1. Opportunities for Innovation
John Cater
Division Administrator

2. FHWA-COLORADO DIVISION

3. Colorado Division

4. New Technology and Innovation Focus
FAST ACT
Using Discretionary Funding to Support Innovation
EDC4
STIC
AID
ATCMTD
INFRA (Previously FASTLANE)
STSFA
CO Division Supporting CDOT RoadX Program and Technology Peak

6. Competitive Innovation Funding Opportunities
FAST Act Opportunities
Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment Program (ATCMTD, $300 million)
INFRA ($850 million)
Surface Transportation System Funding alternatives (STSFA, $90 Million)
Every Day Counts Initiative- Round 4 (EDC4)
Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID, $50 million)
Statewide Transportation Improvement Council (STIC $5 million)
Over $1.295 billion in funding.
The FAST ACT made many changes that prioritized innovation and emerging technologies. The new funding opportunities were announced as well as the Every Day Counts initiative was codified.
Funding is for the total duration of the program.

7. Every Day Counts Initiative
Program was recently codified with the FAST Act.

8. EDC-4 Innovations

9. Every Day Counts Round 4
Accelerating Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Data Collection
Advanced Hydraulic Modeling Tools
Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (ATSPMs)
Community Connections
Data-Driven Safety Analysis
E-Construction
Integrating NEPA and Permitting
Pavement Preservations (When, Where, How)
Road Weather Management (Weather Savvy Roads and Pathfinder)
Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian (STEP)
Ultra-High Performance Concrete Connections
EDC is on a 2 year cycle and EDC 1 was from and had 16 innovations to chose from. EDC 2 was from 2013 to 2014 and had 13 innovations – 4 were carried over from EDC 1 and EDC 3 has 11 innovations with 2 being carried over from EDC 2. EDC4 has 11 innovations, 3 carried on from the previous round.
CDOT doing 4 out of the 11.
Now I would like to briefly discuss each of the innovations with you.
This afternoon and tomorrow morning, you will have the opportunity to participate in innovation breakout sessions to discuss the innovations in more detail and exchange ideas and perspectives.

10. STIC Incentive Program
Up to $100,000 available to each STIC per year
CO has three years of funding and has funded nine innovative deployment projects since 2014
For more information go to
To help STICs institutional innovations within their State, FHWA launched the State Transportation Innovation Council (STIC) Incentive Program in September 2013.
The State Transportation Innovation Council (STIC) concept is about establishing a group of representatives from various levels of the highway community in each State to comprehensively and strategically consider all sources of innovation.
With a STIC or equivalent forum established in nearly every State (46 formal STICs established to date), we now have a national network to exchange best practices, technologies, and innovations and get them into widespread use across the nation.
The STIC Incentive Program offers technical assistance and funds—up to $100,000 per STIC per year—to support the costs of standardizing innovative practices in a state transportation agency or other public sector STIC stakeholder.
For FY14, a total of $3,517,420 was awarded to 36 STICs to fund a variety of projects.
As we are now in FY15, another $100,000 is available for each STIC, so please take advantage of this funding to help advance innovations within your jurisdiction. Only 8 STICs have received funding thus far in FY15.
TIM examples -
TN is using the funds to develop a TIM training curriculum.
AZ is using the funds for a conference to share TIM best practices with local jurisdictions.
ME is using the funds to prepare a multi-agency information system integration process for reporting incidents.
To be eligible, the State must have a formal STIC with a charter.

12. CO STIC Colorado’s STIC was charted in July 2014.
Members include CDOT, local agencies, MPO’s and FHWA staff.
The council is co chaired by the Assistant Division Administrator (ADA) of FHWA’s CO Division and CDOT’s Chief Engineer.

13. Colorado STIC Project Examples
City of Centennial received funding to complete an ITS Regional Plan
CDOT received funding to pilot an I-Cone workzone technology
CO LTAP received funding to purchase a retroreflectometer for its equipment loan program to local agencies.
CDOT received funding to pilot an eTicketing system

14. Centennial worked with other local jurisdictions, MPO’s, CDOT and FHWA to create a sub-regional ITS paln and Fiber master plan. It’s one of the first initiatives by a local city in CO to integrate fiber, technology and planning.

15. STIC iCone Deployment

16. iCone Technology Proven Safety Benefits Provides:
Travel Time Information
Travel Delay
Speed Advisory
Congestion Advisory
Captures Valuable Data
Proven to be within 3 % of actual speeds
This Data can also be made available to the public through CoTrip or 511.
FHWA with the new FAST ACT required through new legislation that all State DOTs and local transportation agencies implement a relat-time information program for enhanced management of work zone impacts on traffic and safety. The iCone has demonstrated it can help to faciliaty and comply with this.

