The UniversityCity Project proposal for FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant submittal FEBRUARY 2012 FIU, Sweetwater and Miami- Dade Expressway Authority by

The UniversityCity Project proposal for FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant submittal

FEBRUARY 2012

FIU, Sweetwater and Miami-Dade Expressway Authority

by

Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

FIU Maidique CampusSweetwater City Hall

Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

& computing

Green Library

Sweetwater & FIU plan improve the way they grow together!

1. Knight Foundation grant to further develop a UniversityCity Alliance Shared Vision

2. FY2012 Sustainable Sweetwater SAMS

3. FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant


City of Sweetwater

Florida International

University


Through three UniversityCity Project opportunities:

Proposed Sweetwater, FIU & FDOT Planning Study Efforts Summary



& CITT

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In FY2011, following the UniversityCity Charrette, FIU and Sweetwater made submittals for a Community Challenge Planning Grant, a related Sub-Area Mobility Study (SAMS), a CITT funded Charrette, and a FY2011 TIGER Discretionary Grant in order to refine their UniversityCity vision.



For 2012: A Knight Foundation and Sustainable

Sweetwater Sub-Area Mobility Study (SAMS) funding request plus an expanded FY12012

TIGER/UniversityCity submittalKnight Foundation funds will help to develop a shared

vision for UniversityCity based upon Sustainable Communities Initiative goals/strategies/outcomes using Charrette and American Assembly meetings – Submitted January 2012

SAMS will examine innovative pedestrian-oriented transportation options with financial support from Sweetwater, FIU & FDOT District VI and subject to the Knight Foundation award – February 2012



FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant UniversityCity ProposalSame components as FY2011, but possibly also with:

1. Expanded pedestrian and parking capacity east of City Hall to increase multimodal shift capacity

2. Deployment of an expanded version of the Informed Traveler Program (ITS) that is bi-directional and regional (20% faster trip times, reserved parking and multimodal choice information)

3. Increased capital to ITS ratio

4. More national and regional significance

5. Better utilization of existing MIA, MIC, MDX, MDT, SFRTA and other multimodal assets and more regional coordination

6. TIFIA funding

7. More significant jobs and Socio-Economic Benefits

Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKECopyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

Several FY2011 TIGER/UniversityCity components to be examined/deployed are:Advanced Transit & Multimodal Stations (previously

referenced as Advanced Park-N-Ride and Multimodal Stops or APMS)

Transit Greenways and Mixed-Mode Streets

Linked Parking Structures & Mixed-Use Liner Buildings

Traffic-Calmed Streets

Pedestrian-oriented urban centers with plazas, public squares, courtyards, zaquanes, arcades, pedestrian corridors and other such high quality public places



2011-2012 TIGER/ UniversityCity Project elements:














FIU with IBM and others have conceptualized an Informed Traveler Program that would

involve an initial deployment of:

• Community-based Information Technologies (IT) • Connect Vehicle Technologies (CVT)• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) • Transportation Demand Management (TDM)• Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC)• Highways for Life (HfL) Innovations• Every Day Counts (EDC) Initiatives• Planning technologies and strategies that optimize safe,

multimodal, financially self-sufficient transportation systems



2012 City Hall Plaza (CHP), CHP Parking & traffic-calmed access roads from SW107th Street with complete street improvements



Expanded City Hall Plaza (CHP), CHP Parking & traffic-calmed access roads from SW107th Street with complete street improvements



Informed Travel Program capabilities:

• 20% faster arrivals from destinations to and from MIC

• Reserved parking on arrival is needed

• Multimodal advice before. during and at each trip segment ending



FirstMist ™Fully-Integrated Regional, Sustainable, Tactical Multimodal System of Transport

ATOD SCHEMATIC DESIGN ISSUES



& Community Transit

& Community Transit

& Community Transit

ATOD Components1) Carfree urban centers - consisting of plazas, public squares, and

other public spaces and the adjoining mixed-use and destination buildings.

