TexnologyWhere Texas Meets TechMike Heiligenstein, Executive DirectorCentral Texas Regional Mobility Authority

HOW DO WE GET FROM HERE

The Big Question on Everyone’s Mind

TO THERE

Navigating the crossroads between old and new

OR MAYBE JUST HERE FOR NOW

The Transportation Landscape is Changing Rapidly

ITS / Traffic Management

Fiber Optic Backbone Managed

Lanes/Congestion Pricing

Open Road Tolling

1995-2005 2005 – 2015 2015-2025

How do we strategically invest in emerging technologies with so much uncertainty about the future?

All-Electronic Tolling/Cashless

Video Tolling DSCR/Bluetooth Smart Phones/Tolling

Apps Vehicle Miles

Traveled Tax / User Fee

Connected Vehicles/Corridors

Automated Vehicles On Demand/Shared

Mobility Mobility “disruptors” Mobility As A Service

Our industry has been a leader in adopting new technology

The Texas Sized Challenge

Exurbanization

Limited public transportation

Road-centric

Complex and expansive transportation infrastructure

Numerous transportation providers

Large geographically diverse

Approach: Manage technology disruption proactively through partnerships

Texas Approach: CollaborationA network of public agencies, private sector, and research institutions advancing mobility

• Texas Department of Transportation Technology Task Force

• Texas Innovation Alliance – 8 Regions

FHWA Smart Cities Challenge

Automated Vehicle Proving GroundsCOMMUNITY OF PRACTICE• Sharing and implementing best practices.• Supporting peer projects by sharing lessons

learned.

UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING• Continuous and unified promotion of the

Partnership, its activities, and the Partnership’s mission and objectives.

MAKE TEXAS A LEADER• Early adopters of emerging transportation

technologies• Advance their development, proving, and

deployment.

PROVING GROUNDS• Texas A&M RELLIS Campus• UT Austin and JJ Pickle Campuses• SwRI Campus

What are the Challenges? Jurisdictional independence (central versus local) Disruptive change

‒ On Demand/Shared Mobility‒ Connected Corridors‒ Automated vehicles‒ Mobility as a service

Knowing when or if the time is right for new ideas‒ Cashless tolling‒ Vehicle miles traveled tax‒ Aging infrastructure

People and Industries are Slow to Change‒ Slow turnover of vehicle fleet‒ Desire to own/drive cars

Entire industries are at risk including our own

Austin Initiatives Interagency Group (regional collaboration)

Express Lanes with Park and Ride‒ Joint effort with Cap Metro (regional public transport agency)

‒ On-demand transit

‒ Private providers

‒ Transit hubs/mixed-use multi-modal centers

Regional traffic management

Connected Corridors - ITS enhancements (wrong way driver initiative

Downtown automated bus pilot

Planning for dedicated/automated busways

Pilot Project: Automated Vehicle Corridor

Narrow corridor with limited room for traditional highway Homes directly adjacent Potential automated vehicle test

bed‒ Mass transit vehicles‒ On-demand/shared mobility

services‒ Individual early adopter Level 4/5

vehicles

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