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UniversityCity Proposal for FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant

UniversityCity Proposal for FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant. Sweetwater City Hall. FIU Maidique Campus. by. & c omputing. FIU, City of Sweetwater and Miami-Dade Expressway Authority. March 2012. Sweetwater & FIU Innovative Planning and Economic Development.

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UniversityCity Proposal for FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant

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  1. UniversityCity Proposal for FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant Sweetwater City Hall FIU Maidique Campus by & computing FIU, City of Sweetwater and Miami-Dade Expressway Authority March 2012

  2. Sweetwater & FIU Innovative Planning and Economic Development UniversityCity Alliance opportunities to develop a sustainable community linked to the region Knight Foundation grant to further develop a UniversityCity Alliance Shared Vision FY2012 Sustainable Sweetwater Sub-area Mobility Study (SAMS) FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant City of Sweetwater Florida International University Coordinated through Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (I/UCRC-CAKE)

  3. TIGER UniversityCity Capital Components • Advanced Transit & Multimodal Stations • Transit Greenways and Mixed-Mode Streets from Sweetwater City Hall to FIU Green Library • 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 Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

  4. Complete Streets elements Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

  5. Advanced Transit & Multimodal Station element Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

  6. US 41 safe crossing, transit and parking elements Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

  7. Informed Traveler Program element Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

  8. Informed Traveler Program by FIU and IBM with MDX represents a deployment of an innovative congestion relief strategy using: • Community-based Informational Technologies (IT) • Connect Vehicle Technologies (CVT) • Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) • Transportation Demand Management (TDM) • The Informed Traveler electronic wayfinding system could also develop planning technologies and strategies that optimize safe, multimodal, financially self-sufficient transportation systems Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

  9. UniversityCity Sustainable vision For a new prosperity community Women’s Park to Tamiami Park as well as local parks Engineering Center City of Sweetwater 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. ATOD Florida International University Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

  10. UniversityCity Proposal with Miami-Dade Transit Implements FIU/MIC Intermodal Express Bus Service Launches a New Prosperity Community The FIU/MDX study conceptualized a sustainable SR 836 Express Bus Service segment between the FIU Maidique Campus, Miami Intermodal Center (MIC) and Downtown Miami and reviewed pedestrian-oriented improvements, Transit Oriented Developments & Park-and-Ride opportunities, operating bus-on-the-shoulders, feeder buses, and ITS improvements Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

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