SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Shared MicromobIlity for affordabLe-accessIblE houSing (SMILIES)

本项目提出了SMILIES（共享微型交通便利住房）：这是一个社区参与的试点项目，旨在利用共享微型交通服务的爆炸式增长，改善中小城市和农村地区经济适用住房社区就业和基本活动的可及性。美国工薪家庭负担得起的住房越来越少，尤其是在中小城市和农村地区。由于许多中小城市提供的公共交通选择有限，生活在这些地区的低收入居民可能很难找到工作，获得重要的商品和服务。SMILIES项目将在一个中等城市部署SMM，以建立商业、运营和社会人口条件，在这些条件下，SMM可以改善经济适用住房社区的就业和基本活动（例如学校、购物、娱乐和医疗保健）的可及性。确定这些条件将有助于制定和评估新的、高效的和具有成本效益的政策和战略，这些政策和战略将有助于城市和规划机构利用城市管理，同时确保这些服务的公平分配。该项目的总体目标是确定SMM服务对中小城市和农村地区经济适用住房社区居民获得工作和基本活动的可及性、家庭交通成本和能源消耗的影响程度。这一目标将通过在阿肯色州史密斯堡市开展一个社区参与的以研究为中心的试点项目来实现。这项计划拨款提案的具体目标是加强与相关利益相关者的合作，巩固学术和公民团队成员的角色，并完善执行这项以研究为中心的试点项目的愿景和计划。该项目具有变革性，因为它将利用社区参与（居民、决策者、运营商），首先定义SMM的可接受条件，然后在社区定义的条件下进行SMM的实际试点部署。这个项目是响应轨道A -公民创新挑战-社区和流动性与美国国家科学基金会和能源部合作。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。

This project presents SMILIES (Shared MicromobIlity for affordabLe-accessIblE houSing): a community-engaged pilot project to improve the accessibility to jobs and essential activities for affordable housing communities in small- and mid-sized cities and rural areas by leveraging the explosive growth of shared micromobility (SMM) services. Affordable-accessible housing for working families is increasingly scarce in the U.S., in particular for small- and mid-sized cities and rural areas. As many small- and mid-sized cities offer only limited public transportation options, low-income residents living in those areas may struggle to access jobs, and critical goods and services. The SMILIES project will deploy SMMs in a mid-sized city to establish the business, operating, and sociodemographic conditions under which SMM can improve accessibility to jobs and essential activities (e.g., schools, shopping, recreation, and health care) for affordable housing communities. Defining such conditions will facilitate the development and evaluation of new, highly effective and cost-effective policies and strategies that will help cities and planning agencies leverage SMM while ensuring equitable distribution of these services.The overall objective of this project is to determine the degree of impact that SMM services can have on accessibility to jobs and essential activities, household transportation costs, and energy consumption for residents of affordable housing communities in small- and mid-sized cities, and rural areas. This objective will be accomplished by developing a community-engaged research-centered pilot project in the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas. The specific objective of this planning grant proposal is to strengthen collaborations with relevant stakeholders, solidify academic and civic team members’ roles, and refine the vision and plan for executing this research-centered pilot project. This project is transformative as it will leverage community engagement (residents, decision makers, operators) to first define acceptable conditions for SMM and then conduct real-world pilot deployments of SMM under the community-defined conditions.This project is in response to Track A – CIVIC Innovation Challenge - Communities and Mobility a collaboration with 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.