SCC-CIVIC-FA Track A: A Community-Based Framework to Develop Shared Micromobility for Affordable-Accessible Housing (SMILIES)

SCC-CIVIC-FA 轨道 A：基于社区的框架，为经济适用住房开发共享微交通 (SMILIES)

• 批准号: 2133379
• 负责人: Suman Mitra
• 金额: $ 100万
• 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: 2021-11-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2133379&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; FA; Track; Community

This project presents SMILIES (Shared MicromobIlity for affordabLe-accessIblE houSing): a community-engaged pilot project to improve accessibility to jobs and essential services for residents of affordable housing communities by leveraging the explosive growth of shared micromobility services (SMM). SMM includes community usage of bikes and scooters, including electric ('e') versions. Affordable-accessible housing is increasingly scarce in the U.S., particularly in small and mid-sized cities in rural areas. As these cities offer only limited public transportation options, low-income residents living in those areas may struggle to access jobs and essential services. Thus, transportation solutions that consider but do not rely on transit to improve the accessibility of low-income workers in small and mid-sized cities in rural areas should be investigated. SMM is emerging as a popular mode for recreation in large metropolitan areas but has yet to be leveraged as an innovative solution for jobs-housing transportation in affordable housing communities. The proposed SMM pilot project generated through community engagement will fill this critical gap by quantifying the impact of SMM on accessibility to jobs and essential activities for affordable housing communities. This contribution is significant because it would introduce strategies and policies to guide local governments, community champions, and SMM operators in efficient management of SMM services while ensuring the benefits are available and accessible to low-income residents, ultimately promoting social equity. The overall objective of this project is to design and evaluate an SMM system for affordable housing communities through a community-engaged research-centered pilot project. This objective will be accomplished through a Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) methodology, supported with quantifiable models to estimate the impacts of SMM on household travel and costs as well as the latent demand for SMM services. The CBPAR team for this project includes diverse stakeholders from universities, public planning and transportation agencies, local businesses, and SMM vendors. The proposed research is transformative as it will leverage community engagement to first design a community-centered SMM system and then conduct real-world pilot deployments under community-defined conditions. The pilot is to be deployed in Fort Smith, Arkansas, a mid-sized city with high incidents of poverty and racial diversity, and a history of transportation challenges centered on access to jobs and essential services attributable to a lack of public transit. This project is part of the CIVIC Innovation Challenge, which is a collaboration of NSF, Department of Energy Vehicle Technology Office, Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate and Federal Emergency Management Agency.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SMILIES（共享微移动性经济适用房）：一个社区参与的试点项目，通过利用共享微移动服务（SMM）的爆炸性增长，改善经济适用房社区居民的就业和基本服务的可及性。SMM包括社区使用的自行车和踏板车，包括电动（'e'）版本。在美国，负担得起的住房越来越稀缺，特别是在农村地区的中小城市。由于这些城市只提供有限的公共交通选择，生活在这些地区的低收入居民可能难以获得工作和基本服务。因此，应研究考虑但不依赖过境的交通解决方案，以改善农村地区中小城市低收入工人的无障碍环境。SMM正在成为大都市地区流行的娱乐模式，但尚未被用作经济适用房社区工作住房交通的创新解决方案。通过社区参与产生的拟议SMM试点项目将通过量化SMM对负担得起的住房社区获得就业和基本活动的影响来填补这一关键空白。这一贡献意义重大，因为它将引入战略和政策，指导地方政府、社区倡导者和SMM运营商有效管理SMM服务，同时确保低收入居民能够获得福利，最终促进社会公平。该项目的总体目标是通过一个社区参与的以研究为中心的试点项目，为经济适用住房社区设计和评估SMM系统。这一目标将通过以社区为基础的预防性行动研究方法来实现，并辅之以可量化的模型，以估计SMM对家庭旅行和费用的影响以及对SMM服务的潜在需求。该项目的CBPAR团队包括来自大学、公共规划和交通机构、当地企业和SMM供应商的各种利益相关者。拟议的研究是变革性的，因为它将利用社区参与，首先设计一个以社区为中心的SMM系统，然后在社区定义的条件下进行真实世界的试点部署。该试点将部署在阿肯色州的史密斯堡，这是一个中等规模的城市，贫困和种族多样性的发生率很高，并且由于缺乏公共交通，交通挑战的历史集中在获得就业机会和基本服务方面。该项目是CIVIC创新挑战赛的一部分，该挑战赛由NSF、能源汽车技术办公室、国土安全部科学技术局和联邦应急管理局合作。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。