SCC-CIVIC-FA Track A: Piloting On-Demand Multimodal Transit in Atlanta

这项NSF CIVIC拨款将在亚特兰大试行按需多式联运公共交通系统（ODMTS），以改善就业、医疗保健和体面杂货的可及性。ODMTS是新一代的公共交通系统，结合了联合收割机按需穿梭服务的第一/最后一英里，与高频铁路和/或公共汽车路线运输通勤者在密集和拥挤的走廊。它们有潜力改善所有人口阶层的流动性，并且方便，经济可持续和环境友好。该试点项目将在实地展示这些潜在的好处，特别是对过去处境极为不利的社区。它将首先集中在城市的西区和贝尔韦代雷公园地区，这两个社区的交通服务很差，是低收入人口的家园。该试点汇集了一个多学科的团队组成的玛尔塔，第八大过境机构在该国，亚特兰大自行车联盟，过境倡导组，研究人员在格鲁吉亚教的过渡，从ODMTS概念的实地试点提出了重大的智力挑战，包括（1）准确建模的过境采用;（2）预订的概念及其与实时请求的集成;（3）在交通运输系统中的应用。（3）服务同步;（4）公交换乘与停靠的精确建模。此外，从ODMTS概念到实地试点的过渡也带来了重大的社区挑战。该服务应向所有人口群体提供，并弥合多个人口群体之间存在的数字鸿沟。这需要（1）灵活的支付选择;（2）灵活的通信方式;（3）多语言的移动的应用程序。为了评估成功，该项目将提供一项反事实研究，根据以下指标比较现有系统和拟议试点的性能：（1）公交乘客量，（2）等待和车内旅行时间，（3）可达性，（4）满意度。这些指标量化了ODMTS的可达性、性能和吸引力，并为未来的交通系统提供了宝贵的信息。这笔赠款的一个关键贡献也将是美国公共交通系统的蓝图。特别是，该项目将提供移动应用程序和高性能服务器，这些应用程序和服务器将与社区共享，以便于复制和技术转让。此外，它将收集宝贵的信息，以校准模式选择和过境采用模式。而且，通过格鲁吉亚智能计划，试点团队包括来自莫尔豪斯学院的学生，这是一所历史悠久的黑人大学;他们将参与试点的各个方面。该项目是CIVIC创新挑战赛的一部分，该挑战赛是NSF，能源部汽车技术办公室，美国国土安全部科学技术局和联邦应急管理局。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，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 NSF CIVIC grant will pilot an On-Demand Multimodal Public Transit System (ODMTS) in Atlanta to improve accessibility to jobs, health care, and decent groceries. ODMTSs are a new generation of public transit systems that combine on-demand shuttles to serve the first/last miles, with high-frequency rail and/or bus routes to transport commuters on dense and congested corridors. They have the potential to improve mobility for all population segments, and are convenient, economically sustainable, and environmental friendly. The pilot will demonstrate these potential benefits in the field and, in particular, for communities that have been significantly disadvantaged in the past. It will first focus on the West Side of the city and the Belvedere Park area, two communities that are poorly served by transit and home to a low-income population. The pilot brings together a multi-disciplinary team composed of MARTA, the eighth largest transit agency in the country, the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, a transit advocacy group, and researchers at Georgia Teach.The transition from the ODMTS concept to a field pilot raises significant intellectual challenges, including (1) the accurate modeling of transit adoption; (2) the concept of reservations and its integration with real-time requests; (3) service synchronization; and (4) the accurate modeling of bus transfers and stops. In addition, the transition from the ODMTS concept to a field pilot raises significant community challenges. The service should be accessible to all population segments and bridge the digital divide that exists for multiple population segments. This requires (1) flexible payment options; (2) flexible communication methods; and (3) multi-language mobile applications. To evaluate success, the project will provide a counterfactual study comparing the performance of the existing system and the proposed pilot, based on the following metrics: (1) transit ridership, (2) wait and in-vehicle travel time, (3) accessibility, and (4) satisfaction. These metrics quantify accessibility, performance, and appeal of the ODMTS, and provide invaluable information for future transit systems. A key contribution of the grant will also be a blueprint for public transit systems across the US. In particular, the project will deliver mobility applications and high-performance servers that will be shared with the community to ease replicability and technology transfer. Moreover, it will collect invaluable information to calibrate mode choice and transit adoption models. Moreover, through the Georgia Smart Program, the pilot team include students from Morehouse college, a historically black university; they will participate in all aspects of the pilot.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.