1. UniversityCity Proposal for FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant MARCH 2012 FIU, City of Sweetwater and Miami-Dade Expressway Authority by FIU Maidique Campus Sweetwater City Hall & computing

2. Sweetwater & FIU Innovative Planning and Economic Development 1.Knight Foundation grant to further develop a UniversityCity Alliance Shared Vision 2.FY2012 Sustainable Sweetwater Sub-area Mobility Study (SAMS) 3.FY2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant City of Sweetwater Florida International University Coordinated through Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (I/UCRC-CAKE) UniversityCity Alliance opportunities to develop a sustainable community linked to the region

3. TIGER UniversityCity Capital Components Advanced Transit & Multimodal Stations Transit Greenways and Mixed-Mode Streets from Sweetwater City Hall to FIU Green Library Linked Parking Structures & Mixed-Use Liner Buildings Traffic-Calmed Streets Pedestrian-oriented urban centers with plazas, public squares, courtyards, zaquanes, arcades, pedestrian corridors and other such high quality public places Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

4. Complete Streets elements Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

5. Advanced Transit & Multimodal Station element Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

6. US 41 safe crossing, transit and parking elements Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

7. Informed Traveler Program element Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

8. Informed Traveler Program by FIU and IBM with MDX represents a deployment of an innovative congestion relief strategy using: Community-based Informational Technologies (IT) Connect Vehicle Technologies (CVT) Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Transportation Demand Management (TDM) The Informed Traveler electronic wayfinding system could also develop planning technologies and strategies that optimize safe, multimodal, financially self-sufficient transportation systems Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

9. U NIVERSITY C ITY SUSTAINABLE VISION FOR A NEW PROSPERITY COMMUNITY Women’s Park to Tamiami Park as well as local parks City of Sweetwater Florida International University Engineering Center ATOD If you choose to build 4 miles of transit greenway for about $25 million from Women’s Park to Tamiami Park through Sweetwater and FIU and you choose a small contractor to build a 58 feet segment of transit greenway every night, then a plan can be devised for tree to be planted within each newly constructed segment so you can celebrate Arbor Day Everyday for a year with the planting of a mature shade tree each morning at about 9:00 AM. Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE

10. UniversityCity Proposal with Miami-Dade Transit Implements FIU/MIC Intermodal Express Bus Service Launches a New Prosperity Community The FIU/MDX study conceptualized a sustainable SR 836 Express Bus Service segment between the FIU Maidique Campus, Miami Intermodal Center (MIC) and Downtown Miami and reviewed pedestrian-oriented improvements, Transit Oriented Developments & Park-and-Ride opportunities, operating bus-on-the- shoulders, feeder buses, and ITS improvements Coordinated through I/UCRC-CAKE