SCC-CIVIC-FA Track A: A Community-Based Framework to Develop Shared Micromobility for Affordable-Accessible Housing (SMILIES)

本项目提出了SMILIES（共享微型交通便利住房）：这是一个社区参与的试点项目，旨在利用共享微型交通便利服务（SMM）的爆炸式增长，改善经济适用住房社区居民获得工作和基本服务的机会。SMM包括社区使用的自行车和踏板车，包括电动版本。经济适用房在美国越来越稀缺，尤其是在农村地区的中小城市。由于这些城市提供的公共交通选择有限，生活在这些地区的低收入居民可能难以获得工作和基本服务。因此，应该研究考虑但不依赖过境的运输解决方案，以改善农村地区中小城市低收入工人的可及性。SMM正在成为大都市地区一种流行的娱乐模式，但尚未成为经济适用房社区就业-住房-交通的创新解决方案。通过社区参与产生的拟议的SMM试点项目将通过量化SMM对就业机会和经济适用住房社区基本活动的影响来填补这一关键空白。这一贡献意义重大，因为它将引入战略和政策，指导地方政府、社区倡导者和中小企业经营者有效管理中小企业服务，同时确保低收入居民能够获得这些福利，最终促进社会公平。该项目的总体目标是通过社区参与的以研究为中心的试点项目，为经济适用房社区设计和评估SMM系统。这一目标将通过以社区为基础的参与性行动研究方法来实现，并辅之以可量化的模型，以估计家庭旅行和费用以及对社区管理服务的潜在需求的影响。该项目的CBPAR团队包括来自大学、公共规划和运输机构、当地企业和SMM供应商的各种利益相关者。拟议的研究具有变革性，因为它将利用社区参与，首先设计一个以社区为中心的SMM系统，然后在社区定义的条件下进行现实世界的试点部署。该试点项目将在阿肯色州的史密斯堡（Fort Smith）展开，这是一个中等城市，贫困发生率高，种族多样性高，由于缺乏公共交通，在获得就业和基本服务方面存在交通挑战。该项目是公民创新挑战赛的一部分，该挑战赛是由国家科学基金会、能源部车辆技术办公室、国土安全部科学技术局和联邦紧急事务管理局合作开展的。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 project presents SMILIES (Shared MicromobIlity for affordabLe-accessIblE houSing): a community-engaged pilot project to improve accessibility to jobs and essential services for residents of affordable housing communities by leveraging the explosive growth of shared micromobility services (SMM). SMM includes community usage of bikes and scooters, including electric ('e') versions. Affordable-accessible housing is increasingly scarce in the U.S., particularly in small and mid-sized cities in rural areas. As these cities offer only limited public transportation options, low-income residents living in those areas may struggle to access jobs and essential services. Thus, transportation solutions that consider but do not rely on transit to improve the accessibility of low-income workers in small and mid-sized cities in rural areas should be investigated. SMM is emerging as a popular mode for recreation in large metropolitan areas but has yet to be leveraged as an innovative solution for jobs-housing transportation in affordable housing communities. The proposed SMM pilot project generated through community engagement will fill this critical gap by quantifying the impact of SMM on accessibility to jobs and essential activities for affordable housing communities. This contribution is significant because it would introduce strategies and policies to guide local governments, community champions, and SMM operators in efficient management of SMM services while ensuring the benefits are available and accessible to low-income residents, ultimately promoting social equity. The overall objective of this project is to design and evaluate an SMM system for affordable housing communities through a community-engaged research-centered pilot project. This objective will be accomplished through a Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) methodology, supported with quantifiable models to estimate the impacts of SMM on household travel and costs as well as the latent demand for SMM services. The CBPAR team for this project includes diverse stakeholders from universities, public planning and transportation agencies, local businesses, and SMM vendors. The proposed research is transformative as it will leverage community engagement to first design a community-centered SMM system and then conduct real-world pilot deployments under community-defined conditions. The pilot is to be deployed in Fort Smith, Arkansas, a mid-sized city with high incidents of poverty and racial diversity, and a history of transportation challenges centered on access to jobs and essential services attributable to a lack of public transit. 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.