, which will used to identify willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-switch for alternative (non-private-car) mobility services. Such alternatives include overlapping commuter rail routes (e.g. Fairmount Line), bikesharing, and mobility-on-demand (EZRide/ private shuttles/ ride-hailing). Based on the survey, this project will design a randomized controlled trial that provides voucher programs for targeted individuals. Subsidy levels could even be adjusted periodically based on real-time peak-hour public transit overcrowding data provided by Transit app. MaaS vouchers will be distributed among recruits during the pilot phase, and data on real-time mobility choices will be collected for two months. Finally, this project will evaluate the effectiveness of providing flexible MaaS at both the individual level (e.g. sustainable mobility choices and increased accessibility) and the system level (e.g. lower risk of overcrowding on high-volume bus routes and lower car use). This project is supported by the CIVIC Innovation Challenge program Track A. Communities and Mobility: Offering Better Mobility Options to Solve the Spatial Mismatch Between Housing Affordability and Jobs through a collaboration between NSF and the Department of Energy Vehicle Transportation Office.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.