SCC-IRG Track 1: Fostering Smart and Sustainable Travel through Engaged Communities using Integrated Multidimensional Information-Based Solutions

这一智能和互联社区奖将支持开发系统部署工具的研究，智能和互联社区可以利用先进的信息、通信和传感器技术，以可量化的方式实现可持续出行目标。虽然先进技术解决方案的部署为社区提供了改善居民生活质量和繁荣的巨大希望，但由于技术和出行需求的多样性以及居民面临的障碍，他们在实现这些愿望方面面临着重大挑战。将利用桃树之角（GA）作为沉浸式生活实验室，开发与增强出行机动性、安全性、公平性和可及性相关的可持续发展目标的解决方案。其中包括建立新的伙伴关系，涉及私营部门新兴的微型交通服务和成熟的公共交通模式。此外，它们将涉及个性化的行为干预，通过无缝的信息提供，推动和激励个人汽车用户考虑可持续的替代方案。在社区一级，公共政策干预将寻求灵活和新颖的旅行选择，同时确保所有居民都能及时获得与旅行有关的信息。对于服务不足和代表性不足的居民，解决方案将包括克服低收入社区信息沙漠的策略，老年居民与年龄相关的技术知识问题，以及减少智能手机和交通选择的机会。这些解决方案将使用从社区居民和其他来源收集的数据来开发，并使用信息设计系统进行部署，该系统使用多种交付机制（包括社区应用程序）向社区中的各种利益相关者提供有针对性的信息交付。该项目将推进与整体社区层面决策相关的理论和部署范例，以实现以多种、不同的目标，同时满足不同涉众的需求和约束。特别是，它将解决如何整合来自不同利益相关者的不同、多来源数据的挑战，并利用这些数据系统地产生多维解决方案（伙伴关系、行为干预、政策干预），以系统、可量化的方式在社区一级实现多个可持续性目标。它将利用多目标和多智能体优化、机器学习、行为经济学、数据和政策分析等方法来生成多维解决方案。此外，它将为解决方案选项本身带来新的范例和算法，并为在固有的复杂、多维智能和连接社区中与实际部署框架相关的可推广原则的发展带来新的范例和算法。该项目还将开发信息设计和交付的正式方法，将多维解决方案转化为各种利益相关者无缝的可操作信息。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 Smart and Connected Communities award supports research that will develop systematic deployment tools that smart and connected communities can use to achieve their sustainable travel goals in a quantifiable manner by leveraging advances in information, communication and sensor technologies. While the deployment of advanced technological solutions offers great promise for communities to improve residents' quality of life and prosperity, they are faced with significant challenges in realizing these aspirations due to the diversity in technological and travel needs and barriers faced by the residents. Solutions to achieve sustainability objectives related to enhancing travel mobility, safety, equity, and access will be developed using the City of Peachtree Corners (GA) as an immersive living lab. They include building novel partnerships involving emerging micromobility services in the private sector and the well-established public transit modes. Further, they will involve personalized behavioral interventions to nudge and incentivize personal auto users to consider sustainable alternatives through seamless information provision. At the community level, public policy interventions will seek to enable flexible and novel travel alternatives while ensuring that all residents have access to timely travel-related information. For underserved and underrepresented residents, the solutions will include strategies to overcome information deserts in lower-income neighborhoods, age-related technology savviness issues for senior residents, and reduced access to smartphones and transportation options. These solutions will be developed using data collected from community residents and other sources, and deployed using an information design system that provides targeted information delivery to the various stakeholders in the community using multiple delivery mechanisms, including a community app.This project will advance theory and deployment paradigms associated with holistic, community-level decision-making to achieve travel sustainability goals characterized by multiple, disparate objectives while meeting the needs and constraints of different stakeholders. In particular, it will address the challenges of how to integrate disparate, multi-source data from various stakeholders and use it to systematically generate multidimensional solution options (partnerships, behavioral interventions, policy interventions) to meet multiple sustainability objectives at the community level in a systematic, quantifiable manner over time. It will draw on methods from multi-objective and multi-agent optimization, machine learning, behavioral economics, and data and policy analytics, to generate the multidimensional solutions. Further, it will lead to novel paradigms and algorithms for the solution options themselves, and for the development of generalizable principles related to practical deployment frameworks in the inherently complex, multidimensional smart and connected communities. The project will also develop formal methods for information design and delivery that translate the multidimensional solutions into actionable information that is seamless for the various stakeholders.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.