2) Public spaces are: a) protected from adverse weather conditions (rain, wind, heat, sun, &

cold); b) safe, comfortable, interesting, useful and fun; and,c) consistently more attractive to the five senses (what you see, hear, smell,

taste and feel) at the urban center than at the perimeter

3) Mixed-mode streets, pedestrian corridors and mid-block arcades - surround plazas providing an array of pedestrian, bicycle and tram options in all the right directions and shortcuts to multiple destinations.


ATOD Components4) Narrow pedestrian-oriented mixed-use parking structures:

a) provide an abundance of parking spaces (including those dedicated to transit customers);

b) link above or below grade between two or more parking structures; c) located within the urban built environment surrounding the carfree

urban centers; d) are surrounded by mixed-use buildings & provide for high-quality walking

environments and mixed-mode corridors

5) Safe, traffic-calmed and complete streets:a) where pedestrians and bicycles are accommodated as well as slow moving private vehicle, trams, and community transit vehicles;b) via well-conceived landscaped/hardscaped sidewalks, narrowed traffic lanes, safer traffic intersections, mid-block crossings and street parking.


ATOD Components

6) Transit greenway corridors: a) function as linear parks arrayed outwardly to destinations located within an

approximately one mile radius or less from the urban centerb) are designed for pedestrians and bicyclists as well as small slow moving

pedestrian-oriented fixed-guideway narrow gauge rail trams.

7) Short Distance Paratransit & Community Transit operations - better link for the general population and transportation- disadvantaged populations to destinations within the urban center and a two mile radius


ATOD Components

8) Advanced Transit and Multimodal Stations (ATMS) - adjacent, but functionally separated from, the urban center that provides for quick and efficient access for advanced bus services arriving from major highways and large-scale, pedestrian– oriented, and safe access from high quality public spaces.

9) Limited access highway intersections and ramps – linked to traffic-calmed streets and parking structures around the urban center


TRANSIT GREENWAYSA linear park that provides transport for pedestrians,

bicyclists, and via narrow gauge rail tram

Orlando, USA Strasbourg, France Thomas Lucido & Associates

Archer/Abate/Urbanform



MIXED-MODE STREETS IN EUROPE

John Zacharias

& SOUTH AMERICA

Bus Rapid Transit Guide

Bogotá, Columbia

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Strasbourg, France

IMCL



PLAZAS THAT GATHER AND HOLD PEDESTRIANS SO AS TO ENHANCE PROPERTY VALUES, HEALTH, SAFETY & TRANSIT ACCESS

Baltimore, USA

Palma de Mallorca, SpainVienna, Austria

Florence, Italy


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FY 2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant

US DOT is looking for multimodal projects that are hard to accomplish given current transportation programmatic guidelines that will achieve goals and pioneer livability strategies they have identified especially when the project:

enhances integrated planning and investmentprovides a vision for sustainable growth redefines housing affordability and makes it transparentredevelops underutilized sites develops livability measures and tools aligns HUD, DOT and EPA programsundertakes joint research, data collection and outreach



The TIGER Program enables US DOT to:

Use a rigorous process to select projects with exceptional benefits, explore ways to deliver projects faster and save on construction costs, and make investments in our Nation’s infrastructure that make communities more livable and sustainable

Select projects based upon their ability to contribute to the long-term economic competitiveness of the nation, improve the condition of existing transportation facilities and systems, improve energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improve safety of U.S. transportation facilities, and improve the quality of living and working environments of communities through increased transportation choices and connections.

Focus on projects that are expected to quickly create and preserve jobs and spur rapid increases in economic activity



TIGER funding requires a unique benefit-cost analysis

A benefit-cost analysis measures the dollar value of the benefits and costs to all the members of society. The benefits, for example, are the dollar value of what all the people in society would be willing to pay to have the project built. If people would be willing to pay more than the project actually costs, then the project has positive net benefits (benefits minus costs).

A benefit-cost analysis is not an economic impact analysis that measures “impacts,” which are not the same thing as benefits. Impacts, for example, include the dollar value of all jobs created by a project. While jobs are a good thing, the benefit of a job is not measured by how much we pay the person who has a job, but by the value of what the person produces. Economic impact analysis also measures local effects of a project, not overall effects on society as a whole.

