SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Co-Creating Context-Sensitive Mobility Strategies for Advancing the Social and Economic Goals of Low-Income Communities

SCC-CIVIC-PG 轨道 A：共同制定情境敏感的出行策略，以推进低收入社区的社会和经济目标

• 批准号: 2044995
• 负责人: Susan Buchan
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: E4THEFUTURE, INC.
• 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: 2021-02-15 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2044995&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; PG; Track; Co

E4TheFuture and UC Berkeley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center are partnering to develop a mobility hub strategy to overcome spatial mismatch between low-to-moderate income (LMI) housing/jobs in Providence, Rhode Island and Blackstone River Valley. Limited public transit presents challenges in securing/maintaining meaningful employment for marginalized community members lacking personal transportation. This multi-phase project advances NSF’s mission to improve quality of life by enhancing LMI household mobility to jobs, healthcare, etc. Employing groundbreaking research to better understand LMI decision- making for transportation and job access, the project takes a non-prescriptive approach to community engagement. It develops a replicable process for co-creating mobility strategies through active community engagement, pairing mobility strategies with human services (e.g., mobility training, workforce development) to connect residents with jobs and/or apprenticeships. The project develops strategies to scale/sustain the project beyond the pilot and a design toolkit that documents engagement, research methods, and data analysis tools that other communities can employ. The project team is multidisciplinary and includes academic partners (Boston University, Brown University, and University of California Berkeley) and community organizations (Mobility Development, Building Futures RI, a workforce/apprenticeship development organization, and local affordable housing community based organizations Preservation of Affordable Housing, and NeighborWorks).This project employs a community-based participatory mixed-method research approach that responds to participant needs and reflects community desires, demonstrates a pathway to sustainability (longer-term financial viability of mobility business models) and develops a pilot evaluation model. The project combines qualitative (focus groups, listening sessions) and quantitative (survey, US Census) data to spatially analyze relationships among daily mobility challenges and existing transport systems, create mobility strategies and training materials, and develop a sustainable model and pilot evaluation. This project also has a significant spatial component, integrating participatory mapping procedures with qualitative data collection methods. Engagement frameworks, methods, data, and analysis tools developed as part of this initiative will inform future planning, pilot projects, mobility business models, and research. All materials will be available in a toolkit for use by other communities. This replicable strategy incorporates challenges impacting employment, which are often omitted from typical mobility assessments. Considering these daily struggles in the mobility hub design, the Stage 2 pilot will foster broader societal outcomes including: 1) Advancement of apprenticeships, employee attendance, job retention/creation (key metrics); 2) Participation of underrepresented populations; 3) Changes in modes used; 4) Vehicle miles traveled/air quality impacts; and, 5) Quality of life. 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.

E4 TheFuture和加州大学伯克利分校的交通可持续发展研究中心正在合作开发一个移动枢纽战略，以克服普罗维登斯，罗得岛和黑石河谷的中低收入（LMI）住房/工作之间的空间不匹配。有限的公共交通为缺乏个人交通工具的边缘化社区成员确保/维持有意义的就业带来了挑战。这个多阶段的项目推进了NSF的使命，即通过提高LMI家庭的就业、医疗等流动性来改善生活质量。 采用开创性的研究，以更好地了解交通和就业机会的LMI决策，该项目采取了非规范性的方法，以社区参与。它开发了一个可复制的过程，通过积极的社区参与，将移动战略与人类服务（例如，流动性培训，劳动力发展），以连接居民的工作和/或学徒。该项目制定战略，以扩大/维持项目超出试点和设计工具包，文件的参与，研究方法和数据分析工具，其他社区可以使用。 该项目团队是多学科的，包括学术合作伙伴（波士顿大学、布朗大学和加州伯克利大学）和社区组织（流动性发展，建设未来国际扶轮，劳动力/学徒发展组织，和当地经济适用房社区组织保护经济适用房，和NeighborWorks）。该项目采用基于社区的参与式混合方法研究方法，响应参与者的需求并反映社区的愿望，展示了可持续发展的途径（移动商业模式的长期财务可行性），并开发了一个试点评估模型。 该项目将定性（焦点小组，倾听会议）和定量（调查，美国人口普查）数据相结合，以空间分析日常交通挑战和现有交通系统之间的关系，创建移动战略和培训材料，并开发可持续模型和试点评估。 该项目还有一个重要的空间组成部分，将参与性绘图程序与定性数据收集方法相结合。作为该计划的一部分，开发的参与框架、方法、数据和分析工具将为未来的规划、试点项目、移动业务模式和研究提供信息。所有材料都将放在一个工具包中，供其他社区使用。 这一可推广的战略纳入了影响就业的挑战，而这些挑战往往被典型的流动性评估所忽略。考虑到移动枢纽设计中的这些日常斗争，第二阶段试点将促进更广泛的社会成果，包括：1）学徒制的进步，员工出勤率，就业保留/创造（关键指标）; 2）代表性不足的人群的参与; 3）使用模式的变化; 4）车辆行驶里程/空气质量影响;以及，5）生活质量。 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。