Lakeland US 98 Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)

Project Description: This project will deploy bus rapid transit on US 98. The project will establish a dedicated busway on the US 98 corridor between Interstate 4 and Bartow, serving Downtown and the City's Medical Corridor. BRT will also more efficiently serve the proposed Lakeland Intermodal Center site west of Downtown with connections to future high–speed rail service operated by Virgin Trains or other vendors.

Project Status: Planned

Project Stakeholders:

• City of Lakeland Traffic Operations
• Lakeland Area Mass Transit District dba the Citrus Connection

Project Service Packages:

• PT09: Transit Signal Priority (Lakeland Citrus Connection)

Project Information Flows:

Information Flow	Source Element	Destination Element	Status
local signal priority request	Lakeland Citrus Connection Transit Vehicles	City of Lakeland Field Equipment	Planned
right-of-way request notification	City of Lakeland Field Equipment	City of Lakeland Advanced Traffic Management System	Planned
signal control commands	City of Lakeland Advanced Traffic Management System	City of Lakeland Field Equipment	Planned
signal control status	City of Lakeland Field Equipment	City of Lakeland Advanced Traffic Management System	Planned

Project Functional Requirements (Element - Functional Object):

• City of Lakeland Advanced Traffic Management System - TMC Signal Control
• 1: The center shall remotely control traffic signal controllers.
• 10: The center shall adjust signal timing in respond to a signal prioritization, signal preemption, pedestrian call, multi-modal crossing activation, or other requests for right-of-way.
• 13: The center shall process collected traffic and environmental data from sensors and connected vehicles.


• City of Lakeland Field Equipment - Roadway Signal Control
• 1: The field element shall control traffic signals under center control.
• 10: The field element shall receive request for transit vehicle signal priority.
• 6: The field element shall return traffic signal controller operational status to the center.
• 8: The field element shall report current transit priority status to the center.


• Lakeland Citrus Connection Transit Vehicles - Transit Vehicle Signal Priority
• 1: The transit vehicle shall determine the schedule deviation and estimated times of arrival (ETA) at transit stops.
• 2: The transit vehicle shall send priority requests to traffic signal controllers at intersections, pedestrian crossings, and multimodal crossings on the roads (surface streets) and freeway (ramp controls) network that enable a transit vehicle schedule deviation to be corrected.

Standards:

• US: NTCIP Signal Priority - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Signal System Masters - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Traffic Signal - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: SAE Signal Preemption - WAVE TCP

Project Operational Concepts:

Roles and Responsibilities

• City of Lakeland Traffic Operations
• Operate traffic signal systems for the City of Lakeland.
• Provide transit signal priority for Lakeland Citrus Connection


• Lakeland Area Mass Transit District dba the Citrus Connection
• Obtain traffic signal priority from the City of Lakeland ATMS using City of Lakeland roadside field equipment for all Lakeland Citrus Connection transit vehicles.
• Provide transit traveler information to the agency Web site and local private sector traveler ISPs as well as making it available on all transit vehicles.
• Track and evaluate schedule performance on all Lakeland Citrus Connection transit vehicles.

Last Updated 5/25/2023