Project: #378 Developing data collection systems to support community-driven integrated mobility services Progress Report - Reporting Period Ending: March 30, 2022 Principal Investigator: Patrick Carrington Status: Active Start Date: July 1, 2021 End Date: June 30, 2022 Research Type: Applied Grant Type: Research Grant Program: FAST Act - Mobility National (2016 - 2022) Grant Cycle: 2021 Mobility UTC Progress Report (Last Updated: April 1, 2022, 6:53 a.m.) % Project Completed to Date: 50 % Grant Award Expended: 0 % Match Expended & Document: 0 USDOT Requirements Accomplishments The major goal of this project is to support community-driven design and deployment of mobility systems and services. Our objective is to develop and test methods for municipalities to use to support community-driven design of transportation and mobility systems that are more accessible, sustainable, and equitable. Furthermore, we aim to build systems to collect community data on the use and impacts of such transportation and mobility services. Over the past six months we have: - Continued community meetings with stakeholders and residents impacted by Personal Delivery Robot pilot. - Collaborated with our partners to create feedback surveys for PDD users. - Collected and analyzed public conversations from social media and internet resources (Twitter, Reddit) to understand the discourse surrounding PDD and micromobility technologies (delivery robots and e-scooters) - During the period from September to March, students have been engaged in research and development activities to support understanding public discourse and perception concerning PDD and micromobility solutions. - We have also continued development of the feedback stations and data collection systems via class projects and independent studies with undergrad and graduate students. Writing and Dissemination - Contributed feedback on PDD Pilot Report to PennDoT - Workshop paper on PDD observations, submitted Feb. ‘22 (HRI “Robots in Public Spaces”) - Drafting full paper on PDD observations (CSCW - July ‘22) Impacts None to date Other Workshop paper - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SKGLoiElwkaKt_NwdDkIOvOwrEOCv9Wa/view?usp=sharing Presented at the Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces at ACM/IEEE Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22) Students presented at PDD Pilot Steering Committee on results from observations and interviews (25 hours of observation and 8 interviews) Presented to FHWA (Federal Highway Administration) and at a workshop on Transit Accessibility put on by Cambridge University. Data collection systems development in progress. Outcomes New Partners Urbanism Next City of San Jose Issues This Period 10/1 - 3/30: No changes. Prior Period Updates: Just before the start of the last period, the city began planning for a micromobility pilot with personal delivery devices (PDDs). Working with our partner at the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure we pivoted our research activities to focus on the deployment of PDDs first within the city due to the unique opportunity. This pivot aligns with our overall goals to support community-driven design and deployment of mobility services, however, places less focus on individual feedback systems and emphasizes more data and feedback collection from the community at large, including more direct observation and interviews. These changes will not have a significant impact on expenditures and involve very similar research and development activities.