SCC-PG: SmartCurb: Building Smart Urban Curb Environments

SCC-PG：SmartCurb：构建智能城市路缘环境

基本信息

批准号：
2124858
负责人：
Yan Wang
金额：
$ 15万
依托单位：
University of Florida
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-10-01 至 2023-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2124858&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
SCC PG SmartCurb Building Smart

项目摘要

U.S. cities are witnessing an era of transformative innovations in electric vehicles (EVs), autonomous vehicles, on-vehicle electronics, Global Position System, mobile devices, digital maps, and numerous apps that assist driving and parking. However, the advance in curb environments where vehicles operate has not kept pace. Curb environments serve as a unique nexus that connects on-road traffic and pedestrian sidewalks across urban communities, but are burdened in urban cores due to space competition for pick-ups and drop-offs, freight loading, EVs charging, bicycle, and scooter parking. This NSF Smart & Connected Community planning grant studies curbside environments at the downtown and University of Florida (UF) campus communities in the City of Gainesville, Florida. It focuses on how to integrate vehicles, people, mobile devices, physical and cyber infrastructures to coordinate curb space uses. Collectively, these innovations will maximize equitable and convenient access while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions for healthy and sustainable communities, relieving congestion at curb spaces, and boosting livability for community residents. The project explores important, emerging challenges faced by cities across America. The knowledge learned will be shared with local communities, who will benefit in the long term, to prepare city curbs for future burgeoning technology and mobility innovations. The project seeks to understand curb space uses of urban communities and to develop strategic management to adapt increasingly diverse and conflicting curb space uses in response to emerging vehicular technologies and mobility innovations. Several key interdisciplinary research questions are addressed, including (i) how sensor data from curb environments, vehicles, and human mobile devices can be collected, curated, and correlated jointly by separate transportation and parking management entities? (ii) how to design, plan, and manage curb environments to address congestion, safety, and accessibility issues collectively across cyberinfrastructure in the urban communities? (iii) how to precisely predict the evolvement of curb uses across time and space in the future? (iv) how to creatively coordinate various curb uses in real time? (v) what are the potential privacy issues to vehicles and people at curb environments when surveillance, sensing, and data analyses are performed, and how to design innovative technologies to mitigate privacy threats? The project team will form novel research problems from socio-technical perspectives in the context of campus-downtown settings, develop academic and community partnerships with the necessary knowledge to address the problems, and prepare testbed “Smart Curb” environments to be included in a future SCC-IRG proposal.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.

美国城市正在经历电动汽车 (EV)、自动驾驶汽车、车载电子设备、全球定位系统、移动设备、数字地图以及众多辅助驾驶和停车应用程序的变革性创新时代。然而，路边环境却取得了进步。车辆运行的地方并没有跟上步伐，路边环境作为连接城市社区道路交通和人行道的独特纽带，但由于上下车、货运的空间竞争而在城市核心区承受着负担。这项 NSF 智能互联社区规划拨款研究了佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔市中心和佛罗里达大学 (UF) 校园社区的路边环境。总的来说，这些创新将最大限度地提高公平和便利的使用，同时最大限度地减少健康和可持续社区的温室气体排放，缓解路边空间的拥堵，并提高社区居民的宜居性。探索所学到的知识将与当地社区分享，为未来新兴的技术和交通创新做好城市路缘的准备，当地社区将受益匪浅。社区并制定战略管理，以适应日益多样化和冲突的路边空间用途，以应对新兴的车辆技术和移动创新，解决了几个关键的跨学科研究问题，包括（i）如何从路边环境、车辆和人类移动设备获取传感器数据。可以收集、编译和关联(ii) 如何设计、规划和管理路边环境，以共同解决城市社区网络基础设施的拥堵、安全和可达性问题？ (iii) 如何准确预测路边的演变？未来跨时间和空间的用途？（iv）如何创造性地实时协调各种路边用途？（v）在进行监视、传感和数据分析时，路边环境中的车辆和人员可能面临哪些隐私问题？以及如何设计创新技术来减轻隐私威胁？项目团队将在校园-市中心环境中从社会技术角度形成新颖的研究问题，发展学术和社区合作伙伴关系，并提供必要的知识来解决这些问题，并准备测试平台“智能路边”环境以纳入未来的SCC -IRG 提案。这反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。