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Volume 1: Technical Proposal and

Broad Agency Announcement Number: DTFH6116R00022 Proposal Title: Accessible Transportation Technology

Management

Research Initiative (ATTRI) Project Duration: 34 months

Approach

Type of Business: Municipal / City Complete List of Subcontractors:

Part A: Cover Page

Lighthouse Central Florida

September 30, 2016

Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. Lynx

Federal Highway Administration Office of Acquisition & Grants Management Office of Contracting Operations 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590

Florida Department of Transportation SODO Orlando Health Florida Hospital MetroPlan Orlando Technical and Administrative points of contact: Charles Ramdatt

Email: dewhyte.mcpherson@

Deputy Director of Public Works City of Orlando 400 S. Orange Avenue

It is with much excitement and pride that the City of Orlando submits the enclosed proposal

Orlando, FL 32801 Phone: (407) 246-3186 Email: charles.ramdatt@

under

the

Accessible

Transportation Technology Research Initiative (ATTRI) Application Development opportunity.

The ATTRI is a joint United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and Federal Highway

Administration (FHWA) initiative to enhance the capability of travelers to reliably, safely, and

independently accomplish their unique travel plans. Our team worked diligently over the past

several months to build a unique program that ties together on-going efforts by the City of Orlando

with the FDOT Pedestrian Safety Program (PedSafe).

Beyond the specific programmatic pieces outlined in our proposal, the City of Orlando possesses two distinct advantages to ensure that our effort is truly transformational, on the largest scale possible. First, we have a culture of collaboration, with unmatched public/private partnerships. We have a proven record of cultivating those partnerships into "big idea" projects, from concept to implementation. Our proposal includes programming to engage under-served communities, as we have done with recent major multi-billion dollar community initiatives. Second, and equally important, we are America's number one destination for visitors and business travelers. This oneof-a-kind platform will allow us to showcase ATTRI program initiatives to more than 60 million annual visitors, not just from America, but around the world.

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Part B: Executive Summary

The City of Orlando is committed to ensuring the safety and reliability of the transportation network for all users. This includes supporting the mobility goals of members of the community with visual, hearing, cognitive, and mobility challenges. Lighthouse Central Florida is a nonprofit organization committed to supporting the vision impaired community with the tools needed to lead independent lifestyles. This organization has two locations in Orlando, one located in the South Downtown neighborhood, the other in the North Downtown neighborhood. As illustrated in Figure 1, both locations are in close proximity to health services and transit facilities that serve local and regional destinations. In addition to the vision impaired community supported by Lighthouse Central Florida, Downtown Orlando has a large number of assisted living and retirement homes. The Downtown Orlando neighborhoods support hundreds of pedestrians per day, many of which are disabled. This area has recently experienced pedestrian fatalities.

Based on these factors, the City will deploy the proposed SafeX program, to support safe intersection crossing for users with disabilities. The basis of this program is to implement technology in areas of the City that experience high volumes of pedestrian activities, and contain destinations such as the Lighthouse Central Florida locations and the Orange County Public Library in downtown Orlando. The proposed SafeX program consists of two major elements:

1. Video Detection Systems 2. Advanced Vehicle Notification

The video detection element will utilize Iteris pedestrian cameras in conjunction with the Iteris traffic cameras already deployed by the City. The cameras will monitor the crosswalk area and detect the presence of a pedestrian, holding the signal phase change until the pedestrian has cleared the crosswalk area. The intention is to give those individuals with disabilities the opportunity to safely cross the roadway intersection before the signal changes. In addition to this, all pedestrian crossing signals will be audible and visual to alert pedestrians of a walk phase.

To further support the safe crossing, advanced notification signs will be placed downstream of each approaching leg of the intersections identified for implementation. These signs will notify drivers of a pedestrian(s) actively in the crosswalk, in advance of the intersection, and encourage heightened driver awareness and caution. This becomes uniquely important to those permissive movements, such as permissive left turns, or right turn on red movements to look out for pedestrians in the area.

This system will use the City's existing dedicated Ethernet over fiber optic transportation communications network. By using the existing network, the system can connect to either Cityowned servers or cloud-based servers to monitor system operations, and notify City traffic management center (TMC) operators of unusual conditions.

Some technical challenges that may be associated with the video detection systems include compatibility with existing technologies deployed in the field, impacts on existing communications, impacts on signal operations, and false detections. Unsignalized intersection crossings located in close proximately to major pedestrian generators within the Pedestrian Activity Centers, will not be covered by the SafeX program, however, the City's comprehensive plan includes provisions to introduce pedestrian beacons at unsignalized crossings.

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SafeX will build upon recent efforts by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) with the development of the PedSafe program. PedSafe projects in high pedestrian activity areas around Central Florida utilized Connected Vehicle (CV) technology to minimize or eliminate pedestrian and bicycle crashes at 3 pilot locations. The locations identified in this proposal will be not redundant deployments as they do not coincide with any of the designated PedSafe pilot locations. The City also hopes to build upon this effort in the future, with further advancements in technological applications, to assist the disabled community utilize the transportation system. This proposal is supported by existing research, Savari's SmartCross application funded by USDOT and the WalkSafe system developed by Dartmouth University. The SafeX program is anticipated to cost approximately $3.7 million and will be fully operational within 22 months. The program will be monitored for 12 months, after which, the City will conduct a pedestrian safety study and evaluate the return on investment for the program. This study will include recommendations for additional deployment areas if the program is deemed successful and accomplishes the following objectives:

? Overall reduction in pedestrian and bike crashes ? Overall reduction in pedestrian and bike fatalities ? Overall number of confirmed alerts issued

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