SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: MICOPP: Mobility Improvements to achieve transportation equity in Communities through joint Optimization of Public and Private community-based resources

传统工业城市在为所有居民创造一个公平的交通系统方面面临着许多障碍。俄亥俄州克利夫兰的情况就是如此。几十年来，由于人口减少、郊区化、工作中心远离中心城市、经济适用房集中在以种族隔离和集中贫困为特征的社区，克利夫兰曾经充满活力的公共交通系统已经减弱。这些因素的共同作用导致低收入家庭的交通不安全。该项目的愿景是利用现有的社区合作来解决空间不匹配问题（悖论奖），并结合新技术，利用公共和社区交通资产和资源，提高低收入城市社区的交通可及性、可负担性和安全性。在现有数据和研究成果的基础上，利用技术降低现有系统的成本并提高效率，该项目将确定系统中的瓶颈和低效率，以指导新的投资和资源分配，以动态地促进更好的交通通道，将经济适用房和就业机会联系起来。此外，该项目将在交通、人工智能、社会科学、网络物理系统、智慧城市和物联网应用等领域开展工作，促进低收入社区与就业、经济适用房和全方位服务之间的更好联系。该项目设想通过合作开发一种混合交通系统，称为“通过公共和私人社区资源的联合优化改善流动性，实现社区交通公平（MICOPP）”，该系统可能适用于其他受到城市扩张和人口下降挑战的城市社区。这一规划过程将涉及所有项目利益相关者的积极参与，以确保清楚地确定社区需求、可用资源以及在获取交通选择方面的用户和系统瓶颈。利用现有数据，将开发人工智能机制，在考虑安全性、可用性和可负担性约束的情况下，共同优化公共和社区交通资源，目标是最大限度地提高系统为社区服务的程度。将制定适当的衡量标准，以评价微型合作方案的有效性，并研究投资决策中的权衡。这个项目是响应公民创新挑战项目，轨道A -社区和流动性：提供更好的流动性选择来解决住房负担能力和工作之间的空间不匹配，是国家科学基金会和能源部之间的合作项目。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Legacy industrial cities face numerous barriers to creating an equitable transportation system for all residents. Such is the case of Cleveland, Ohio, whose once vibrant public transportation system has weakened amidst decades of population loss, suburbanization, the relocation of job hubs away from the central city, and the concentration of affordable housing in neighborhoods marked by segregation and concentrated poverty. The confluence of these factors translate into transportation insecurity for low income households. The vision for this project is to leverage an existing community collaboration tackling the spatial mismatch (Paradox Prize) together with new technologies to take advantage of both public and community-based transportation assets and resources for advancing transportation access, affordability, and security in low-income urban communities. Building on existing data and scholarship, and using technologies to reduce cost and increase efficiency in the current system, this project will identify bottle-necks and inefficiencies in the system to guide new investments and resource allocations to dynamically foster better transportation access, connecting affordable housing and employment opportunities. Additionally, this project will work across transportation, artificial intelligence, social science, cyber-physical systems, smart city, and IoT applications, leading to better connections between low-income communities and access to jobs, affordable housing and wraparound services. This project envisions a collaborative effort that will lead to the development of a hybrid transportation system called “Mobility Improvements to achieve transportation equity in Communities through joint Optimization of Public and Private community-based resources (MICOPP)”, with potential applicability to other urban communities challenged by sprawl and population decline. This planning process will involve active participation of all project stakeholders to make sure that the community needs, available resources, and user and systemic bottlenecks in accessing transportation choices are clearly identified. Using available data, artificial intelligence mechanisms will be developed to jointly optimize public and community-based transportation resources, given safety, availability and affordability constraints with the objective of maximizing the extent that the system serves the community. Appropriate metrics will be devised to evaluate the effectiveness of MICOPP and study the tradeoffs in investment decisions. 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.