The Regional Smart Mobility Assessment is intended to provide community leadership, information technology directors, transit agencies, planning and public works departments, traffic operations managers, and other stakeholders within the MPO area a framework for how emerging technologies can improve and optimize the efficiency of the transportation system and how these technologies can be used to help people using the transportation system understand their options and make better transportation choices based on the information available.

It will provide direction for regional cooperation around technology and how it is poised to become a critical tool for all forms of governance, including transportation, as well as become a way of expressing regional values. For purposes of this assessment, smart mobility refers to the interconnection between people, vehicles, and infrastructure through enhanced technology improvements that optimizes the performance of multimodal transportation services, provides a more sustainable community and environment, and enhances the user experience. The value added to the transportation system via technology should result in increased convenience, safety, and efficiency of operation. The assessment is intended to help define how the transportation system can prepare for and thrive in an environment offering all modes and vehicles that are connected, shared, and even autonomous.

Interim and final study deliverables will be used to 1) inform local jurisdictions of opportunities to improve transportation locally and regionally through investments in technology, 2) identify critical characteristics of connected systems as they pertain to multimodal infrastructure along with methods to interface with individual users, 3) describe how service and data sharing agreements could be structured between local, state, public, and private stakeholders of the transportation system, 4) identify the location and type of communication infrastructure needs throughout the region, and 5) detail how investments in technology can reduce traffic and emissions, improve health and safety, benefit economic development, and enrich the transportation planning process, and 6) identify opportunities for private‐sector collaboration and investment.

The RFP and schedule are available here.