MEETING NOTES

Meeting Date: 13 September, 2016 HNTB Project No.: 58404 Project Name: North Florida Master Plan Purpose: Stakeholder Meeting Attendees:

Gregory Krueger (HNTB) Terrel Shaw (HNTB) Sandra Lenis (HNTB) Jennifer Kennedy (HNTB) Dani Booms (HNTB) Jeff Sheffield (North Florida TPO) Alan Mosley (VP of Transportation, Energy and Logistics) Ben Walker (HNTB) Bill Mann (Jacksonville Beach Planning Dept.) Billy Estep (Nassau County EOC) Brad Thoburn (JTA) Brian Cronin (Director of the Office of Operations, FHWA) Bryan Koon (Florida Division of Emergency Management) Carlton Copeland (Jacksonville Public Works Dept.) Carrie Stanbridge (FDOT Construction) Carrol Franklin (Nassau County Ocean Hwy & Port Authority) Chuck White (Jaxport) Dale Allen (Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office ) David Kaufman (JAXPORT) David Shoar (St. Johns County Sheriff's Office) Donald Jacobovitz (Putnam County Public Works Director) Dylan Bryan (FHP) Frank Corrado (Florida Division Office Operations) Greg Evans (FDOT D2 Secretary) Hamid Tabassign (JTA) James Bujeda (JSO Emergency Planning) Jeff Beck (Clay County Engineering Dept.) Jeff Webb (JTA) Jerry Ausher (FDOT Traffic Operations) Jim Boxold (FDOT Central Office Secretary) Jim Knight (FDOT D2) Justin Ryan (FDOT)

Kate Hartman (Columbus Smart City program USDOT) Kathy Seabrook (Jaxport) Kathy Thomas (FDOT Production) Keith Gaston (FHP) Kimberly Hair (Jacksonville Airport Authority) Kurtis Wilson (Director/Fire Chief City of Jacksonville) Larry Parks (FDOT Production) Laurie Santana (MetroLab Grant PM) Lilly Elefteriadou (UF MetroLab) Linda Stoughton (St. John’s Emergency Management) Martha Graham (St. Augustine Planning Dept.) Michael Young (Jacksonville IT Department) Mike Williams (Jacksonville Sheriff's Office) Morrison Braren (Jacksonville Fire/Rescue) Nelson Caparas (Jacksonville Public Works Dept.) Paul Grimes (Leidos (power/electricity)) Peter King (Nassau County Planning Dept.) Peter Windschmidtt (HNTB) Phil Bishop (FDOT Operations) Phong Nguyen (St. Johns County Planning Dept.) Rakesh Sharma (HNTB-FDOT Central Office) Rennee Braddock (Nassau County Sheriff's Office) Rick Beseler (St. Johns County Sheriff's Office) Rodney Cooper (St. Johns County Public Works) Scott Cordero (NOAA National Weather Service Jacksonville) Scott Herring (Nassau County Engineering Dept.) Steve Johnstone (Jaxport) Terry Carr (Jacksonville Environmental Program) Thobias Sando (UNF MetroLab) Vickie Diaz (JSO Communications) William Killingsworth (Planning Director City of Jacksonville)

The following themes were discussed throughout the course of the meeting. Discussion points have been broken out into these categories, and do not necessarily reflect the chronological order in which they were discussed.

Deployment Strategy

Funding

C2Jax Grant Application Process

St. Augustine

Freight/Delivery

Autonomous Vehicles

Emergency Vehicles/Dispatch

Travel Demand Management

Data Management

Drone Technology

Bike/Ped

JTA and other transit

Other Ideas

Deployment Strategy

Find a few key areas to focus on, including rural areas as well as neighborhoods in and around Jacksonville.

Liked how Columbus focused on 4 areas instead of trying to tackle the whole county - need to segment and piece together the highest priority problems

Funding

Need to fit our plan into a more traditional funding effort while also being proactive to apply for other larger grants

Need to be mindful of a much smaller and more drawn out funding scale than what the grant would have provided

Funding for the Smart City winner is $100 million over 4 years, and a portion of that goes to federal grant tracking paperwork

10 years ago, capacity problems dominated the funding pool. Now, hopefully we can get more opportunities to use what we have more efficiently.

