SCC-Planning: Plan an Integrated Active Travel and Green Infrastructure System for Mental Wellbeing in Disadvantaged Communities through Crowdsourcing Technology

该研究项目的目的是在弗雷斯诺的加州州立大学建立一个多学科的研究团队，研究如何通过结合众包技术和传统的调查问卷和访谈，更好地规划积极的旅行和绿色基础设施，以改善居民的心理健康。这项研究将重点关注加利福尼亚州弗雷斯诺贫困社区的居民。本研究旨在从几个方面为该领域和社会做出贡献。首先，这项研究的结果将促进对城市基础设施、人们的出行和公园使用行为与公共健康，特别是心理健康之间的关系的理解。其次，这项研究将能够为困扰美国许多城市的健康和基础设施不平等问题提出城市政策解决方案，特别是那些中小城市中的弱势社区。第三，该项目将支持加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校的一个强大的跨学科研究团队，该大学是一所为少数族裔服务的机构，也是联邦指定的拉美裔服务机构。除了这个研究项目，研究团队将通过持续的社区参与和学生培训来促进地方倡议，以促进公共健康和社会公平。这个研究项目将使该团队能够建立一个跨学科的社会技术研究团队，能够使用众包技术和传统调查和采访相结合的方式来调查活跃的旅行与绿色基础设施和精神健康之间的联系。众包技术将允许研究团队以实时方式在更精细的空间尺度上收集数据。还将开发一个在线数据库，以存储将通过众包技术收集的实时数据。该小组还将与当地民选官员和工作人员以及所研究社区的居民进行接触和访谈。访谈将帮助他们了解这些关于如何改善被研究社区活跃的旅行和绿色基础设施的观点。将设计一个公共讲习班，以进一步扩大参与。

The purpose of this research project is to develop a multidisciplinary research team at the California State University, Fresno to study how active travel and green infrastructures can be better planned to improve residents' mental wellbeing through a combination of crowdsourcing technology and traditional survey questionnaires and interviews. The study will focus on residents in disadvantaged communities in Fresno, California. This study aims to contribute to the field and the society in several ways. First, the findings of this study will advance understanding of the relationship between urban infrastructure, people's travel and park use behavior, and public health, particularly mental health. Second, this study will be able to propose urban policy solutions to health and infrastructure inequalities that plague many American cities, particularly those disadvantaged communities in small- and medium-sized cities. Third, this project will support a strong interdisciplinary research team at the California State University Fresno, a minority-serving institution and a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution. In addition to this research project, the research team will facilitate local initiatives to promote public health and social equity through continuing community engagement and student training.This research project will allow the group to build an interdisciplinary, socio-technical research team that is able to use a combination of crowdsourcing technology and traditional survey and interview to investigate the connections between active travel and green infrastructure and mental wellbeing. The crowdsourcing technology will allow the research team to collect data at finer spatial scales in a real-time fashion. An online database will also be developed to store the real-time data that will be collected through the crowdsourcing technology. The team will also engage and interview local elected officials and staff as well as residents in the studied communities. The interview will help them to understand these perspectives regarding how the active travel and green infrastructure in studied communities can be improved. A public workshop will be designed to further to broaden engagement.