Path Forward 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan
NEEDS PLAN
While fully autonomous vehicles might be not commonplace for ten or more years, until then there will be a steady ramp-up of automated features and communications technologies in vehicles. Within the ITS Master Plan adopted by the North Florida TPO and included in this plan, the most significant investment needed from public information is providing communication networks to address vehicle-toinfrastructure communication. With these communication networks in place cars will get FDOTprovided insights about accidents, ice, heavy rain, alternate routes and other factors — miles ahead of their current positions. Second, the agencies will get essential data about vehicle speed, wiper activity, tire slippage, traffic density and other factors, which will enable realtime responses (redirecting traffic, variable signs, invehicle alerts) to alleviate danger and congestion.
Phase I Limited Access Highways: consists of all major limited access highways in the region such as I-95, I-295, SR 202 J. T. Butler Boulevard, and I-10. Phase II, Other Limited Access Highways: consists of other limited access highways or high volume corridors in the region such as SR 212 Hart Bridge Expressway, US 90 Arlington Expressway, SR 115 Martin Luther King Expressway, SR 9B, and SR 23 Branan Field Chaffee Road. Phase III, Other State Roads: consists of state roads in the region that are heavily travelled such as, SR 21, SR 13, SR 5/US 1, SR 200, SR 212, SR 90, and SR 15/US 17. Phase IV, Other Arterials: consists of arterials that are listed in the needs arterial corridor list and not included in the previous phases such as SR 102 Airport Road, and SR 105 Heckscher Drive.
Additional information about the roadside infrastructure needs to support automated and connected vehicles is provided in Appendix J.
To provide the vehicle-infrastructure communication capability in the northeast Florida region, dedicated short range communications devices should be installed at every half-mile along priority corridors. These devices are proposed to be installed in four phases to spread the funding needed for deployment.
COST FEASIBLE PLAN
The corridors are divided into four different phases for dedicated short range communications devices deployment:
No funding is dedicated to these needs at this time. During the construction of road capacity projects and ITS deployments, a fiber optic network communications backbone is being deployed incrementally to meet these needs. Once a communications backbone is in place, the costs of the dedicated short range communication devices for roadside to vehicle communications is estimated to be $6.9 million with an annual operating and maintenance cost of $0.9 million per year in present day costs.
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