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 Campus Sweetwater 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 Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson City of Sweetwater Florida International University Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE Through three UniversityCity Project opportunities:

Proposed Sweetwater, FIU & FDOT Planning Study Efforts Summary Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE & CITT 1

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. Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

For 2012: A Knight Foundation and Sustainable Sweetwater Sub-Area Mobility Study (SAMS) funding request plus an expanded FY12012 TIGER/UniversityCity submittal Knight 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 Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant UniversityCity Proposal Same 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-CAKE Copyright 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 Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

TIGER/ UniversityCity Project elements: Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

TIGER/ UniversityCity Project elements: Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

TIGER/ UniversityCity Project elements: Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

TIGER/ UniversityCity Project elements: Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

TIGER/ UniversityCity Project elements: Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

TIGER/ UniversityCity Project elements: Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

TIGER/ UniversityCity Project elements: Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

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 Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

2012 City Hall Plaza (CHP), CHP Parking & traffic-calmed access roads from SW107th Street with complete street improvements Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

Expanded City Hall Plaza (CHP), CHP Parking & traffic-calmed access roads from SW107th Street with complete street improvements Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

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 Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

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

ATOD SCHEMATIC DESIGN ISSUES Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE & Community Transit

ATOD Components 1)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. Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

ATOD Components 4)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. Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

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 center b)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 Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

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 Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson

TRANSIT GREENWAYS A linear park that provides transport for pedestrians, bicyclists, and via narrow gauge rail tram Orlando, USAStrasbourg, France Thomas Lucido & Associates Archer/Abate/Urbanform Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

MIXED-MODE STREETS IN EUROPE John Zacharias & SOUTH AMERICA Bus Rapid Transit Guide Bogotá, Columbia Amsterdam, The Netherlands Strasbourg, France IMCL Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

PLAZAS THAT GATHER AND HOLD PEDESTRIANS SO AS TO ENHANCE PROPERTY VALUES, HEALTH, SAFETY & TRANSIT ACCESS Baltimore, USA Palma de Mallorca, Spain Vienna, Austria Florence, Italy Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson TFG Google Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

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 investment provides a vision for sustainable growth redefines housing affordability and makes it transparent redevelops underutilized sites develops livability measures and tools aligns HUD, DOT and EPA programs undertakes joint research, data collection and outreach Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

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 Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

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. Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

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 Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

PARK-TO-PARK TRANSIT GREENWAY VIA AN “ARBOR DAY EVERYDAY” STRATEGY Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson 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. Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

To understand TIGER funding priorities: Understand the Sustainable Communities Initiative See and 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 housing Provide more transportation choices Lower transportation costs Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

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 Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

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 147 th Avenue and stops related to Sweetwater (at Maidique Campus, Engineering Center and the proposed multimodal station at Dolphin Expressway and NW 107 th 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 Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

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 Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Arbol (near Islets of Granada, Nicaragua) Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

QUESTIONS ? Tom Gustafson Director, Research Programs Office of Finance and Administration S.W. 8 th Street, PC 525 Miami, Florida Telephone: Copyright 2012 Thomas F. Gustafson Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE