SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Meeting COVID and Household Affordability Challenges through Flex Streets and Dynamic Bicycle Transportation Infrastructure

该项目旨在通过发展灵活的交通信号基础设施，将灵活性和负担能力的需求与街道上的物理距离结合起来。目标是使用智能和互联的通信系统来最大限度地提高骑自行车、滑板车和其他微移动模式的人的吞吐量，并最大限度地减少(在需要时)在任何给定周期内一群人到达红灯时发生的物理接近。凭借安全高效的基础设施，微移动性具有满足大多数家庭出行需求的潜力，比拥有汽车更实惠，允许家庭减少支出或分配更多资金来满足住房需求，并且对8至80岁的人更具包容性，可以更充分地访问他们的社区。这项工作提议扩展全国唯一的自行车和驾驶模拟实验室，以创建动态、身临其境的环境，测试具有灵活街道和交通信号的新V2X通信，这些通信可以帮助市政当局根据不断变化的需求动态而快速地改变其公共通行权的使用，无论是由于流行病、灾难，还是仅仅是为了应对不断变化的社区偏好。该团队打算安装一个交通信号灯网络，并与社区利益相关者合作，在俄勒冈州波特兰的街道上测试这一新智能系统的效果。该团队包括来自两所大学的城市规划、交通工程和计算机科学的研究人员，下一代智能交通信号的私营供应商，以及来自波特兰(OR)和乌得勒支(荷兰)城市的交通工程师。这项工作的结果可以帮助以可扩展的方式将微移动性完全集成到交通信号系统中，并以帮助用户优化出行的方式向用户提供信息。该项目是对公民创新挑战计划的回应，A轨道-社区和移动性：提供更好的移动性选择，以解决住房负担能力和就业之间的空间不匹配-是NSF和能源部的合作。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。

This project seeks to merge the need for flexibility affordability, and physical distancing along our streets by developing flexible traffic signal infrastructure. The goal is to use smart and connected communication systems to maximize the throughput of people on bike, scooter, and other micromobility modes and minimize physical proximity (when needed) that happens if a group arrives at a red light in any given cycle. With safe and efficient infrastructure, micromobility has the potential to meet a majority of household trip needs, is more affordable than car ownership allowing households to either reduce expenses or allocate more to address housing needs, and is more inclusive for people aged eight to eighty to access their communities more fully.This work proposes to expand the nation’s only bicycle and driving simulation lab to create dynamic, immersive environments to test new V2X communication with flexible streets and traffic signals that can help municipalities dynamically and quickly change the use of their public right of way due to changing needs, whether due to pandemics, disasters, or just to respond to overall changing community preferences. The team intends to install a network of traffic signals and test the efficacy of this new smart system on streets in Portland, Oregon, in partnership with community stakeholders. The team includes researchers in urban planning, transportation engineering, and computer science from two universities, a private sector vendor of next generation smart traffic signals, and traffic engineers from the cities of Portland (OR) and Utrecht (Netherlands). The results of this work can help fully integrate micromobility into traffic signal systems, in a scalable way, that also gives information to users in ways that help them optimize their travel. This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program, Track A— Communities and Mobility: Offering Better Mobility Options to Solve the Spatial Mismatch Between Housing Affordability and Jobs—and is a collaboration between 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.