SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Community Based Ride-Hail Pilot: One Car, Multiple Opportunities

几十年的证据表明，汽车准入在劳动力市场上提供了显著的优势。然而，对许多人来说，汽车在经济上是遥不可及的。该项目建议创建一个基于社区的网约车计划，以更好地将社区与机会联系起来。该项目团队的社区合作伙伴组织Vehicles for Change(VFC)将为居住在巴尔的摩的低收入、无车个人提供车辆补贴。作为回报，获奖者将为其他无车的巴尔的摩居民提供每周一次的乘车服务，以获得就业和基本服务。该计划扩大了VFC现有的车辆补贴计划和社区内的联系。这一试点将使VFC能够将多人而不是单个家庭连接到他们分发的每一辆汽车的基本服务。如果项目团队能够为这一试点提供50辆汽车，该项目可以让数百名居民获得就业、医疗保健和教育机会。该项目将使用对计划司机和乘客的原始调查数据，以及由等待名单上的人组成的控制组来评估社区叫车的成功程度。衡量成功的标准将包括司机、乘客和等待名单上的个人的就业和收入数据等。这个项目的目标是评估一个以社区为基础的网约车项目的可行性，该项目的目标是评估一个以社区为基础的网约车项目的可行性，该项目旨在评估一个以社区为基础的网约车项目的可行性，该项目为低收入居民提供就业和其他基本服务。该项目计划评估这一计划对司机和骑手的经济和非经济利益。对于司机，项目团队计划采用小组调查来评估参与该计划的短期和中期影响，并将结果与从社区合作伙伴网络中抽取的对照组进行比较。该团队将通过对司机的采访和对乘客的调查来加强小组调查，以提供对社区叫车计划的定性和可量化影响的深入了解，从而为可扩展和可转移的计划提供最佳实践。该项目由公民创新挑战计划Track A.社区和移动性支持：通过NSF和能源汽车运输部办公室的合作，提供更好的移动性选择，以解决住房负担能力和工作之间的空间不匹配问题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Decades of evidence suggests that car access provides significant advantages in the labor market. Yet for many, cars are financially out of reach. This project proposes to create a community-based ride-hail program to better connect communities with opportunities. The project team's community partner organization, Vehicles for Change (VFC), will subsidize vehicles to low-income, car-less individuals living in Baltimore. In return, recipients will provide a number of weekly rides to other car-less Baltimore residents to access employment and essential services. The program expands VFC’s existing vehicle subsidy program and connections within the community. This pilot will enable VFC to connect multiple people—rather than single households—to essential services for every car they distribute. If the project team can provide 50 cars for this pilot, the project can enable hundreds of residents to access jobs, healthcare, and educational opportunities. The project will evaluate the success of community ride-hail using original survey data of program drivers and riders, as well as a control group comprised of those on the waiting list to receive a vehicle from VFC. Measures of success would include employment and earnings data—among others—for drivers, riders, and wait-listed individuals. Program evaluation will significantly advance knowledge by assessing whether the effects of car access could be “multiplied” by linking subsidized car ownership to a low-cost ride-hail service for other car-less people.The goal of this project is to assess the viability of a community-based ride-hail program that connects low-income residents to jobs and other essential services. This project plans to evaluate the economic and non- economic benefits of this program for both drivers and riders. For drivers, the project team plans to employ a panel- survey to assess the short- and medium-term effects of participating in this program, and compare the results with a control group drawn from the community partners’ networks. The team will augment the panel surveys with interviews with drivers and surveys of riders to provide a robust understanding of both qualitative and quantifiable effects of a community ride-hail program to inform best practices for scalable and transferable programs. 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.