Envisioning North Central Texas: Potential Transportation Innovations

1. Dan Lamers, P.E. North Central Texas Council of Governments March 20, 2012 Envisioning North Central Texas: Potential Transportation Innovations

2. What is Mobility 2035? • Represents a Blueprintfor a MultimodalTransportation System • Responds to Goals • Identifies Policies,Programs, and Projectsfor ContinuedDevelopment • Guides Expenditures ofFederal and State Funds GOALS

3. Metropolitan Transportation Plan Major Policy Issues • Needs Exceed Available Revenue • Can’t Build Our Way Out of Congestion • Maximize Existing System • Use Sustainable Development Strategies to: • Reduce demand on transportation system • Provide multimodal options • Emphasis on Environmental Aspects and Quality of Life Issues of Programs and Projects • Invest Strategically in Infrastructure

4. Multimodal Recommendations

5. Prioritization of Improvements $27.3 • Infrastructure Maintenance • Maintain & Operate Existing Facilities • Bridge Replacements $4.8 • Management and Operations • Improve Efficiency & Remove Trips from System • Traffic Signals and Bicycle & Pedestrian Improvements Maximize Existing System $3.9 • Growth, Development, and • Land Use Strategies • More Efficient Land Use & Transportation Balance $18.9 • Rail and Bus • Induce Switch to Transit $46.2 • HOV/Managed Lanes • Increase Auto Occupancy Strategic Infrastructure Investment • Freeways/Tollways and Arterials • Additional Vehicle Capacity Mobility 2035 Expenditures (Actual $, billions) $101.1

6. Levels of Congestion

7. Mobility 2035 Revenue Enhancements Mobility 2035 - $101.1 B Status Quo - $74.9 B Source: TRENDS Financial Model

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9. Regional Transportation Planning Innovation Potential People Projects Processes

10. Innovation Potential – People Behavior Modification • Auto Occupancy Incentives • Toll and Fare Collection System • Mileage Based User Fees • Lane-Use Decisions • Travel Demand Management

11. Value Pricing Pilot Program IH 30 (Tom Landry Corridor) Upcoming Request for Qualifications to Demonstrate State of the Art Technology in IH 30 Corridor Smart Card Toll and Fare Collection System Usage Tracking and Incentive Crediting User Interface to Lock in Toll Rate

12. Development Comparison • Incremental land value increase • Incremental tax-base growth • May expand to include other elements • Development rights • Share of development profits • Land use planning CRUCIAL to maximize value

13. Innovation Potential – Projects Infrastructure Implementation • Route Automation • Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications • Smart Infrastructure • Incident Clearance • Transit Pulsing • Unconventional Design • Construction Techniques • Alternative Energy Sources

14. Diverging Diamond Interchange

15. High/Higher Speed Rail

16. 8-Hour Ozone Historical Trends Dallas-Fort Worth Nonattainment Area - - - - - - - - - - 2008 Revised Standard = 75 ppb** Goal* 1997 Standard < 85 ppb - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Highest Average at any Given Monitor (ppb) Consecutive 3-Year Periods * Attainment Goal - According to the US EPA National Ambient Air Quality Standards, attainment is reached when, at each monitor, the three-year average of the annual fourth-highest daily maximum 8-hour average ozone concentration is less than 85 parts per billion (ppb). ** Ozone Standard was revised in 2008 to 75 ppb. Designations were put on hold until September 2011, and EPA is now moving forward with making recommendations. ^ Not a full set of data. Current as of October 10, 2011

17. Innovation Potential – Processes Streamlined Data Management and Analysis • Bridge and Pavement Monitoring • Funding and Financing Methods • Environmental and Social Analysis • Data Sharing and Interoperability

18. Priced Facilities

19. Project Development Typical Roadway Project Development Process Project Conception FHWA Decision Project Opens Local Consensus Project Letting Action Environmental Study/Preliminary Design Final Design/PE/ ROW Acquisition Construction Operation Long Range Planning Task 2-5 Years 3-6 Years 2-5 Years 1+ Years Time Planning to Operation: 8-17+ years Litigation/Public Opposition Add 5-10+ Years Project costs increase by 5%-10% for every year of delay, resulting in a $50M increase each month for the region

20. Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) • Two Federal ICM ProjectsDFW Region, San Diego • DFW focuses on US 75 corridor • System to mitigate traffic during incidents • Receives and processes information on incidents and the transportation network • Alternate routes • DMS modes • 511 System with My511 • Schedule: soft launch Summer 2012 US75 ICM Corridor Area

21. 2050 and the Future of Transportation – 2008* • 2010 • Electric shoes with built-in roller skates • Segway Human Transporter will gain serious market share • 2015 • Traditional gas-powered autos will start to decline with electric automobiles and hybrids taking up most of the slack • Flying car era begins with flying drones to deliver pizza and FedEx packages • 2020 • Self-illuminating highways – highways that glow in the dark • 2025 • First attempt at launching the space elevator will fail • Friction-free no-moving-parts energy developed called “binary power” • 2030 • Commercialization of the first binary powered flying vehicles • 2050 • Average vehicle will cost under $5,000; weigh less than 200 lbs.; take less than an hour to manufacture • Fully functioning space elevators *Thomas Frey, Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute and Innovations Editor for The Futurist Magazine

22. Questions? Dan Lamers, P.E. Senior Program Manager North Central Texas Council of Governments dlamers@nctcog.org (817) 695-9263