City of Tampa Smart Mobility Division

Description: The Smart Mobility Division is responsible for operating and maintaining the City of Tampa's traffic signal system, managing the street lighting system and managing traffic signal–related projects.

Inventory Elements:

• City of Tampa CAV Field Equipment
• City of Tampa Field Equipment
• City of Tampa TMC

Projects:

• City of Tampa ATMS Expansion
• City of Tampa Coast Bike Share / Motorized Scooter Transportation
• City of Tampa DMS Expansion
• FDOT District 7 I-275 Integrated Corridor Management (ICM)
• FDOT District 7 I-4 FRAME
• HART Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Expansion
• HART Downtown Tampa Autonomous Transit
• Hillsborough County C2C Communications
• Hillsborough County MPO Data and Analytics Platform
• Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot

Roles and Responsibilities:

City of Tampa ATMS Expansion Roles and Responsibilities
• Provide incident information to other traffic management and public safety agencies.
• Coordinate emergency plans, incident responses, and resources with the county EOC/warning points and local EOCs.
• Coordinate evacuation and reentry plans with the county EOC/warning points and local EOCs.
• Coordinate incident response for incidents on or adjacent to county-owned roadways with PWDs, public safety agencies, and EOCs in surrounding counties and municipalities, including scheduled event responses.
• Coordinate traffic information with FDOT District 7 and adjoining cities.
• Receive road weather information from field equipment.
• Obtain traffic images and traffic flow data from City of Tampa CCTVs and field sensors, and maintain operational control of all field equipment.
• Operate traffic signal systems on city-owned arterials.

City of Tampa Coast Bike Share / Motorized Scooter Transportation Roles and Responsibilities
• Coordinate and share traveler information with all other traveler information providers in the region.
• Provide support for bike-sharing, scooter other innovative micro-transit services.

City of Tampa DMS Expansion Roles and Responsibilities
• Provide traffic information to travelers using municipal DMS devices.

FDOT District 7 I-275 Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Roles and Responsibilities
• Adjust signal-timing patterns in response to incidents.
• Provide incident information to travelers using traffic information devices, such as DMS devices, on municipally owned roadways, and through local ISPs and Web sites.
• Coordinate emergency plans, incident responses, and resources with the county EOC/warning points and local EOCs.
• Provide maintenance resources in response to incidents on municipally operated arterials.
• Coordinate emergency traffic signal control with the county EOC/warning points.
• Obtain traffic images and traffic flow data from City of Tampa CCTVs and field sensors, and maintain operational control of all field equipment.
• Operate traffic signal systems on city-owned arterials.
• Operate traffic network safely and efficiently with utililization of Connected Vehilcle technologies.
• Provides security for CAV communications between vehicles and the roadside.
• Provide emergency signal preemption for local fire vehicles.

FDOT District 7 I-4 FRAME Roles and Responsibilities
• Provide maintenance and construction information to regional traffic operations, and to the traveling public using portable DMS devices.
• Coordinate maintenance and construction activities with other county and city maintenance operations and FDOT District 7 maintenance operations.
• Coordinate maintenance or construction requests from RTMCs.
• Coordinate maintenance resources for incidents with FDOT District 7 maintenance and construction operations, and other county and city maintenance and construction departments.
• Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from county fire/EMS agencies, the county sheriff, local police/fire/EMS agencies, the FHP, 911 emergency call centers, and county EOCs.
• Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from regional county traffic management systems.
• Receive AVL information from city PWD vehicles.
• Receive road weather information from field equipment.
• Distribute maintenance and construction work plan information and asset restrictions to regional traffic agencies, regional transit providers, regional emergency services, the media, private rail operations, and multimodal service providers.
• Maintenance vehicles provide automated maintenance status information to the city roadway maintenance and construction operations, as well as local equipment repair facilities.
• Manage work zones for all county maintenance and construction activities, and monitor work zone safety with county field equipment and vehicles.
• Perform maintenance of ITS field equipment owned by the city.

HART BRT Expansion Roles and Responsibilities
• Operate traffic signal systems on city-owned arterials.

HART Downtown Tampa Autonomous Transit Roles and Responsibilities
• Obtain traffic images and traffic flow data from City of Tampa CCTVs and field sensors, and maintain operational control of all field equipment.
• Operate traffic signal systems on city-owned arterials.
• Operate traffic network safely and efficiently with utililization of Connected Vehilcle technologies.
• Provides security for CAV communications between vehicles and the roadside.