Some projects create positive effects on one community but negative effects on other communities. The “impacts” simply look at the positive effects, while the benefit-cost analysis examines negative effects in relation to positive effects.



FY2012 TIGER capital funding opportunities based upon UniversityCity Alliance

deliberations The FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant program is now open for proposals using

$500 in FY2012 funds provided for the US DOT’s National Infrastructure Investments

Pre-Applications are due February 20, 2011 (Submitted to US DOT) and a full applications are due March 19, 2012

Grants approved in urban areas will range from $10 million to $20 million, a Benefit-Cost analysis must be preformed and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements met.

Planning, preparation, or design costs are eligible as a small part of the overall construction project

A 20% non-federal cost share is required & therefore a minimum project size is $12.5 million

It is anticipated that TIFA funding could be available to support projects 10 fold larger than the TIGER Discretionary Grant

Eligible applications include FIU, Sweetwater, and MDX



PARK-TO-PARK TRANSIT GREENWAY VIA AN “ARBOR DAY EVERYDAY” STRATEGY


Women’s Park to Tamiami Park as well as local parks

City of Sweetwater

Florida International University

Engineering Center

ATOD

If you choose to build 4 miles of transit greenway for about $25 million from Women’s Park to Tamiami Park through Sweetwater and FIU and you choose a small contractor to build a 58 feet segment of transit greenway every night, then a plan can be devised for tree to be planted within each newly constructed segment so you can celebrate Arbor Day Everyday for a year with the planting of a mature shade tree each morning at about 9:00 AM.


To understand TIGER funding priorities: Understand the Sustainable Communities Initiative

See http://www.epa.gov/dced/pdf/dot-hud-epa-partnership-agreement.pdf and http://www.sustainablecommunities.gov/

A high-level interagency partnership was launched by a U.S. DOT, U.S. HUD, and U.S. EPA agreement dated June 16, 2011 that identified housing and transportation goals to be achieved while simultaneously protecting the environment, promoting equitable development, and helping to address the challenges of climate change:

Gain better access to affordable housingProvide more transportation choicesLower transportation costs



http://www.epa.gov/dced/pdf/dot-hud-epa-partnership-agreement.pdf

http://www.sustainablecommunities.gov/

Per that MDX/FIU Agreement, a Express Bus Service Study was completed in December 2010:

Conceptualized a sustainable express bus service segment between the Maidique Campus, MIC and Downtown Miami

Reviewed Transit Oriented Developments & Park-and-ride opportunities, operating bus-on-the-shoulders, feeder buses, and ITS improvements



From this MDX/FIU study & and their own reviews, Miami-Dade County (through MDT)

proposes to submit a FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant proposal

SR-836 Express Enhanced Bus Service from West Miami-Dade County from US41 & SW 147th Avenue and stops related to Sweetwater (at Maidique Campus, Engineering Center and the proposed multimodal station at Dolphin Expressway and NW 107th Avenue to be examined via a proposed CITT study) to Miami Intermodal Center (and other stops as structural improvements are developed)

Planned to operate from 5:30 AM to 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM to 7:30 PM at 10-minute headways with Transit Signal Priority



These Sustainable Communities Initiative efforts, coordinated with the Sweetwater, FIU, Miami-Dade, MDX, FDOT & others,

could: Transform Sweetwater & Miami-Dade

County into a South Florida paradise

Help to achieve FIU’s development plans as a nationally ranked research university and innovators in higher education

Access the high-quality educational and job training services available through improved access to all the institutions of higher education in the Southeast Florida Region

Develop a Southeast Florida Health Sciences and Technology Corridor out of and extending from this Sweetwater/FIU and other UniversityCity developments


Arbol (near Islets of Granada, Nicaragua)


QUESTIONS ?Tom Gustafson

Director, Research Programs

Office of Finance and Administration

11200 S.W. 8th Street, PC 525

Miami, Florida 33174

Telephone: 954 661-7848

Email: [email protected]



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The UniversityCity Project proposal for FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant submittal FEBRUARY 2012 FIU, Sweetwater and Miami- Dade Expressway Authority by