SAI-P: Coupling Regional Economic Development with Transportation Planning for Sustainable Emerging Cities

SAI-P：将区域经济发展与可持续新兴城市的交通规划相结合

• 批准号: 2228555
• 负责人: Lori Dickes
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-15 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228555&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SAI; Coupling; Regional; Economic; Development

Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF Program seeking to stimulate human-centered fundamental and potentially transformative research that strengthens America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad quality of life improvement. Strong, reliable, and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security, and fuels American leadership. To achieve these goals requires expertise from across the science and engineering disciplines. SAI focuses on how knowledge of human reasoning and decision-making, governance, and social and cultural processes enables the building and maintenance of effective infrastructure that improves lives and society and builds on advances in technology and engineering.In many regions of the country, economic development creates increased demand for transportation infrastructure. This can be especially challenging for small- and medium-size cities, where such development can impact quality of life in both positive and negative ways. This SAI planning project identifies opportunities to better couple economic development activities with transportation infrastructure investments, with a particular focus on maximizing the quality of life of current and future residents of small- and medium-sized growing towns and cities. It brings together diverse stakeholders to better understand current practices in this coupling and to identify barriers for improving such coupling. A top priority is to ensure that proactive coupling of economic development and transportation planning allows for an equitable distribution of the positive and negative impacts of development across residents of a community. The project produces a research agenda through focus groups on topics including coupled economic development and transportation infrastructure planning, equity in quality-of-life development impacts for community residents, and improving equity in coupled regional development and infrastructure planning. The focus groups include stakeholders in local and regional government, transportation authorities, community groups, and researchers. The project aims to provide a roadmap on how emerging cities can leverage economic growth in a sustainable and equitable manner over the next several decades.This SAI planning project combines stakeholder-engaged participatory research methods, transportation network analysis, and operations research models for long-term infrastructure planning. The project develops methods for proactive investment in transportation infrastructure to meet increased demand resulting from economic development. This approach helps to ensure that the quality of life of current and future community residents is not detrimentally impacted by such development and, ideally, improves through it. The planning activity also provides insight about how best to improve equity in economic development impacts (positive and negative) across community residents. The implementation of participatory research methods co-produces knowledge on the current practical barriers that limit better coupling between economic development and transportation infrastructure while facilitating the transition of results into practice.This award is supported by the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences.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.

加强美国基础设施 (SAI) 是一项 NSF 计划，旨在促进以人为本的基础性和潜在变革性研究，加强美国的基础设施，为社会经济活力和广泛的生活质量改善提供坚实的基础。私营部门创新、发展经济、创造就业机会、提供更多公共部门服务、加强社区、促进平等机会、保护自然环境、增强国家安全并增强美国的领导力。要实现这些目标，需要来自各个领域的专业知识。 SAI 专注于人类推理和决策、治理以及社会和文化过程的知识如何能够建设和维护有效的基础设施，从而改善生活和社会，并建立在技术和工程的进步之上。在该国的一些地区，经济发展增加了对交通基础设施的需求，这对于中小城市来说尤其具有挑战性，因为这种发展可能会以积极和消极的方式影响生活质量。更好地将经济发展活动与交通基础设施投资结合起来，特别是重点是最大限度地提高中小型不断发展的城镇和城市当前和未来居民的生活质量。它汇集了不同的利益相关者，以更好地了解这种耦合的当前做法，并找出改善这种耦合的障碍。确保经济发展和交通规划的积极耦合能够公平分配社区居民发展的积极和消极影响。该项目通过焦点小组制定了一个研究议程，主题包括耦合经济发展和交通基础设施规划，社区居民生活质量发展影响的公平性，并提高社区居民的公平性该项目旨在提供一个路线图，说明新兴城市如何以可持续和公平的方式利用经济增长。该SAI规划项目结合了利益相关者参与的参与性研究方法、交通网络分析和长期基础设施规划的运筹学模型，该项目开发了主动投资交通基础设施的方法，以满足经济发展带来的日益增长的需求。这种方法有助于确保生活质量当前和未来的社区居民不会受到这种发展的严重影响，并且理想情况下，可以通过这种发展得到改善。规划活动还提供了有关如何最好地改善社区居民经济发展影响（积极和消极）的公平性的见解。研究方法共同产生有关当前限制经济发展和交通基础设施之间更好耦合的实际障碍的知识，同时促进成果转化为实践。该奖项由社会、行为和经济 (SBE) 科学理事会支持。 NSF 奖项反映了法定使命，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。