The problems being solved are tied to how the funding challenges work o Need stories to help with dollar, time, and life costs - these stories help obtain different

funding o Usage taxes? - this is the dialogue for the future of the highway trust fund

C2Jax Grant Application Process

City had to be the applicant

Collaborative effort - meetings held at TPO

Teamed with TPO, JTA, Chamber of Commerce, and others

Needed to work on a tight timeline

What ideas flushed out? o Reliability-based system o Skyway ramp – not enough time to flesh out before application was due

St. Augustine

Need to update infrastructure for parking and tourism

Moving traffic through the historical area is an issue

Re-routing traffic to major traffic corridors

Needs better event management

A lot congestion happens when the bridge of lions is opened for the boats

Freight/Delivery

Was mentioned that freight is the #1 goal in the area

Jaxport Freight o Greenway implementation important with real time information o They want information from the city about when lights turn green and other

transportation information.

Provide different routes to solve the issue of delivering food on time to this area

Virtual container yards o Located ad street locations (ex. Los Angeles port of Long Beach) o Try to eliminate dead-heading with something like “uber for shipping containers”

Roadside moving and automated trucks

Rail o Rail can shut down the city when something goes wrong o Sometimes, the rail can shut down responders to the hospital

Is there a hospital liaison we can work with? Need to be able to tell the story of why smart cities is important to the region Quantify the costs – lives, hours, $$ lost, etc.

Lift Bridge – would help to have boat sensors and to implement special signal timings to better handle traffic when the bridge goes up

Mapping freight movement - bridge heights, wrong way trucks, etc.

Garbage trucks – tracking them and rearranging schedules depending on the amount of waste produced from residents

Autonomous Vehicles

Can the skyway be used as an autonomous vehicle corridor?

Autonomous mowers for the side of the road?

Autonomous vehicles are cool, but they're still cars. Emergency Vehicles/Dispatch

Need a better way of getting the message out about emergency vehicles coming from behind and incidents ahead

Can we force the message through the radio when an emergency vehicle comes from behind?

Other CV Technology for this?

Need to know about whether or not some bridges can structurally handle large emergency vehicles

Hospitals & Law Enforcement - using real-time traffic information to route the emergency vehicles

Physically move operators into the same building to assist with collaboration

Add cameras to see conditions before arriving

Need real-time traffic information

Connect emergency rooms/doctors to the field – get people in the field to save more lives Travel Demand Management

Google routes people through neighborhoods that aren't the best routes - Waze and Google both tend to route people through notoriously bad roads - in 5-10 years, is this something we can fit? - street use database

System reliability is a challenge - knowing how long it will take to get from A to B - can be variable

HOV/Managed Lanes - something about the center of the corridor being used in the future for transit

Want solutions for TDM tools - congestion pricing, off-peak hours, etc. - demand management, single-occupancy changes, etc.

Data Management

Lane/road closures

Mapping

Road blockage

Weather information

Partnerships to share data

Easy ways to manage and push data

Predictive traffic for the next 5 years

Mobile Eye – finding debris in the road or infrastructure that needs maintenance

Inventory of data in the city

Seems like the need is for a comprehensive data management system which is easy to access and understand - active management data

(Traffic Eng Div. of Jacksonville) - Mapping lane closures and roadway closures in real time - different agencies have closures and don't always collaborate

Is predictive travel data a priority? - seems that they already have a lot of base data - not critical now, but might be critical down the road

Drone Technology

How will this technology affect transportation?

Deliveries – vendors such as Amazon

Traffic monitoring

Inspections

Bike/Ped

(From the Bike/Ped Coordinator) Connected infrastructure - need a detailed, comprehensive inventory of what we already have - Jacksonville doesn't have that yet - includes bike lanes, sidewalks, speed limits, etc.

o DOT has a roadway characteristic inventory for state routes - but for the city, this is lacking

o Entities like Google and Inrix have this data and we can get it

Use this data to make maintenance more efficient and identify safety issues

o Real-time safety information - this goes for more than just bike/ped - also goes for maintenance issues - the city already has something internally for this, but it would be good to open it up to the rest of the public for reporting

Bike/Ped crash analysis - need a better way to determine exactly what happened - police reports can be incomplete or inconsistent

o Bike/ped crashes seem to happen a lot right outside the TPO JTA and other transit

How do we reuse the skyway? - turn it into an autonomous vehicle route?

