CISE-MSI: RCBP-RF: S&CC: Building a Smart Mobility Network for the San Antonio Transit to Improve Transit Service and Social Impact (SmartSAT)

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。公共交通将人们与工作、学校、医疗和娱乐设施、朋友和家人联系在一起。在美国大多数城市，公共交通使用者的收入比使用汽车的通勤者低得多。德克萨斯州的圣安东尼奥紧跟这一趋势，67%的公共交通用户生活在贫困线以下。提供可靠和便利的公共交通将使所有交通用户受益，从而促进所有圣安东尼奥人的向上流动、健康和健康。为了提高交通信息的可靠性和乘客体验的质量，许多交通部门开发了智能手机应用程序。在许多城市地区，公众对公共交通智能手机应用的需求正在增加，尤其是在主要通过智能手机上网的低收入人群中。然而，在这些应用程序上保持可持续、高质量的服务和信息是具有挑战性的。该SmartSAT项目将为南非公共交通开发一个可定制的安全移动应用程序，为用户提供有关交通服务的增强、准确信息，并使数据收集能够评估贫困、种族和族裔对交通用户体验的影响。由此产生的SmartSAT项目将(1)为乘客提供到达时间和可用座位有限的公交车容量的实时信息，(2)建立一个实时反馈的出行体验，(3)利用智能技术并在分析数据时进行数据驱动的决策，(4)提供可靠和可访问的交通工具，方便和平等地获得地点，以及(5)从长远来看，将SA社区利益相关者整合到未来的智能和互联城市中。来自不同学科（社会学、计算机科学、网络安全、信息科学）的研究人员和学生将共同努力，取得项目的成功。该项目的成果将主要惠及低收入的南澳居民，特别是大量的西班牙裔人口。SmartSAT最终将改善南非的移动网络基础设施，为更多工人提供就业和劳动力培训，为更多学生提供教育机会，为更多居民提供社交和休闲活动。它可以影响公共交通用户的生活，特别是少数民族社区和低收入者，他们构成了大多数交通用户。建成的网络可以作为类似大都市地区的转移模型，在使用智能技术的数据驱动决策的支持下，促进公共交通服务的移动性。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 award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Public transportation connects people to their jobs, schools, medical and recreational facilities, friends, and family. Public transportation users in most American cities have disproportionately lower incomes than commuters who use automobiles. San Antonio (SA), TX, follows this trend, with 67% of public transit users falling below the poverty line. Providing reliable and accessible public transit will benefit all transit users and, therefore, promote the upward mobility, health, and wellness of all San Antonians. To improve the reliability of transit information and the quality of the rider experience, many transit authorities have developed smartphone apps. The public demand for public transportation smartphone apps is increasing in many urban areas, particularly among people in lower income brackets who primarily access the internet through their smartphones. However, maintaining sustainable, high-quality service and information on these apps is challenging. This SmartSAT project will develop a customizable secure mobile app for SA public transit that provides users with enhanced, accurate information about transit service and enables data collection to evaluate the impact of poverty, race, and ethnicity on the experience of transit users. The resulting SmartSAT project will (1) provide riders real-time information of arrival times and bus capacity with limited seats available, (2) build an in feedback on-trip experiences, (3) utilize intelligent technology and conduct data-driven decision making when analyzing data, (4) provide reliable and accessible transit with convenient and equal access to get places, and (5) integrate SA community stakeholders into a future smart and connected city in the long run. Researchers and students from diverse disciplines (sociology, computer science, cyber security, & information science) will work collaboratively to achieve project success. The outcomes of this project will primarily benefit low-income SA residents, especially the large Hispanic population. SmartSAT will ultimately improve SA mobile network infrastructure and connect more workers to jobs and workforce training, more students to educational opportunities, and more residents to social and leisure activities. It can impact the lives of public transit users, specifically, minority communities and lower income earners who make up most transit users. The built network can serve as a transferal model for similar metropolitan areas in advancing the mobility of public transportation services supported by data-driven decisions using intelligent technologies.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.