CIVIC-PG Track B: Catalyzing Walkable, Sustainable, and Equitable Urban Development using Innovative Transportation Strategies

这个公民创新挑战（CIVIC）项目旨在建立创新的方法，通过利用先进的交通设计创新和强大的大学和社区合作伙伴关系，将以汽车为导向的郊区商业走廊转变为可步行，可访问，可持续和负担得起的混合用途“活动中心”。该项目依赖于最先进的“地方制造替代交叉口”的战略，有很大的潜力，催化步行发展沿着老化的多车道郊区公路。其他好处将包括多式联运、减少延误、提高安全性、减少碳足迹、提高公平性、降低人均基础设施成本和增强经济活力。公民合作伙伴包括北卡罗来纳州交通部（NCDOT）、格林维尔市和史密斯菲尔德镇。非营利组织“强镇”还将开展合作，确保项目成果以及相关的国家实施工具和方法得到广泛发现。该项目提供了一个进程，使社区官员和国家发展和旅游局能够通过参与性办法，利用各种工具和战略，促进可持续、无障碍、多模式的发展。工具和流程包括3D可视化和开发特定于社区的设计指南，用于实施混合用途开发和创新交叉口模型。在这项规划工作中，大学研究人员和社区组织的项目团队将共同努力解决必要的研究问题，为研究区域准备设计指南。这包括收集关于土地使用、密度、交通流动性、旅行时间、目前的经验和看法以及其他因素的基线信息。第一阶段工作的结果将包括初步研究议程和评估，确定社区特定的优势，需求，与交通，步行能力，公平获得设施和经济发展机会有关的挑战，为第二阶段项目。项目团队和合作伙伴将制定一项为期12个月的战略，包括社区调查、焦点小组和研讨会，以提高对新想法的接受度，展示设计策略的3D效果图，以及进一步的性能分析。第二阶段还计划举办网络研讨会和新的网络应用程序，以扩大影响，并在更多利益相关者面前彻底审查这些战略，以便以交通为中心的城市振兴战略可以轻松应用于社区计划和NCDOT规划流程。其目标是展示如何通过在目前正在努力复兴的郊区社区中使用创新的场所营造策略来克服可持续，可步行和公平的城市设计的障碍。通过与主要利益攸关方审查项目愿景，该项目还将确定实施战略的成本以及从发展资助的价值获取战略中可以构建多少。这将有助于社区更有可能采用场所营造和替代交叉口战略和设施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

This Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) project aims to establish innovative approaches for converting auto-oriented suburban commercial corridors into walkable, accessible, sustainable, and affordable mixed-use “activity centers” by leveraging cutting edge transportation design innovations and strong university and community partnerships. This project relies on state-of-the-art “Placemaking Alternative Intersection” strategies that have great potential to catalyze walkable development along decaying multilane suburban highways. Other benefits will include multi-modal accessibility, reduced delay, improved safety, reduced carbon footprint, improved equity, reduced per-capita cost of infrastructure, and strong economic vitality. Civic partners involve the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), the City of Greenville, and the Town of Smithfield. The non-profit, Strong Towns, will also collaborate and ensure project results and associated tools and methods for national implementation will be widely discovered. The project provides a process for empowering community officials and NCDOT with tools and strategies for advancing sustainable, accessible, multimodal development through participatory approaches. Tools and process include 3D visualizations and development of community-specific design guidelines for implementing mixed-use development and innovative intersection models.In this planning effort, the project team of university researchers and community organizations will work together to address research questions necessary to prepare design guidelines for the study areas. This includes gathering baseline information on land uses, density, transportation mobility, travel time, current experiences and perceptions, and other factors. Results of this Stage I effort will include the initial research agenda and assessment identifying community-specific strengths, needs, challenges related to transportation, walkability, equitable access to amenities, and economic development opportunities for a Stage 2 project. The project team and partners will devise a 12-month strategy involving community surveys, focus groups, and workshops to increase acceptance of new ideas, 3D renderings to demonstrate design strategies, and further performance analysis. Webinars and new webapps are also planned for Stage 2 to broaden the impact and vet these strategies thoroughly before a larger audience of stakeholders so that urban revitalization strategies centered around transportation can be easily applied in community plans and NCDOT planning processes. The goal is to demonstrate how to overcome obstacles to sustainable, walkable, and equitable urban design by using innovative placemaking strategies in suburban communities currently struggling with revitalization. By vetting the project vision with key stakeholders, the project will also determine the cost to implement strategies and how much can be constructed from development-financed value-capture strategies. This will help communities more likely to adopt placemaking and alternative intersection strategies and amenities.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.