17. he iCone is a device that beams real-time traffic information over the Internet to a central web site for use by government officials, emergency response personnel, trucking fleets, the public and information re-sellers, including media outlets and GPS services like Garmin.
The product is comprised of a highway construction barrel with a computer chip, circuit board, GPS device, radar sensor and networking capability inside.  The device is the only one of its kind, has been crash test approved by the Federal Highway Administration (“FHWA”), and currently is under evaluation by seven state Departments of Transportation (“DOTs”). The iCone completed its third generation of field testing with the New York State DOT in the fall of 2008.
The iCone traffic beacon features:
Simple operation – drop it on the roadside and flip a switch to activate
Autonomous – power budgeting and board design result in weeks of operation without recharging
Universal coverage – special satellite modems provide network communications on every road in North America
High accuracy positioning – GPS identifies the exact lane that is closed
Traffic speed detection – average speeds are transmitted to measure congestion
Durable construction – water-proof, shock resistant, one moving part (the switch)
Full support lease arrangement – simple lease model covers all costs of communications, servers and web-based information delivery
Data processing – traffic reporting and monitoring
iCone Set Up

18. Accelerated Innovation Deployment Program
Incentive funding (up to a maximum of $1,000,000) to offset risk of using an innovation on a project
Eligible projects may be in any aspect of highway transportation including:
Planning, Financing, Operation, Structures, Materials, Pavements, Environment, and Construction
Project must be ready to initiate within 12 months
The AID Demonstration Program provides incentive funding to offset risk of using an innovation on a project. The funding award is for the full cost of the innovation on a project, up to $1 million. A total of $30 million has been allocated to fund the program.
Project must be within 6 months of being ready to initiate and Title 23 eligible.

19. Current AID Projects

20. SMART 25 A new Approach to Ramp Metering
Smart 25 was awarded $1 million towards the total project. It will be the first deployment of its kind in the US. It was originally piloted in Australia.

21. Purpose of Project
Improve travel time and speed performance on I-25 during peak periods by testing an Australian concept that has substantially reduced recurring peak period congestion on a similar freeway.
Pilot Operations- six month operational deployment in 2018

22. E-Construction Deployment
AID and STIC funding are helping to advance E-Construction
Helping to increase project efficiency through a paperless construction administration process:
Digital Signatures
E-ticketing Systems
Digital Management of all Documentation
Has already proven to save time and money, improve communication.

23. Head-Light
HeadLight helps you save time, reduce errors and streamline projects through one central hub that unites all your team members for smarter collaboration and intelligent decision-making. CDOT piloting this software on construction projects this season.
Collaboration-HeadLight acts as one central system all your team members can use to collaborate. Field teams can record and post activity in real time while administrators can access robust reporting tools for intelligent decision-making.
Save time and speed project delivery with real-time data logging, reports and communication. Enable quicker, more timely, and more effective decision-making, since you receive information in real-time from the field or without leaving your desk.
Increased accountability- The need for collaborative and efficient technologies that provide project intelligence is a necessity for today’s projects, not only during construction but also after its completion. Access a virtual window into every active job site with info-rich features like multimedia, alerts and advanced analytics so each member of your project team is informed on project progress.

24. City of Denver- ATCMTD
Connected Traffic Management Center (TMC) and Connected Fleets
Freight Signal Priority and Connected Freight
Safer Pedestrian Crossings for Connected Citizens
City of Denver received an ATCMTD grant.
These initiatives are working towards their overall goal of becoming a smart city.

25. INFRA (Formerly FASTLANE)
Provides dedicated funding for projects that address major issues facing our nation's highways and bridges. Example Projects Include- Freight infrastructure, including intermodal projects. Large projects are eligible for an award minimum of $25 million. Small projects are eligible for an award of a minimum of $5 million. Over $850 million available.

26. Blue is an urban project, green is Rural.

27. Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives (STSFA)
Grant program looking to fund and pilot alternative revenue approaches to fund the National Highway System. $90 million available.
The Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives (STSFA) program’s purpose is to provide grants to States to demonstrate user based alternative revenue mechanisms that utilize a user fee structure to maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund.  $15 million in FY 2016 and $20 million annually from FY 2017 to FY 2020 will be made available for grants for demonstration projects. Applicants cannot exceed $12 million each.

28. CO Road Usage Charge Pilot
CDOT seeking sustainable funding solutions.
CDOT is conducting a four month pilot of the road usage charge.
CO Road Usage Charge Pilot

29. CDOT RoadX Program

30. ROADX FHWA CO Division Supporting: Connected Vehicle Deployment
I-70 Mountain Corridor will be the Testbed
CV Will be deployed as a Testbed on I-70 Mountain Corridor then Statewide if technology proven feasible. Technology will be tested and a testbed will have initial run through deployment this August.
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has partnered with Panasonic to build an ecosystem for connected transportation where smart vehicles, self-driving vehicles, and infrastructure share instantaneous data and information about road and safety conditions, eventually:
Reducing crashes by 80 percent.
Quadrupling the capacity of our highways.
Dramatically improving travel time reliability.
In fewer than 10 years, it's expected that up to 4 million vehicles in Colorado will be "talking" to each other and to the roadway infrastructure. Panasonic and CDOT are poised to build a connected-transportation system and data platform that promises to be the most replicable and impactful of its kind in the United States.

31. For More Information…
John Cater Division Administrator FHWA-CO Division Tricia Sergeson Transportation Specialist EDC Coordinator and Innovation Program Manager FHWA – CO Division
For more information about EDC and our other innovation programs, please visit our EDC web page.