Skyway (people mover) - doesn't seem to be very effective right now - "if they just extended one leg in either direction, it would be useful"

o JTA board directed staff to come up with a way to improve the Skyway in Dec 2015 - since then, they're engaged with looking at different types of vehicles, extending legs, etc. to improve operations - autonomous vehicles (mini-buses) - looking for ability to operate in mixed traffic as well.

Automated mini-buses

Greenways so all buses receive a green signal Other Ideas

Some of the items discussed in this meeting were also talked about 12 years ago at the first ITS coalition

Need to find a way to allow cash-based residents to still succeed in an increasingly cash-less world

Some communities pride themselves as being a driving community

Now Actively working with Metrolab

Current 511 site is updated by about 10 minutes - right now just arterials, but looking to expand to more streets

If you ever want to know anything about traffic, WOKB is instantaneous - same with Fox News, CBS News, and a few other sites

IT Department in Tallahassee is working on a program (called Roads) - starting with just FDOT and then seeing what happens after that

Another good place is to go to District 5 - working on their own big data program

Regional architecture - be consistent with regulations for ITS projects

Is there a need to monitor the health of bridges/infrastructure in real time? - possibly - it seems like it's in the works already

o Water level is another consideration - being able to anticipate flooding

North Florida Smart Region Master Plan

STAKEHOLDER MEETING

09-13-16

Agenda 1. Introductions

2. Background

3. State of the Practice

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion and Next Steps

Introduction – What are Smart Cities?

Mobility

Mobility as a Service

Automated/ Connected

Vehicles

Public Transit

Transportation Infrastructure

Parking Monitoring

ITS & Incident Management

Arterial Operations

Others

Health & Human Services

Public Safety

Energy, Waste, Water

A Smart City utilizes innovative and emerging technologies to collect, analyze, and utilize data from many sources to enhance the city’s livability.

Smart City concepts are easily extrapolated to Smart Region concepts.

Introduction – Smart City Components

Vehicle &

Infrastructure

Based Data

Local/Regional

Communications

Network

Data

Management

Data Integration

& Distribution

Data Analytics Actionable

Information

Informed

Decision

Introduction – Project

• To develop a Smart Region Master Plan for the deployment of new transportation systems management and operations (TSM&O) strategies and technologies for North Florida.

Project Purpose

• On transportation and how it is integrated with other public assets and needs, and to define a regional vision for information technologies and communications.

Project Focus

Introduction – Project Goals

Solicit stakeholder feedback

Provide a “State of the Practice” peer review

Develop the Vision for the TSM&O plan

Provide a 5-year TSM&O program

Position the region for grants

Background ITS Master Plan (2010)

◦ Many projects are complete

◦ New technologies have emerged

Path Forward 2040 (2014) LRTP ◦ Identified regional needs and plans for TSM&O strategies

US DOT Smart City Challenge: Connect to Jax – C2JAX: A smarter, better Jacksonville (2016) ◦ More holistic vision

◦ Submitted to FHWA as part of the Smart City challenge

Smart Region Master Plan (Present) ◦ Regional vision

◦ TSM&O Master Plan

ITS Master Plan (2010) Accomplishments

My511 traveler information system

54 miles of freeway management systems

35 miles arterial management systems

Jacksonville Sports Complex contraflow system

JTA I-Stop electronic stop signage at 15 locations

JTA bus automatic vehicle locations (AVL)

ITS transit signal priority

Road Weather Information System (RWIS)

Smart Cities US DOT Smart City Challenge (2016)

◦ $40 Million from U.S. DOT

◦ 78 Applicants, 7 Finalists, 1 Winner

◦ Jacksonville Submitted Application

MetroLab ◦ City-university Partnerships

◦ Part of Smart Cities Initiative in Sept, 2015

◦ Projects in Northeast Florida: ◦ Jacksonville Emergency Response Mapping

◦ Jacksonville Bicyclist/Pedestrian Behavior Analysis

◦ Jacksonville Neighborhood Connectivity Analysis

Industry Efforts ◦ AT&T

◦ Cisco

◦ IBM

• Columbus, OH

Smart City Challenge Winner:

• Austin, TX

• Denver, CO

• Kansas City, MO

• Pittsburgh, PA

• Portland, OR

• San Francisco, CA

Smart City Challenge Finalists:

US DOT Smart City Challenge

Source: US DOT PowerPoint – “Beyond Traffic: The Smart City Challenge” Presented July 2016

US DOT Smart City Challenge

Source: US DOT PowerPoint – “Beyond Traffic: The Smart City Challenge” Presented July 2016

US DOT Smart City Challenge Technology Elements in Original Proposals

Source: US DOT PowerPoint – “Beyond Traffic: The Smart City Challenge” Presented July 2016

US DOT Smart City Challenge - Columbus

Source: Columbus, OH Smart City Application

Smart City Finalist Highlights – Transportation

Mobility challenge Encourage residents to explore alternative modes of transportation

Smartphone applications Quickly compare cost/travel time of different modes of transportation

Energy efficiency Electric vehicle charging stations, improved signal timings, etc.

