Towards a Smart, Safe, and Sustainable Sidewalk: A Quantitative Analysis on How Sidewalk Infrastructure Affect Personal Delivery Devices

The study team aims to investigate how the sidewalk infrastructure affects Person Delivery Devices (PDDs) and residents. To this end, the team plans to collect data of the sidewalk ecosystem in Pittsburgh using a robot and establish a multi-model simulator for PDDs at the city scale. The study team will analyze PDD's disparate impact on different communities in simulation and explore pricing mechanisms to mitigate the disparate impact and promote equity. The project is of great interest to both the government and industry.

• Record URL:
  https://ppms.cit.cmu.edu/projects/detail/365

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $99997
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747111

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Mobility21 National USDOT UTC for Mobility of Goods and People
  Pittsburgh, PA  United States  15213

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Center Program
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• Managing Organizations:

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Mobility21 National USDOT UTC for Mobility of Goods and People
  Pittsburgh, PA  United States  15213
• Project Managers:

  Kline, Robin

• Performing Organizations:

  Carnegie Mellon University

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• Principal Investigators:

  Zhao, Ding

• Start Date: 20210701
• Expected Completion Date: 20220630
• Actual Completion Date: 20220801
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communities; Data collection; Delivery service; Equity (Justice); Infrastructure; Pricing; Residents; Robotics; Sidewalks; Sustainable development
• Geographic Terms: Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01776448
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National University Transportation Center for Improving Mobility (Mobility21)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747111
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 13 2021 11:28AM