SCC-PG: Equitable and Ubiquitous Converged Data & Transportation Services for Underserved Communities

该项目将规划出强大的研究能力。这项研究将集中在数据分割和运输服务上。它还将计划制定基础设施不平等的解决方案。它将利用田纳西大学及其社区合作伙伴之间牢固的现有关系。规划项目将在田纳西州的诺克斯维尔进行。诺克斯维尔是美国东南部的一个低密度中等城市。该项目是三个机构的合作项目。(1)田纳西大学是该州的旗舰大学和土地赠与大学。(2)诺克斯维尔社区发展公司在诺克斯县建造和维护经济适用房。(3)大诺克斯维尔联合之路为许多消除贫困的倡议提供资金和协调。诺克斯维尔是设计和实施基于社区的创新解决方案的理想天然实验室。诺克斯维尔应对社会和技术挑战。这些挑战推动了种族和民族健康以及财富不平等。这些挑战因新冠肺炎而雪上加霜。诺克斯维尔的种族和民族收入不平等现象很严重。诺克斯维尔在基础设施开发和维护方面面临地理和经济障碍。这些都创造了一个以汽车为主的交通系统。基于种族、收入以及城乡之间存在明显的数字鸿沟。该项目将使传统上代表性不足的人群参与进来。它将创建一个协作的团队结构，并开发和部署一个工作原型。整个项目调查交通和信息技术基础设施汇聚系统的可行性。社区使用智能系统弥合建成环境中的空间和技术不匹配并扩大公平获取资源的能力，取决于有效协调数据系统和安全、轻松地共享信息的能力。此外，这个拟议的规划项目将展示一个在前端和整个过程中让社区参与的过程，以便投资更广泛的利益相关者群体，并在开发、部署和扩大任何原型时考虑多种视角。这些方法增加了接受、采用和转让技术以及改变规划和服务系统的可能性。该项目将确定开发社区驱动的智能交通系统所需的关键组件。在其他社区复制，这将导致开发更相关的智能系统，并在社区中成功采用。随着时间的推移，这将带来更大的跨社区技术能力，他们可以利用新兴的交通数据，做出更智能、更具弹性和适应性的交通和通信基础设施规划决策。这一奖项反映了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 will plan a powerful research capacity. The research will be centered on data divide and transportation services. It will also plan development of a solution to infrastructure inequality. It will take advantage of strong, existing relationships between the University of Tennessee and its community partners. The planning project will occur in Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville is a low-density mid-size city in the southeast United States. The project is a collaboration among three institutions. (1) University of Tennessee is the state’s flagship and land grant university. (2) Knoxville Community Development Corporation builds and maintains affordable housing in Knox County. (3) United Way of Greater Knoxville funds and coordinates many poverty fighting initiatives. Knoxville is an ideal natural laboratory for designing and implementing innovative solutions based in the community. Knoxville deals with social and technological challenges. These challenges drive racial and ethnic health and wealth inequality. These challenges have been made worse by COVID-19. Racial and ethnic income inequality is high in Knoxville. Knoxville faces geographical and economic barriers to infrastructure development and maintenance. These have created a transportation system dominated by automobiles. There is a clear digital divide based on race, income, and rural vs. urban. The project will engage traditionally underrepresented populations. It will create a collaborative team structure and develop and deploy a working prototype. The overall project investigates the viability of convergent systems for transportation and information technology infrastructure. The capacity for communities to use intelligent systems to bridge spatial and technical mismatches in the built environment and expand equitable access to resources is predicated on the ability to coordinate data systems efficiently and share information securely and easily. Moreover, this proposed planning project will demonstrate a process of engaging the community at the front-end and throughout such that a broader group of stakeholders is invested, and multiple perspectives are considered in the development, deployment, and scaling up of any prototype. Such methods increase likelihood of acceptance, adoption, and transferability of technologies and altered planning and service systems. This project will identify key components necessary to develop community-driven intelligent transportation systems. Replicated across other communities, this will lead to development of more relevant intelligent systems and successful uptake among communities. Over time, this will lead to greater technical capacity across communities which they can leverage emerging transportation data to make smarter, more resilient, and adaptable transportation and communications infrastructure-planning decisions. with equitable access to economic opportunities.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.