SCC-CIVIC-FA Track A: Co-Creating a Community Hub for Smart Mobility: A University-Government-Nonprofit Partnership

这项NSF CIVIC拨款将提供可持续，可扩展和可转移的概念证明，通过与公民合作伙伴在脆弱社区共同创建智能移动社区中心（CHSM），解决美国城市住房负担能力和就业之间的空间不匹配问题。住房负担能力和就业之间的空间不匹配导致通勤交通拥堵，仅美国经济每年就损失290亿美元。而不是一个一刀切的解决方案，这笔赠款将提供一个可持续的，可扩展的，可转让的方法，为当地社区共同创造解决方案，满足他们的需求，并符合他们的价值观。CHSM将成为社区级枢纽，居民可以使用多种交通方式，如共享（电动）自行车，电动滑板车，海陵，电动汽车充电站和公共交通。它将为居民提供更多的流动性选择，增加他们获得工作的机会，改善现有的过境沙漠，并提高整个交通系统的效率。CHSM概念可能会使各种社区受益，最大的好处是那些目前交通系统服务最不足的人，以及由于工作/住房不匹配而资源最不足的人。该项目的成果和发现将为如何改善弱势社区居民的流动性和缓解全国范围内的工作/住房不匹配提供新的见解。该项目的目标是开发，实施和评估智能移动社区中心（CHSM），以解决美国城市的工作/住房不匹配。该研究小组将专注于佐治亚州英亩，这是德克萨斯州奥斯汀东北部一个历史上资源不足的社区，并与多个公民合作伙伴合作，以解决该社区独特的交通需求。该项目将通过以下五个重点进行：1。共同设计的GA-CHSM与格鲁吉亚英亩（GA）的邻居，2。共同开发GA-CHSM，3。与公民合作伙伴合作CHSM，4。评价GA-CHSM的影响，和5。通过奥斯汀市的项目连接扩展和转移CHSM概念。两者都是定量的（例如，GIS分析、交通建模、机器学习）和定性（例如，访谈、调查、焦点小组）的研究方法将用于本项目，以评估CHSM的成功。这些研究结果将有助于交通规划，社区规划和参与式设计的文献，并将作为一个模型，通过基于社区的移动解决方案解决工作/住房不匹配。该项目是CIVIC创新挑战的一部分，这是NSF，能源部汽车技术办公室，该奖项反映了NSF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。

This NSF CIVIC grant will provide a sustainable, scalable, and transferable proof of concept for addressing the spatial mismatch between housing affordability and jobs in US cities by co-creating a Community Hub for Smart Mobility (CHSM) in vulnerable neighborhoods with civic partners. The spatial mismatch between housing affordability and jobs causes commuter traffic congestion resulting in an annual $29 billion loss to the U.S. economy alone. Rather than a one-size-fits-all solution, this grant will provide a sustainable, scalable, and transferrable method for local communities to co-create solutions that meet their needs and align with their values. CHSMs will be community-level hubs where residents can access multiple modes of transport such as shared (e-)bikes, e-scooters, ride hailing, electric vehicle charging stations, and public transit. It will provide more mobility options to residents, increase their access to jobs, ameliorate existing transit deserts, and improve the efficiency of the overall transportation system. The CHSM concept will likely benefit all kinds of communities, with the greatest benefits going to those who are most underserved by the current transportation system and most under-resourced due to the job/housing mismatch. The results and findings from this project will provide new insights into how to improve residents’ mobility in vulnerable neighborhoods and alleviate the job/housing mismatch nationwide.The goal of this project is to develop, implement, and evaluate a Community Hub for Smart Mobility (CHSM) to solve the job/housing mismatch in US cities. The research team will focus on Georgian Acres, a historically under-resourced neighborhood in northeast Austin, Texas and work with multiple civic partners to address the unique transportation needs of the neighborhood. The project will be carried out through the following five thrusts: 1. Co-Designing the GA-CHSM with the Georgian Acres (GA) Neighborhood, 2. Co-Developing the GA-CHSM, 3. Co-Operating the CHSM with Civic Partners, 4. Evaluating the GA-CHSM’s Impacts, and 5. Scaling and transferring the CHSM concept through the City of Austin’s Project Connect. Both quantitative (e.g., GIS analysis, transportation modeling, machine learning) and qualitative (e.g., interviews, surveys, focus groups) research methods will be used in this project to evaluate the success of the CHSM. These findings will contribute to the literatures on transportation planning, community planning, and participatory design and will serve as a model for tackling the job/housing mismatch through community-based mobility solutions.This project is part of the CIVIC Innovation Challenge which is a collaboration of NSF, Department of Energy Vehicle Technology Office, Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate and Federal Emergency Management Agency.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.