CIVIC-PG Track B: Co-Design of Integrated Energy and Mobility Hubs for Service and Resiliency

这个公民创新挑战（CIVIC）项目旨在开发决策支持工具和设计，支持社区主导的合作计划，以改善能源和运输服务。最近发生的自然灾害凸显了美国电力网和交通网络的脆弱性，以及其故障后灾难性的社会、经济和环境后果。针对这一现实，该项目的愿景是，社区，特别是那些最脆弱的社区，必须能够获得各种工具，使他们能够合作建立有弹性的、分散的、清洁的发电系统，以满足他们的基本电力需求，并推动他们向新兴的运输模式和服务过渡。为此，该项目将推进对综合能源和移动微型枢纽的设计和实施的研究，这些枢纽即使在自然灾害发生后也能为确保社区健康、繁荣和福利所需的关键服务提供支持。此外，该研究项目将探讨制定教育和培训举措，为安装和维护微型枢纽所需的劳动力做好准备。该项目的具体目标包括：（一）建立分析框架和工具，帮助共同设计低成本、清洁能源微型枢纽（即，小规模发电系统），支持更有弹性的电力服务，ii）使用框架在波多黎各社区共同设计、建造和安装能源微型枢纽的原型，iii）制定利用能源枢纽产生的电力来支持新的共享移动选项的战略，iv）制定实施劳动力发展培训计划的模式，帮助社区实施和推动满足其需求的创新。最后，利用波多黎各服务中心的经验，该项目旨在确定可以帮助美国大陆其他社区弥合能源和流动性差距的经验教训。规划补助金的目标是：i）确定波多黎各农村社区的能源、交通和劳动力服务差距，ii）探索合作能源和交通枢纽在多大程度上可以满足社区的需求，iii）探索和记录可以用来推进服务枢纽设计的模型和数据，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进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) Project aims to develop decision support tools and designs that support community-led collaborative initiatives to improve energy and transportation services. Recent natural disasters have underscored the vulnerability of the nation’s electric power grids and transportation networks, as well as the catastrophic social, economic, and environmental consequences that follow their failure. In response to this reality, this project’s vision is that communities, particularly those most vulnerable, must have access to tools that can empower them to collaboratively establish resilient, decentralized, clean power generating systems that meet their basic electricity needs and that can drive their transition to emerging transportation modes and services. To this end, the project will advance research on the design and implementation of integrated energy and mobility micro hubs that can provide support, even in the aftermath of natural disasters, to the critical services required to ensure the health, prosperity, and welfare of communities. In addition, the research project will explore the development of education and training initiatives to prepare the workforce needed to install and maintain the micro hubs. Specific objectives of the project include: i) create analytical frameworks and tools that can aid in the co-design of low-cost, clean energy micro hubs (i.e., small scale power generation systems) that support more resilient electric power services, ii) use the frameworks to co-design, build and install prototypes of the energy micro hubs in communities in Puerto Rico, iii) develop strategies that leverage the power generated in the energy hubs to support new shared mobility options, iv) and develop models for the implementation of workforce development-training programs that help communities to implement and drive innovations that address their needs. Lastly, using the experiences in Puerto Rico with the service hubs, the project aims to identify lessons that can help other communities in the continental US bridge energy and mobility gaps. The planning grant objectives are to: i) identify energy, transportation, and workforce service gaps in rural communities located in Puerto Rico, ii) explore to what extent collaborative energy and transportation hubs can address the needs of the communities, and iii) explore and document models and data that can be leveraged to advance the design of the service hubs, while also advancing new workforce development and business models associated with the multi-use micro-hubs.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.