CCRI: Planning: ScooterLab: Development of a Programmable and Participatory e-Scooter Testbed to Enable CISE-focused Micromobility Research

CCRI：规划：ScooterLab：开发可编程和参与式电动滑板车测试平台，以实现以 CISE 为重点的微移动研究

• 批准号: 2016717
• 负责人: Murtuza Jadliwala
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at San Antonio
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2016717&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CCRI; Planning; ScooterLab; Development; Programmable

Single-rider micromobility vehicles, such as dock-less battery-powered e-scooters, are a fast-growing and popular short-distance transportation mechanism in our urban communities. This upcoming transportation paradigm not only provides new research opportunities in Computer and Information Science & Engineering (CISE) focused areas of large-scale data management, computer hardware/software systems design, cyber security and user-privacy, but also serves as an excellent instrument to collect contextual data that could enable research in a variety of other CISE and multi-disciplinary areas such as machine learning, high performance computing, urban planning, transportation engineering and public policy. However, currently a large-scale, easily customizable, and publicly-accessible research instrument comprising of micromobility vehicles to support these opportunities is unavailable, which hinders scientific advances in these areas. The goal of this project is to plan for the creation and eventual deployment of such a community infrastructure - a testbed referred to as ScooterLab. The ScooterLab testbed involves retrofitting off-the-shelf micromobility vehicles with customized sensors and controller computers and developing a management portal to support inter-disciplinary research collaborations. It will be available to community researchers for deployment of customized sensing experiments and trials of new algorithms/systems. Carefully curated datasets from these experiments and trials will be publicly-available and will enable new, ground-breaking research breakthroughs in CISE and other multi-disciplinary domains.This CISE Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI) planning project will make the following key contributions: (1) reach out to CISE and other inter-disciplinary communities focusing on micromobility research in order to further understand the requirements of researchers within this space, (2) implement proof-of-concept vehicles for the planned testbed and continuously improve the design of these preliminary prototypes based on community feedback, and (3) organize focused workshops and tutorials to update the community about these preliminary vehicle designs, testbed deployment plans and related research goals. This planning project is a necessary step towards implementation of the ScooterLab community testbed, which can prevent time-consuming and expensive duplication of research testbeds that are not shared with others. The outreach activities of this project and the planned ScooterLab testbed will provide opportunities for attracting and sustaining faculty and students working on intelligent micromobility solutions and transportation systems, and will bring together researchers from computer science, electrical engineering, urban planning, and public policy for inter-disciplinary research in this emerging area. The testbed will also be a foundational instrument for University of Texas at San Antonio’s (UTSA) planned Urban Science Institute, which is part of the ten-year plan for the Downtown campus. As a minority-serving institution (56% Hispanic and 51% Female), UTSA as a home for this testbed will provide extensive research and participation opportunities for people of color and women.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.

单骑手的微型驾驶汽车，例如无码头电池供电的电子磁带机，是我们城市社区中快速增长且流行的短途运输机构。即将到来的运输范式不仅为大规模数据管理，计算机硬件/软件系统设计，网络安全和用户私人关系提供了计算机和信息科学与工程（CISE）的新研究机会，而且还可以作为收集各种CISE和多学科学习领域启用研究的上下文数据，例如，计算机，高度绩效，高度绩效，计算机，您可以在其他各种多学科领域进行研究。但是，目前不可用的大规模，易于定制且可公开访问的研究工具完成微型驾驶汽车来支持这些机会，这阻碍了这些领域的科学进步。该项目的目的是计划创建和最终部署此类社区基础架构 - 被称为ScooterLab的测试。经过测试的ScooterLab涉及使用定制的传感器和控制器计算机改造现成的微型车辆，并开发管理门户以支持跨学科研究合作。它将向社区研究人员使用，用于部署定制传感器和新算法/系统的试验。这些实验和试验中精心策划的数据集将是公开的，将在CISE和其他多学科领域中实现新的，突破性的研究突破。CISE社区研究基础设施（CCRI）计划项目将在以下关键方面进行研究：（1）在阶段进行研究：（1）在阶段进行研究，以实现这一方案的研究，以实现这一范围，以实现这一范围，以实现这一方案，以实现这一方案，以实现序言，以实现学科的跨学科研究，以实现学科的研究，并将其取得成功，以实现学科的研究，并将（2）针对计划的测试床的实施概念验证车辆，并根据社区反馈不断改进这些初步原型的设计，以及（3）组织专注的研讨会和教程，以向社区介绍这些初步车辆设计，测试床位部署计划和相关研究目标。该计划项目是实施已测试的ScooterLab社区的必要步骤，这可以防止与他人共享的研究测试台的耗时且昂贵的重复。该项目的外展活动和计划的弹鞋仪测试将为吸引和维持从事智能微型解决方案和运输系统的教师和学生提供机会，并将将计算机科学，电气工程，城市规划和公共政策的研究人员聚集在一起，用于该新兴领域的跨学科研究。测试台还将是德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥大学（UTSA）计划的城市科学学院的基础工具，该研究所是市区校园十年计划的一部分。作为少数族裔服务机构（56％的西班牙裔和51％的女性），UTSA作为该测试的家园将为有色人种和妇女的人提供广泛的研究和参与机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查审查标准来通过评估来获得的支持。

项目成果

An Investigative Study on the Privacy Implications of Mobile E-scooter Rental Apps

• DOI: 10.1145/3507657.3528551
• 发表时间: 2022-05
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks
• 作者: Nisha Vinayaga-Sureshkanth;Raveen Wijewickrama;Anindya Maiti;Murtuza Jadliwala