Services for low income neighborhoods Better public transit options, free wi-fi in public places, etc.

Smart Network Deploy sensors that work together to provide a holistic understanding of the transportation system

US DOT Smart City Challenge Connect to Jax – C2JAX: A smarter, better Jacksonville (2016)

• Replace dated fiber optic cable

• Complete unconnected fiber optic runs

• Complete bluetooth traffic sensor network (BlueTOAD)

• GPS trackers in all public vehicles

Complete ITS Infrastructure

Foundation

• Wireless internet at each of 1,000 intersections

• Expand preemptive signal plan

• Expand smart sensor enabled street light system

• Complete BRT system to appeal to a wider base

Expand ITS Infrastructure

• Prepare for future technologies

• Bike/car share options

• Partner with apps such as Waze

• Intelligent light fixtures

Enhance Capabilities

State of the Practice - Transportation Transit

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)

Personal Rapid Transit

(PRT)

Bike/Ped Safety

Connected Vehicle

Technology

Collision Detection Systems

Smartphone-Based

Applications

Mobility as a Service

Uber/Lyft

Bike Sharing

Car Sharing

Connected Vehicles

V2V with DSRC

V2I with DSRC

Cell-based

Connected Infrastructure

Autonomous Vehicles

Levels of Autonomy

Autonomous Shuttles

Autonomous Taxis

New Mobility

Internet of Things

Smart Parking

Smart Lighting

Traffic Signals

Smart City Components

Vehicle &

Infrastructure

Based Data

Local/Regional

Communications

Network

Data

Management

Data Integration

& Distribution

Data Analytics Actionable

Information

Informed

Decision

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•Roadway sensors • Cell data • Community input

(ie. Waze)

•Radio towers • Fiber network • Cell network

• State ATMS system • Emergency

dispatch system

• Central data warehouse

•Automated algorithms •Human analysis •Warning systems

•Modified signal timings •Updated travel

time info • Suggested

alternate routes •Dispatched

emergency vehicles

• Common congestion times • Frequent crash

locations

Discussion – North Florida Status

Challenges Today

Regional Changes

Challenges Tomorrow

Discussion – Challenges Today

Vehicle &

Infrastructure

Based Data

Local/Regional

Communications

Network

Data

Management

Data Integration

& Distribution

Data Analytics Actionable

Information

Informed

Decision

Discussion – Regional Changes

Vehicle &

Infrastructure

Based Data

Local/Regional

Communications

Network

Data

Management

Data Integration

& Distribution

Data Analytics Actionable

Information

Informed

Decision

Discussion – North Florida in 5, 10, 20 years

Transit Freight Bicycles/

Pedestrians Passenger

Cars

Next Steps – Schedule

Stakeholder Meeting 1

September 2016

Stakeholder Meeting 2

October 2016

Vision Statement Finalized

November 2016

Stakeholder Meeting 3

January 2017

TSM&O Master Plan

Finalized

February 2017

Other Key Dates • Drive Electric Week, North Florida TPO September 16, 2016

• Smart Cities Week, Washington, DC (http://www.smartcitiesweek.com/) September 27-29, 2016

• ITS World Congress, Melbourne, Australia October 10-14, 2016

• ITS Florida Annual Meeting & Expo November 13-17, 2016

• Florida Automated Vehicles Summit, Tampa, FL November 29-30, 2016

• Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, NV January 5-8, 2017

• Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. January 8-11, 2017

Contact Information

Greg Krueger, P.E. Director of Emerging Technologies HNTB Corporation 517.897.5841 gkrueger@hntb.com

Jeff Sheffield Executive Director North Florida TPO 904.306.7512 jsheffield@northfloridatpo.com

Peter Vega TSM&O Program Manager Florida Department of Transportation 904.360.5463 Peter.Vega@dot.state.fl.us