Fort Smith, AR
(SMILIES) A community-based framework to develop Shared MicromobIlity for affordabLe-accessIblE housing
Organization: University of Arkansas
Primary Investigator: Suman Mitra
Research Track: Resource and Service Equity
This project presents SMILIES (Shared MicromobIlity for affordabLe-accessIblE houSing): a community-engaged pilot project that brings diverse and often unheard voices together to improve the accessibility to jobs and essential activities for affordable housing communities in small- and mid-sized cities of rural areas by leveraging the explosive growth of shared micromobility (SMM) services such as e-bikes and e-scooters. The project will design and deploy services in high-risk communities in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to estimate the impact of SMM services on household transportation costs, job access, and more. Read the abstract on nsf.gov.