JACKSONVILLE TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
adjacent to the Sports Complex/Daily’s
Place and the Doro District, in partnership
with the city of Jacksonville, the Sports
Management Group, the Jacksonville Sheriff
’s Offi ce and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
JTA is currently testing the EasyMile
EZ10 vehicle. EasyMile is building a second
generation vehicle that will be starting
in February. JTA will test operations
over the next two years, rotating vehicles
every six months from the various vendors.
Ford said they will be implementing
robust testing of the vehicles to ensure
they can withstand all of the environmental
conditions and the operating conditions
they need to be concerned with.
“I think we have a bit of a head start
because for 30 years we’ve been operating
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autonomous vehicles, it’s just that it’s been
restricted to an aerial structure with a monorail
beam,” said Ford. “Once we modify that
and get to street level, now it’s a decision of
what type of vehicle and dealing with some
of the technological vehicle control systems;
we’re fast becoming a technology company.”
Th e fl exibility will allow JTA to
quickly expand into planned development,
such as the 70 acres of riverfront
property being redeveloped by Iguana
Investments Florida, which is expected
to have 300 to 500 condominiums, 300
to 500 apartments, 300,000 to 500,000
square feet of offi ce space, 150,000
to 250,000 square feet for retail and
restaurants and 200 to 500 hotel rooms
at full build-out.
“We are also working from an administrative
standpoint and government
relations standpoint, to look at legislation
related to the operation of autonomous
vehicles, not just here in Jacksonville,
but in Florida and at the national level,”
Ford explained, “because there’s a lot of
activity underway and we want to make
sure the rules that are written and the
policies, the funding models as it relates
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JTA’s bus rapid transit features
fewer stops, shorter waits, easier
transfers and frequent trips. It also
has branded stations with ticket
vending machines, streetscaping,
transit signal priority, and some
dedicated lanes and queue jump.
Green Line
• Launched December 2015
• Exceeds more than 52,000 a
trips a month since its launch
• 92% on-time performance
Blue Line
• Launched December 2016
• Averages 36,635 trips a
month since its launch
• 84% on-time performance
According to residential and
non-residential new construction
permits, there has been a halfbillion
dollars in economic
activity within a half-mile of highfrequency
transit corridors in the
last year.
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