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FHWA Arizona Division EDC: Innovation for Roadway Safety and Project Delivery

Learn about Every Day Counts (EDC), a state-based model to rapidly deploy proven innovations in transportation. Explore Arizona's successes and the 5 EDC initiatives for enhancing safety and reducing congestion. Discover opportunities for value capture, virtual public involvement, project bundling, and reducing rural roadway departures.

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FHWA Arizona Division EDC: Innovation for Roadway Safety and Project Delivery

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  1. FHWA – Arizona Division EDC: Every Day Counts

  2. Agenda • What is EDC? • Innovation and Arizona’s Successes • EDC 5 Initiatives • Highlighting the 5 priorities from ACTI’s 2018 Innovation Day • Opportunities • Q&A

  3. What is Every Day Counts (EDC)? • State-based model to identify and rapidly deploy proven but underutilized innovations to: • Shorten the project delivery process • Enhance roadway safety • Reduce congestion • Improve environmental sustainability • EDC Rounds are on two-year cycles: • Initiating 5th Round (2019-2020) with 10 innovations • To date: 4 Rounds, over 40 innovations For more information: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/ FAST Act, Sec.1444

  4. FHWA Innovation Programs(in addition to EDC here are some of…) 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 TRL TRL 9 – Market Ready & Proven TRL of 7 or above TRL of 7 or above TRL of 5/6 to 7+ bridging the gapbetween Research & Practice Increased Federal-share for Project-level Innovation TRL of 7 or above Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center

  5. How is Arizona Doing? Sun Cloud megaregion data portal 2018-$1,000,000 Bridge Health Monitoring Virgin River 2015-$768,000 ADOT/Mohave New LED Lighting Queen Creek Tunnel near Superior, Arizona 2014-$1,000,000 first PBES 100-ft clear span 2015-$1,000,000

  6. How is the Arizona Council on Transportation Innovation (ACTI) doing? Karla Dallas

  7. Increased Federal-share for Project-level Innovation Innovative Project Delivery Methods (23 USC 120(c)(3))Up to 5% of the total project cost, not to exceed 100%

  8. How is Arizona doing? Not Implementing | Development | Demonstration | Assessment | Institutionalized

  9. How IS Arizona doing?

  10. How are you doing? Official Harman Scale of Innovation

  11. ~Score~ 2018 Innovation Day EDC 5 Initiatives 3 4 1 2 3

  12. Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian (STEP) 1 • Pedestrian fatalities increased 27% from 2007-2016, while all other traffic deaths decreased by 14%.

  13. STEP – The Spectacular Seven • Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB)(-47%) • Leading Pedestrian Interval (-60%) • Crosswalk Visibility Enhancements(-23-48%) • Raised Crosswalks (-45%) • Pedestrian Refuge Islands (-56%) • Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons (PHB) (-69%) • Road Diet (-19-47%) • (Percent reduction in Pedestrian Crashes)

  14. Value Capture: Capitalizing on the Value Created by Transportation • Promotes the use of value capture mechanisms as part of a mixed funding and innovative finance strategy to accelerate project delivery and provide equitable funding for sustainable transportation investments.

  15. What is Value Capture? 2 Source: NCHRP Research Report 873

  16. Example: Value Capture Funds Corridor Improvement • Virginia Route 28 Transportation Improvement District • District formed in 1987 jointly by Loudon and Fairfax Counties • Maximum tax rate of $0.20 per $100 of assessed value • Raises ~ $23m in revenue • $138m, 14-mile widening from two to six lanes completed in 1991 • District and State share project costs 75/25 https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/project_profiles/va_route28.aspx

  17. Virtual Public Involvement 3 • Virtual Public Involvement is the use of digital technology to engage individuals or to visualize projects and plans.

  18. Virtual Public Involvement • Why change traditional approaches? • Low or inconsistent participation early on • Lack of diverse viewpoints among participants • Language and cultural barriers • Work, family, and social schedules • Expensive and time-consuming for agencies • Changing expectations of 21st Century population • But, this doesn’t mean the public isn’t interested in participating!

  19. Virtual Public Involvement Tools • Mobile Applications • Project Visualizations • Do-It-Yourself Videos • Crowdsourcing Tools • Virtual Town Halls • Mapping Tools • All-in-One Tools • Digital Tools to Enhance In-Person Events

  20. Project Bundling 3 • Project bundling is a process by which a single contract award is used to contract for the preservation, rehabilitation, or replacement of multiple projects.

  21. Project Bundling • • Strategic to achieve agency goals; • • Pro-active and not reactive, constantly looking for opportunities to bundle; • • Decided early in the program planning and project development process to see the full benefits; • • Continual, not a one-time activity, but becomes part of your project delivery decision making process. • Bundling projects leverages project development expertise and achieves economies of scale.

  22. Project Bundling Benefits • Maximize use of existing funding • Utilize agency staff efficiently • Maintain or improve performance measures • Reduce cost • Coordinate NEPA approvals • Expedite project delivery • Coordinate construction staging • Take advantage of economies of scale • Allow better financing opportunities • Increase innovation opportunities

  23. Reducing Rural Roadway Departures 4 • The Mission • Reducing the potential for serious injury and fatal roadway departure crashes on all public rural roads by increasing the systemic deployment of proved countermeasures.

  24. What is a Roadway Departure (RwD)? • FHWA Definition: A crash in which a vehicle crosses an edgeline, a center line, or otherwise leaves the traveled way. 2014-16 Annual Average number of Rural RwD crashes is 197 for AZ

  25. Rural RwD

  26. Rural RwD

  27. Rural RwD

  28. EDC 5 – What’s next?

  29. Activities for Initiatives vary but typically include… • ACTI to EDC-5 Summit in Portland, Nov 9-10 • Webinars • Workshops • Peer Exchanges • Case Studies • Sponsorships (local, regional, & national events) • Technical Assistance • Website (Clearinghouse)

  30. EDC-5 Funding Opportunities: • State Transportation Innovation Council (STIC) Incentive • Up to $100,000 per STIC per year to standardize an innovation • https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/stic/ • Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) Demonstration • Up to $1 million available per year to deploy an innovation not routinely used • https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/grants/

  31. Innovation Deployment News • Weekly newsletter • Bi-monthly magazine To Subscribe: Email: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/ Text: Send “FHWA Innovation” to 468311

  32. FHWA – Arizona Division Questions & Answers

  33. FHWA – Arizona Division Jennifer Brown, FHWA Arizona EDC Coordinator: Jennifer.Brown@dot.govKarla Petty, FHWA Arizona Division Administrator: Karla.Petty@dot.govThank You https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/everydaycounts/edc_5/index.cfm

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