1. 2016 APTA Sustainable and Public Workshop COTA’s Role in Smart City Columbus Implementation
July 25, 2016
Michael L. Bradley
Vice President of Planning and Service Development

2. COTA Service Area 13 Charter Members 1.1 million service hours
542 square miles
360 fixed route vehicles
60 mainstream vehicles
Funded by Sales and Usage Tax:
¼% permanent
¼% 10 year temporary
13 charter members 2

3. Vision of Smart City Application
Four Deployment Districts
Access to Jobs
Smart Logistics
Connected Residents
Connected Visitors
Sustainable Transportation 3

4. COTA’s Involvement Mobile Eye Shield Technology
CMAX BRT Corridor
Mobile Eye Shield Technology
Connected Columbus Transportation Network
Multimodal Trip Planning/Integrated Common Payment System
Electric Charging Stations Various Park and Ride Locations
Electric Autonomous Vehicles
Integrated Data Exchange
Mass Factory – Compagnon Application
Transit Pass Program – Downtown CBD 4

5. Connected Columbus Transportation Network
Mobile Eye Shield Technology
Crash avoidance technology
Connected Columbus Transportation Network
Use Columbus’s Fiber network
Smart Corridors
100 Traffic Controller Upgrades
Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) Units
12 Bus Stop Pedestrian Warning locations
Traffic Signal Priority 5

6. Sustainable Transportation
Electric Charging Stations
Various Park and Ride locations
Electric Autonomous Vehicles
Easton Transit Center
3 Fixed routes
6 -12 passenger vehicles
Inductance charging stations 6

7. Applications Multimodal Trip Planning Integrated Common Payment System
Mobile Ticketing
Smartcard type system
Kiosks
Mass Factory App & Town Compagnon
Pilot program 50 individuals
People with cognitive disabilities
Transit Pass Program - CBD 7

8. Integrated Data Exchange
Mobile Eye Shield Data
Real time data
Passenger boardings/alightings 8

9. Next Steps Identify project team members Discuss specific scopes
Define timeline
Enter agreement(s) with city of Columbus 9

10. Questions? 10