NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing technology-enabled mobility solutions (TN)

这一区域创新引擎发展奖的重点是推进交通电气化和数字化，承诺以一种将改变全球人员和货物流动的规模来彻底改变移动性的未来。田纳西技术支持的高级移动引擎(Team Engine)寻求将服务地区田纳西州置于这一转型的先锋地位，同时减少对碳密集型能源的依赖，减少温室气体排放，并创建更公平的交通系统。田纳西州的目标是成为全国电动汽车(EV)供应链的顶级州。该州正在很好地实现这一目标，自2017年以来，有四家汽车原始设备制造商生产电动汽车，并在电动汽车项目上投资了120亿美元。该团队的目标是创建一个蓬勃发展的先进移动生态系统，以加强田纳西州在创新经济方面的领导地位，保护环境，并提高田纳西州人的生活质量。Team Engine是由教育机构、先进行业、社区和非营利组织、高科技企业孵化器、加速器和风险投资组织、联邦、州和地方政府机构；和经济发展实体共同投资于田纳西州创新经济的长期发展，并为企业、社区和居民创造互惠互利。开发阶段的目标是创建受使用启发的研究、转化为实践、劳动力和合作伙伴和利益相关者战略的生态系统，最终形成支持和维持我们增长的路线图，并承诺在每个战略中交织多样性、公平、包容和可获得性。该项目将产生一系列受使用启发的研发成果，以促进先进的移动产业，利用现有的和探索创建新的开放试验台和设施和设施，以支持协作研究，促进行业和社区参与，降低有前景的技术的风险；并为创新者和企业家开发和实施新的激励和奖励机制，以表彰他们对受使用启发的研发和技术商业化的贡献。Team Engine的合作伙伴已经确定了现实世界的研发挑战，以激励在此获奖期后的努力和投资，包括更轻、更安全、更高效的电动汽车、电池、更快和更安全的车辆充电、移动性网络安全创新、人工智能普及移动性、地面车辆自动化和交通信息学，以及微移动解决方案，这些都是Team Engine感兴趣的研究领域。路线图将包括向州政府提出建议，以便在团队引擎成为完整的NSF工程师的过程中，为四个战略领域的未来投资和努力和资源的协调提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on advancing transportation electrification and digitization, promising to revolutionize the future of mobility at a scale that will transform the movement of people and goods worldwide. The Tennessee Technology-Enabled Advanced Mobility Engine (TEAM Engine) seeks to place Tennessee, the region of service, in the vanguard of this transformation while reducing reliance on carbon-intensive energy sources, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and creating a more equitable transportation system. Tennessee aims to become the top state in the country for the electric vehicle (EV) supply chain. The state is well on its way to meeting this goal, with four automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers producing EVs and $12B in investment in EV projects since 2017. The team aims to create a thriving advanced mobility ecosystem that strengthens Tennessee's leadership in the innovation economy, safeguards the environment, and enhances quality of life for Tennesseans. TEAM Engine is a coalition of educational institutions; advanced industries; community and non-profit organizations; high-tech business incubators; accelerators and venture capital organizations; federal, state, and local government agencies; and economic development entities co-invested in the long-term advancement of Tennessee's innovation economy and the creation of mutual and reciprocal benefits for businesses, communities, and residents.The objective in the development phase is the creation of use-inspired research, translation into practice, a workforce, and an ecosystem of partners and stakeholders' strategies that culminate in a roadmap that supports and sustains our growth, with a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility woven throughout each strategy. The project will generate streams of use-inspired R&D outcomes to foster advanced mobility industries, leveraging existing - and exploring the creation of new and open testbeds and facilities and facilities to support collaborative research, foster industry and community engagement, de-risk promising technologies; and developing and implementing new incentives and reward mechanisms for innovators and entrepreneurs to recognize their contributions to use-inspired R&D and technology commercialization. TEAM Engine's partners have identified real-world R&D challenges to motivate efforts and investments beyond this award period, including lighter, safer, and more efficient EVs, batteries, faster and secure vehicle charging, mobility cybersecurity innovations, AI informed mobility for all, ground vehicle automation, and transportation informatics, and micromobility solutions as research areas of interest for the engine. The roadmap will include recommendations to the state to inform future investments and alignment of efforts and resources across the four strategic areas as TEAM Engine moves to become a full NSF Engine.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.