SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Shared MicromobIlity for affordabLe-accessIblE houSing (SMILIES)

SCC-CIVIC-PG 轨道 A：共享微出行，打造经济适用住房 (SMILIES)

• 批准号: 2044026
• 负责人: Suman Mitra
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-15 至 2021-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2044026&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; PG; Track; Shared

This project presents SMILIES (Shared MicromobIlity for affordabLe-accessIblE houSing): a community-engaged pilot project to improve the accessibility to jobs and essential activities for affordable housing communities in small- and mid-sized cities and rural areas by leveraging the explosive growth of shared micromobility (SMM) services. Affordable-accessible housing for working families is increasingly scarce in the U.S., in particular for small- and mid-sized cities and rural areas. As many small- and mid-sized cities offer only limited public transportation options, low-income residents living in those areas may struggle to access jobs, and critical goods and services. The SMILIES project will deploy SMMs in a mid-sized city to establish the business, operating, and sociodemographic conditions under which SMM can improve accessibility to jobs and essential activities (e.g., schools, shopping, recreation, and health care) for affordable housing communities. Defining such conditions will facilitate the development and evaluation of new, highly effective and cost-effective policies and strategies that will help cities and planning agencies leverage SMM while ensuring equitable distribution of these services.The overall objective of this project is to determine the degree of impact that SMM services can have on accessibility to jobs and essential activities, household transportation costs, and energy consumption for residents of affordable housing communities in small- and mid-sized cities, and rural areas. This objective will be accomplished by developing a community-engaged research-centered pilot project in the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas. The specific objective of this planning grant proposal is to strengthen collaborations with relevant stakeholders, solidify academic and civic team members’ roles, and refine the vision and plan for executing this research-centered pilot project. This project is transformative as it will leverage community engagement (residents, decision makers, operators) to first define acceptable conditions for SMM and then conduct real-world pilot deployments of SMM under the community-defined conditions.This project is in response to Track A – CIVIC Innovation Challenge - Communities and Mobility a collaboration with NSF and the Department of Energy.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.

该项目介绍了SMIMS(共享微型移动住房)：这是一个社区参与的试点项目，旨在利用共享微型移动(SMM)服务的爆炸性增长，改善中小城市和农村地区经济适用住房社区获得工作和开展基本活动的机会。在美国，为工薪家庭提供的负担得起的住房越来越稀缺，特别是在中小城市和农村地区。由于许多中小城市提供的公共交通选择有限，生活在这些地区的低收入居民可能很难获得就业机会，以及关键的商品和服务。SMILIES项目将在一个中等城市部署SMM，以建立SMM能够改善就业机会和基本活动(例如，学校、购物、娱乐和医疗保健)的商业、运营和社会人口条件，以满足经济适用住房社区的需求。定义这些条件将有助于制定和评估新的、高效和具有成本效益的政策和战略，这些政策和战略将帮助城市和规划机构利用SMM，同时确保这些服务的公平分配。该项目的总体目标是确定SMM服务对中小城市和农村地区经济适用房社区居民获得工作和基本活动、家庭交通成本和能源消耗的影响程度。这一目标将通过在阿肯色州史密斯堡开发一个社区参与的以研究为中心的试点项目来实现。这项规划拨款提案的具体目标是加强与相关利益攸关方的合作，巩固学术和民间团队成员的角色，并完善执行这一以研究为中心的试点项目的愿景和计划。该项目具有变革性，因为它将利用社区参与(居民、决策者、运营商)首先为SMM定义可接受的条件，然后在社区定义的条件下进行SMM的真实世界试点部署。该项目是对Track A-公民创新挑战-社区和移动性的响应，与NSF和能源部合作。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。