The City of West Sacramento ("the City") is requesting proposals from qualified firms ("Respondents") to provide professional the transportation planning, community outreach and related services needed to develop the West Sacramento Mobility Action Plan ("MAP" or "Project). The MAP is intended to: guide local transportation investments over time to provide residents of all ages and abilities with safe and sustainable choices in how they connect to and move around the city; identify key enabling projects that will both catalyze the development of the City's vision for a smart, multi-modal mobility system and integrate new and emerging technologies, including shared, electric, connected, and autonomous vehicle infrastructure; and develop a lasting framework within the City to support expedient implementation and ongoing integration of multi-modalism, technology and innovation into the transportation planning process.

The MAP will be funded by a FY18/19 Caltrans Sustainable Transportation Planning grant (Senate Bill 1), requiring the selected Consultant to follow all pertinent local, State, and Federal laws and regulations. Per Caltrans, this project is considered a "Non-A&E contract procurement" and will not be administered with federal-aid. Therefore, this project not subject to Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Participation. The total amount payable to the selected Consultant shall not exceed $225,000, with a performance period starting at contract execution and ending no later than February 28, 2021.

The concept for the West Sacramento Mobility Action Plan derives from the City Council's 2016 direction to Transportation & Mobility Section staff to develop a "Public Transportation Strategy" that would examine how best to leverage new and emerging mobility models and technologies to enhance local transit options. Staff presented the first concept of the MAP to City Council in April 2017 with the intention of further refining its scope and purpose, then acquiring grant funds to develop and implement the plan. The MAP will advance city-wide Smart Mobility education and project implementation by leveraging the State DOT's Smart Mobility Framework and Smart City principals. The plan development process will include extensive stakeholder outreach, identify equitable multi-modal "Mobility Hub" locations through conceptual design, prioritize key enabling projects (both near- and long-term) to integrate new mobility and technology (including shared, electric, connected, and autonomous vehicle infrastructure), and position top-ranked projects for funding/implementation. The ultimate goal of the MAP is to jumpstart innovative mobility pilots, partnerships and projects that will increase safe active and multi-modal trips, directly supporting improved community health outcomes, reduced VMT/GHG, and progress toward regional and State climate goals.

Specifically, the MAP is intended to inventory the City's existing mobility system, synthesize existing plans and studies, and conduct innovative outreach to develop tailored, data-driven recommendations on when and where to implement key planning, infrastructure, and policy changes that will be effective in offering residents more sustainable and desirable transportation choices. This will require analyzing the existing transportation network, defining the City's role across modes and services, and conducting analyses to make recommendations on how the City should potentially invest staff resources and funding to better support a Smart Mobility system that works for the community. These recommendations will help the City to define roles for new and shared mobility services, to site and conceptually design multi-modal "Mobility Hubs" at strategic locations, and to identify opportunities to tactically integrate emerging transportation technologies, including electric, connected, and autonomous vehicle infrastructure.

Importantly, the MAP will help the City develop strategies and contingencies alongside an evolving city landscape of transportation and development projects. Examples include multiple major bridge projects (I Street Bridge Replacement, Broadway Bridge, I Street Bridge Deck Conversion, Enterprise Bridge Feasibility Study), the Downtown Riverfront Streetcar, the regional JUMP Bikeshare deployment, the launch of the City's Via Rideshare program, ongoing parking management and fixed route transit operations, and potential future deployments of e-scooter share and/or carshare programs, alongside a multitude of planned supportive infrastructure projects. The City currently lacks a single, cohesive document synthesizing all mobility related plans, such as the Bicycle, Pedestrian, Trails Master Plan and Safe Routes to School Appendix. The MAP will help the City to overlay and evaluate disparate plans, projects, policies and processes to ensure a clear and unified approach for implementation that prioritizes efforts most likely to achieve the City's goals, reduce costs, and enhance the user experience and safety of the mobility system. Identifying the role of technology amidst a traditional transportation planning process will be critical to the MAP development.

Ultimately, the MAP will be used as an implementation tool by providing a broad catalogue of well-defined and prioritized mobility projects and initiatives for the City to leverage when seeking funding, both externally and through internal project prioritization and budget processes. The resulting project list and recommendations should lead to direct implementation and/or development of key plans, projects, pilots or policy reforms, beginning with the top prioritized action items. The resulting MAP will allow the City to jump start changes to make the transportation system more sustainable, better anticipate and mitigate potential negative impacts on vulnerable communities and expand access to new technology and mobility options.

The City encourages submittals from experienced firms/teams specializing in the following: multi-modal transportation planning, including micro-mobility, mobility hubs, curb management, data analytics and intelligent transportation systems; highly innovate community outreach, marketing and engagement, including infographics, concept rendering, mapping, videos, or stakeholder and community events; demonstrated experience developing/conducting meaningful social equity analyses of multi-modal mobility systems; new and emerging transportation trends and technologies to inform a long-range strategy; and/or experience evaluating institutional processes and policies for alignment with broader organizational goals and values.