NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing technology-enabled mobility solutions (TN)

NSF 发动机开发奖：推进技术驱动的移动解决方案 (TN)

• 批准号: 2302896
• 负责人: Kevin Heaslip
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2302896&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Advancing

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on advancing transportation electrification and digitization, promising to revolutionize the future of mobility at a scale that will transform the movement of people and goods worldwide. The Tennessee Technology-Enabled Advanced Mobility Engine (TEAM Engine) seeks to place Tennessee, the region of service, in the vanguard of this transformation while reducing reliance on carbon-intensive energy sources, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and creating a more equitable transportation system. Tennessee aims to become the top state in the country for the electric vehicle (EV) supply chain. The state is well on its way to meeting this goal, with four automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers producing EVs and $12B in investment in EV projects since 2017. The team aims to create a thriving advanced mobility ecosystem that strengthens Tennessee's leadership in the innovation economy, safeguards the environment, and enhances quality of life for Tennesseans. TEAM Engine is a coalition of educational institutions; advanced industries; community and non-profit organizations; high-tech business incubators; accelerators and venture capital organizations; federal, state, and local government agencies; and economic development entities co-invested in the long-term advancement of Tennessee's innovation economy and the creation of mutual and reciprocal benefits for businesses, communities, and residents.The objective in the development phase is the creation of use-inspired research, translation into practice, a workforce, and an ecosystem of partners and stakeholders' strategies that culminate in a roadmap that supports and sustains our growth, with a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility woven throughout each strategy. The project will generate streams of use-inspired R&D outcomes to foster advanced mobility industries, leveraging existing - and exploring the creation of new and open testbeds and facilities and facilities to support collaborative research, foster industry and community engagement, de-risk promising technologies; and developing and implementing new incentives and reward mechanisms for innovators and entrepreneurs to recognize their contributions to use-inspired R&D and technology commercialization. TEAM Engine's partners have identified real-world R&D challenges to motivate efforts and investments beyond this award period, including lighter, safer, and more efficient EVs, batteries, faster and secure vehicle charging, mobility cybersecurity innovations, AI informed mobility for all, ground vehicle automation, and transportation informatics, and micromobility solutions as research areas of interest for the engine. The roadmap will include recommendations to the state to inform future investments and alignment of efforts and resources across the four strategic areas as TEAM Engine moves to become a full NSF Engine.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.

这一区域创新引擎发展奖的重点是推进交通电气化和数字化，承诺在一定程度上彻底改变未来的移动性，从而改变全球人员和货物的流动。田纳西州技术支持的先进移动引擎（TEAM引擎）旨在将服务区域田纳西州置于这一转型的前沿，同时减少对碳密集型能源的依赖，减少温室气体排放，并创建更公平的交通系统。田纳西州的目标是成为美国电动汽车（EV）供应链的顶级州。该州正朝着实现这一目标迈进，自2017年以来，已有四家汽车原始设备制造商生产电动汽车，并在电动汽车项目上投资了120亿美元。该团队旨在创建一个蓬勃发展的先进移动生态系统，加强田纳西州在创新经济中的领导地位，保护环境，提高田纳西州人的生活质量。TEAM Engine是教育机构的联盟;先进行业;社区和非营利组织;高科技企业孵化器;加速器和风险投资组织;联邦，州和地方政府机构;和经济发展实体共同投资于田纳西州创新经济的长期发展，为企业，社区，开发阶段的目标是创建以使用为灵感的研究，转化为实践，劳动力以及合作伙伴和利益相关者战略的生态系统，最终形成支持和维持我们增长的路线图，并承诺在每个战略中融入多样性，公平，包容性和可访问性。该项目将产生一系列以使用为导向的研发成果，以促进先进的移动行业，利用现有的-并探索创建新的和开放的试验台和设施，以支持合作研究，促进行业和社区参与，降低有前景的技术的风险;并为创新者和企业家制定和实施新的激励和奖励机制，以表彰他们对以使用为导向的研发和技术商业化的贡献。TEAM Engine的合作伙伴已经确定了现实世界的研发挑战，以激励在此奖项期之后的努力和投资，包括更轻，更安全，更高效的电动汽车，电池，更快，更安全的车辆充电，移动网络安全创新，AI通知所有人的移动性，地面车辆自动化和交通信息学，以及微移动解决方案作为引擎感兴趣的研究领域。该路线图将包括向国家提出的建议，以告知未来的投资以及在TEAM Engine成为完整的NSF Engine时在四个战略领域的努力和资源的调整。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。