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Innovative Transportation Trends in Rural America

Arizona Rural Transportation Summit

October 19, 2017

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About NADO

National association for 540 regional development organizations, including emerging network of Rural Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPOs or RPOs)

Promote public policies that strengthen local governments, communities and economies through the regional strategies, coordination efforts and program expertise of the nation’s regional development organizations

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About NADO

Through the NADO Research Foundation, develop training and resources related to:

• Rural/small metro transportation planning, RPO America

• Small business finance

• Economic development planning

• Regional resiliency

• Developing quality of place

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Transportation + Economic Resilience

What we heard from practitioners:

• Economic resilience should be a goal of transportation investment; ability to withstand economic shocks

• Job creation

• Job retention

• Workforce development/access to opportunity

• Placemaking and rooted economies

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Transportation + Economic Resilience

What we heard from practitioners:

• Economic development in transportation involves

deliberate interventions to produce tangible benefits that are specific to the context, are

sustained over time, and make a place more resilient.

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How Do We Get There?

Photo courtesy Southern Tier Central Regional Planning and Development Board

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Broad Engagement

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U.S. 321 & U.S. 78 in Denmark, SCBefore road diet

U.S. 321 & U.S. 78 in Denmark, SCAfter road diet

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Building Wealth in Your Region

12Courtesy WealthWorks.org

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Link Existing Planning Processes and Programs

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Connect to Implementation

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Image courtesy Reese Technology Center, Lubbock, TX

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Image courtesy North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission

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Transformative Changes: Here, and Still ComingIncreasingly, need to plan for innovations in:

• Technology

• Energy

• Mindset shift: human-centered transportation

While still doing broad engagement, linking planning processes and programs, and connecting to implementation

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Technology

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• Connected vehicle (CV) technology: enable cars, buses, trucks, trains, roads and other infrastructure, and our smartphones and other devices to "talk" to one another

• Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology: some aspect of a safety-critical control function (steering, throttle, or braking) occurs without direct driver input

• Source: U.S. DOT Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office, https://www.its.dot.gov/index.htm

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Technology: Colorado DOT RoadX

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• CV: Partner with Panasonic to roll out connected infrastructure statewide, interoperable data platform for real-time info and safety alerts

• CV: Rural highway with virtual guardrails, smart lane markings, goal of zero deaths

• AV: First automated truck delivery in 2016

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Technology: Wyoming DOT Pilot

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• CV investment: 402 miles of I-80 in Wyoming

• vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle to vehicle (V2V) connectivity: roadside alerts, parking notifications, dynamic travel guidance

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Technology: Smart Mobility in Ohio

• U.S. 33 Corridor & Ohio Turnpike

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Technology: Smart Mobility in Ohio

• U.S. 33 Corridor

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Technology: Smart Mobility in Ohio

Project to watch: Transit Tech Ohio

• 2015 TIGER VII grant funds

• 30+ rural transit partners involved with state

• Improve broadband connectivity in rural SE Ohio

– Transit base to transit vehicle communications

• Improve scheduling, dispatching software statewide

– Minimum standards, streamline systems

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Technology: Lessons Learned

• Local government lessons so far:

– Invest in IT systems

– Capital improvement planning

• Learn from rural off-road applications:

– Platooning already exists in mining

– Autonomous tech emerging in agriculture

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Transportation Energy

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• Wired, 10/02/17

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Transportation Energy

Alternative fuels in small town fleets:

• Seneca, SC (pop. 8,000): received 2017 FTA grant to develop first electric-only bus transit system in U.S.

• Dewitt, AR (pop. 3,200): city vehicles using biodiesel produced from waste restaurant vegetable oil and locally grown oilseed

• Opportunity: economic development from transportation energy?

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Human-centered Transportation

• Rethinking mobility: rural car-share– Cantua Creek, CA (pop. 466): low-income, community

van-share pilot, Van y Vienen

– Weekday on-demand “routes,” weekend hourly rentals

– Electric vehicle

– Community development philanthropy– https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/09/a-community-driven-uber-arrives-in-

californias-tiny-farm-towns/539967/

• Rural rideshare – Liberty

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Human-centered Transportation

• Rethinking safety

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Toward Zero Foundation, UK

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Equity?

• Easy to lose focus on equity when implementing new trends

• Not just rural vs. urban, but within rural

• Broad engagement, link planning processes and programs, and connect to implementation

• Make economic resilience meaningful to all residents

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How Do We Pay for all this?

• Opportunities to integrate new trends into existing programs and funding streams

• Raise new revenues

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Raise New Revenue

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Raise New Revenue: Georgia

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• Statewide revenue increase in 2015

– Increase, index fuel excise tax, registration fees

• Local option sales tax referenda approved by 3 rural regions in 2012

– 75% goes toward regionally identified projects

– 25% returned to local governments

– Eligible for lower match rate

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Raise New Revenue: Partnerships

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• LL Bean Foundation sponsors Island Explorer transit service in Acadia National Park

• Trend of community development philanthropy

– Local and regional philanthropies as community organizers and as funders

– May fund small projects, demonstrations, or provide match when needed

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www.RuralTransportation.org.

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Transportation Newsletter.

Additional Resources

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Contact us

Carrie Kissel, Associate Director

ckissel@nado.org | 202.643.9560

Joe McKinney, Executive Director

jmckinney@nado.org | 202.624.5947

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More Trends

• Hyperloop One: New mode?

– First/last mile problems will still exist

– If rural residents/shippers can access it affordably, opportunities to reduce travel times?

• Battery-powered jet travel

– If it works, will it make travel affordable from rural airports?

• Drones: revolutionize small delivery service?

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