Hillsborough County C2C Communications Roles and Responsibilities
• Provide incident information to other traffic management and public safety agencies.
• Coordinate traffic information and traffic control with Hillsborough County.
• Obtain traffic images and traffic flow data from City of Tampa CCTVs and field sensors, and maintain operational control of all field equipment.
• Perform network surveillance for detection and verification of incidents, and send traffic/incident information and traffic images to local and county public safety agencies and EOCs.

Hillsborough County MPO Data and Analytics Platform Roles and Responsibilities
• Coordinate archiving traffic data with Hillsborough MPO.

Incident Management (Traffic and Maintenance) for West Central Florida Regional ITS Architecture - FDOT District 7
• Adjust signal-timing patterns in response to incidents.
• Provide incident information to other traffic management and public safety agencies.
• Provide incident information to travelers using traffic information devices, such as DMS devices, on municipally owned roadways, and through local ISPs and Web sites.
• Provide maintenance resources in response to incidents on municipally operated arterials.
• Coordinate incident response for incidents on or adjacent to county-owned roadways with PWDs, public safety agencies, and EOCs in surrounding counties and municipalities, including scheduled event responses.
• Coordinate maintenance resource response to incidents in the municipality with local public safety agencies.
• Perform network surveillance for detection and verification of incidents, and send traffic/incident information and traffic images to local and county public safety agencies and EOCs.

Information Dissemination for West Central Florida Regional ITS Architecture - FDOT District 7
• Coordinate emergency plans, incident responses, and resources with the county EOC/warning points and local EOCs.
• Coordinate evacuation and reentry plans with the county EOC/warning points and local EOCs.
• Provide traffic and road network information to local transit agencies.
• Provide traffic information in a coordination effort to the FDOT statewide C2C information network.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using municipal DMS devices.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using municipal public information systems, private companies, FL511, and the media.
• Receive AMBER Alerts and other wide area alert information from the county EOC/warning points.

Maintenance and Construction for West Central Florida Regional ITS Architecture - FDOT District 7
• Provide maintenance and construction information to regional traffic operations, and to the traveling public using portable DMS devices.
• Coordinate maintenance and construction activities with other county and city maintenance operations and FDOT District 7 maintenance operations.
• Coordinate maintenance or construction requests from RTMCs.
• Coordinate maintenance resources for incidents with FDOT District 7 maintenance and construction operations, and other county and city maintenance and construction departments.
• Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from county fire/EMS agencies, the county sheriff, local police/fire/EMS agencies, the FHP, 911 emergency call centers, and county EOCs.
• Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from regional county traffic management systems.
• Receive AVL information from city PWD vehicles.
• Receive road weather information from field equipment.
• Distribute maintenance and construction work plan information and asset restrictions to regional traffic agencies, regional transit providers, regional emergency services, the media, private rail operations, and multimodal service providers.
• Maintenance vehicles provide automated maintenance status information to the city roadway maintenance and construction operations, as well as local equipment repair facilities.
• Manage work zones for all county maintenance and construction activities, and monitor work zone safety with county field equipment and vehicles.
• Perform maintenance of ITS field equipment owned by the city.

Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot Roles and Responsibilities
• Adjust signal-timing patterns in response to incidents.
• Provide transit signal priority with roadside devices for HART transit vehicles.
• Operate traffic signal systems on city-owned arterials.
• Operate traffic network safely and efficiently with utililization of Connected Vehilcle technologies.
• Provides security for CAV communications between vehicles and the roadside.

Traffic Signal Control for West Central Florida Regional ITS Architecture - FDOT District 7
• Provide interconnection between railroad equipment and traffic signal systems to update signal timing when HRIs are blocked by trains.
• Coordinate emergency traffic signal control with the county EOC/warning points.
• Provide parking demand information to private/public parking facilities to determine parking capacity and traffic implications at facilities.
• Provide transit signal priority with roadside devices for HART transit vehicles.
• Coordinate traffic information and traffic control with Hillsborough County.
• Coordinate traffic information with FDOT District 7 and adjoining cities.
• Obtain traffic images and traffic flow data from City of Tampa CCTVs and field sensors, and maintain operational control of all field equipment.
• Operate traffic signal systems on city-owned arterials.
• Provide emergency signal preemption for local fire vehicles.

Traveler Information for West Central Florida Regional ITS Architecture - FDOT District 7
• Collect traffic and incident information, and provide it to the media and private travelers.
• Coordinate and share traveler information with all other traveler information providers in the region.
• Provide maintenance and construction information to the traveling public using roadside equipment, such as DMS devices and HAR broadcasts, and traveler information systems.