Strategic Development of GUI Tools for Enhancing Transportation Mobility Among Vulnerable Groups During Pandemics

This project aims to improve transportation equality and life quality of voluntary groups with disabilities and the elderly by addressing social exclusion, accessibility, and mobility issues. The project team proposes to develop a strategic GUI application to facilitate the planning, establishment, and life-cycle maintenance and management of ride-sharing vehicle facilities, effectively accommodating their transportation needs. The objective is to develop a user-friendly GUI application using Python Tkinter library to simplify the adoption of the developed algorithms of the car-sharing system for vulnerable groups into practice. Within the GUI application, to streamline all core functions derived from the developed algorithms, encompassing interactive data input processes (such as retrieving city network data and user-defined points of interest (POI) like retirement communities, healthcare centers, grocery stores, entertainment clubs, etc.), automated data processing, calculations, decision-making, and result reporting.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $224269
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747117

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  University of South Carolina, Columbia

  502 Byrnes Building
  Columbia, SC  United States  29208
• Managing Organizations:

  Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility

  Clemson University
  Clemson, SC  United States  29634
• Performing Organizations:

  University of South Carolina, Columbia

  502 Byrnes Building
  Columbia, SC  United States  29208
• Principal Investigators:

  Chen, Yuche

• Start Date: 20240301
• Expected Completion Date: 20240930
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Aged; Equity; Graphical user interfaces; Mobility; Persons with disabilities; Quality of life; Ridesharing; Underserved communities
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01913782
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747117
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Apr 4 2024 12:26PM