SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Community Based Ride-Hail Pilot: One Car, Multiple Opportunities

几十年的证据表明，汽车在劳动力市场上提供了显著的优势。然而，对许多人来说，汽车在经济上是遥不可及的。该项目建议创建一个以社区为基础的叫车计划，以更好地将社区与机会联系起来。该项目团队的社区合作组织“车辆变革”（vehicle for Change，简称VFC）将向居住在巴尔的摩的低收入、无车人群提供车辆补贴。作为回报，受助人每周将为其他没有车的巴尔的摩居民提供若干次乘车服务，让他们获得就业机会和基本服务。该计划扩大了VFC现有的车辆补贴计划和社区内的联系。这一试点将使VFC能够将多个人（而不是单个家庭）与他们分配的每一辆汽车的基本服务联系起来。如果项目团队能为该试点项目提供50辆汽车，该项目将使数百名居民获得工作、医疗保健和教育机会。该项目将利用对项目司机和乘客的原始调查数据，以及由等待从VFC获得车辆的名单上的人组成的对照组，来评估社区叫车服务的成功。衡量成功的标准将包括司机、乘客和等候名单个人的就业和收入数据等。通过评估将有补贴的汽车所有权与其他无车人群的低成本叫车服务联系起来，是否可以“成倍”增加汽车使用的效果，项目评估将大大提高人们的认识。该项目的目标是评估以社区为基础的叫车计划的可行性，该计划将低收入居民与工作和其他基本服务联系起来。该项目计划评估该计划对司机和乘客的经济和非经济效益。对于司机，项目团队计划采用小组调查来评估参与该计划的短期和中期效果，并将结果与从社区合作伙伴网络中抽取的对照组进行比较。该团队将通过对司机的访谈和对乘客的调查来增加小组调查，从而对社区叫车计划的定性和可量化效果有一个强有力的了解，从而为可扩展和可转移的计划提供最佳实践。该项目由美国国家科学基金会和能源部车辆运输办公室合作的公民创新挑战项目Track a支持：社区和机动性：提供更好的机动性选择，解决住房负担能力和工作之间的空间不匹配。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。

Decades of evidence suggests that car access provides significant advantages in the labor market. Yet for many, cars are financially out of reach. This project proposes to create a community-based ride-hail program to better connect communities with opportunities. The project team's community partner organization, Vehicles for Change (VFC), will subsidize vehicles to low-income, car-less individuals living in Baltimore. In return, recipients will provide a number of weekly rides to other car-less Baltimore residents to access employment and essential services. The program expands VFC’s existing vehicle subsidy program and connections within the community. This pilot will enable VFC to connect multiple people—rather than single households—to essential services for every car they distribute. If the project team can provide 50 cars for this pilot, the project can enable hundreds of residents to access jobs, healthcare, and educational opportunities. The project will evaluate the success of community ride-hail using original survey data of program drivers and riders, as well as a control group comprised of those on the waiting list to receive a vehicle from VFC. Measures of success would include employment and earnings data—among others—for drivers, riders, and wait-listed individuals. Program evaluation will significantly advance knowledge by assessing whether the effects of car access could be “multiplied” by linking subsidized car ownership to a low-cost ride-hail service for other car-less people.The goal of this project is to assess the viability of a community-based ride-hail program that connects low-income residents to jobs and other essential services. This project plans to evaluate the economic and non- economic benefits of this program for both drivers and riders. For drivers, the project team plans to employ a panel- survey to assess the short- and medium-term effects of participating in this program, and compare the results with a control group drawn from the community partners’ networks. The team will augment the panel surveys with interviews with drivers and surveys of riders to provide a robust understanding of both qualitative and quantifiable effects of a community ride-hail program to inform best practices for scalable and transferable programs. This project is supported by the CIVIC Innovation Challenge program Track A. Communities and Mobility: Offering Better Mobility Options to Solve the Spatial Mismatch Between Housing Affordability and Jobs through a collaboration between NSF and the Department of Energy Vehicle Transportation Office.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.