Give a couple more minutes for everyone to join the meeting.
Looks like we have a full house for those that are just joining us Vicki's going through and making sure we get everybody in before we begin the meeting. So good to see everybody. I think most folks recall Janet is on maternity leave so expect her back this summer. So Vicki is taking the lead on the meeting today with primer and myself pitching in so it's a team to replace Jr.
So while we're waiting if you don't mind renaming yourselves if your name isn't fully apparent within the zoom, as well as if you don't mind adding your your name and title and organization within the chat pod. That'll be helpful for us and regarding the meeting minutes.
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Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. For the second part. I'm using my fingers
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Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for a second Transportation Safety Action community meeting. It's great to see everyone can you please, we can go around the room and just introduce yourself and your name, your title and organization. And then Then click Start staff. Let's start first. So my name is Vicki. Swanson. I'm the transportation planner at Sun cog.
Go next Brian pollack. I'm a planner and our transportation modeling and mobility group. I do bicycle pedestrian planning, transit planning and assist with safety planning.
Hi, everybody, I think I know almost everybody here I have exposure manager transportation modeling immobility and kick it over looks like Michelle is next.
Hey, I'm Michelle Fedora woods. I'm transportation and planning manager here at Sun cog and do the tip and RTP. Next, Trevor Layton is on my screen.
Thanks, Michelle. Hi, everyone. I'm Trevor Layton. I'm the Communications Manager for some cog. And next let's go to Sydney.
Hi, everyone. I'm Sydney Jackson, Communication Specialist for some we'll kick it over to I know we have additional so let's go in
is Ian Thompson. I'm a transportation planner here with some cog and I think might be the last Simcock staff. So no one to kick it over on our side.
Yes, so why don't we kick it over then to the rest of the presenters? Maybe Vicki and and I think Pam, I don't know. Jeremy's here. Certainly presenting So Pam let you go next.
Sure, I am Pam Blaisdell. I am with a calm, senior transportation safety engineer. I've been there about a year after 18 years with the Michigan DLT and heavily focused in the safe streets and roads for all and helping some guy out with their applications last year and this year.
Thanks, Pam. And maybe we can kick it over to I don't know if Jeremy's here. I don't think so. But I don't hear him. So maybe Aaron.
Thank you. I'm Erin Milligan. I'm CEO p3 mobility. We are a consulting and software company that introduces a bunch of functionality and approaches to revenue generation in the CB 2x ecosystem and currently working with M tree on the smart intersections project in Ann Arbor and have also been awarded a smart grant in partnership with the road commission for Oakland County and I'll be sharing more about that later in the presentation. And re
Yes, Thank you Aaron Henry Liu. I'm a city director and professor in civil engineering at the University Michigan. Adam
I Adam merchant traffic engineer Macomb County Department of Roads.
Thanks, Adam. I think that's everybody from the presentation side. I don't know Vicki. Do you want to call people out or
we can just go around.
Okay, who wants to go next? But to bring some order to it. I'll go out see who's on my screen. How about Prasad. Let's see at the top of the list.
Everybody Prasanna premium studio writer DPW employee. My title is city traffic engineer. I oversee the traffic engineering division. Back to you. Alex.
How about Sandy? You're muted. Sorry, Sandy. You're muted. How's that? That's better.
Good. Sandy Enos from the office of highway safety planning. I am the rural traffic safety outreach coordinator.
Thanks, Herb. Herb Harris, system safety manager with the Detroit transportation Corporation.
Sure, about Maggie watts.
Um, hello, I'm
Maggie Huntley. I'm the associate transportation planner with watts. Lindsay Yep. I'm Lindsay Wallace, senior planner at St. Clair County Transportation study.
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we'll go to the next person. Andrea, Belinda. Hello everyone. My
name is Andrea strock and I work for MDOT specifically the university region in the planning department. Thank you.
I'm Trevor Brighton. Hey, Trevor.
Hey, Trevor Brighton with the city of Ann Arbor transportation planner.
Thanks, Trevor. Good to see you. Norman.
Norman shank with Lake Erie transit Deputy General Manager.
Thanks, Chuck da Keller with Transportation Improvement Association Director of Engineering. Thanks, Chuck. I'm losing track here. I'm gonna miss somebody. So I apologize because things are moving around on my screen. About Mary Wilma.
Mellie move on moolah. I am the director of Safe Routes to School and I work at the Michigan fitness foundation.
Okay. So repeater
Hello, this is repeated testing. I'm working as a summer intern with the city of Detroit. So, thank you.
Thank you, Elena.
Oh, Elena Deakin the Washington County Road commission, project manager and traffic and safety.
Thanks about Gary caribou bar.
Good afternoon, Gary. Gary houbara with AAA and traffic safety and public affairs. Nice to see everyone.
Thanks Gary. Perry.
Raise Lester with Detroit documenters and outlier me. Okay, thanks very. Emily.
Emily Schneider m dot metro region traffic safety.
Thanks, Emily. Sammy.
Yeah, this is the only county my County Highway engineer.
Good to see Sammy Muhammad
Hello, everyone. I'm Muhammad yesI and I work for Wayne County engineering division. Right.
I'm moving again. So I apologize.
Hi, everyone. I'm Crystal I'm a grants program manager with Michigan fitness foundation.
I'm Naomi. Hi. I'm
Naomi Bailey. I'm with Detroit Public Works complete street and turning for the summer.
Todd Scott.
Yeah. Todd's got Executive Director for the Detroit Greenway coalition.
Thanks, guys. I'm Steve Budzinski.
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got cut off there a little bit. Just your name. Steve Brzezinski, planner three some cog. Thank you. Garrett.
Garrett Olson Livingston County. Road commission Assistant Director of Engineering.
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County traffic engineer TJ
Yeah, afternoon everyone. TJ Connolly from the Royal Commission. Fulton County
Sandy.
Sandy Nelson.
We'll move on Michelle. Nerd. On the show. Oh. I'm here. Hi, Sandy. Thank you.
I'm with the Detroit documenters two. Okay,
thanks, Michelle nurse. She's the co chair of our safety task force and Michelle. Hello, this is large Macomb County Commissioner. Hello, everybody. Thanks for joining us. So I'm just going to open it up. I've missed a few folks. I know because things are moving around. I apologize for that.
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It was someone that came in with the name, Liz's mail. Not sure if you'd be able to rename yourself and potentially introduce yourself
well, if not, again, as mentioned before, if you came in late please make sure that you put your name and your affiliation within the chat pod so that way we can have it for the meeting minutes. And again, if your zoom name isn't obvious, as well, please switch that. You know, hopefully your first and last name. With that I think we turn it over to Vicki to kick off the meeting.
Thanks, guys. Okay, so I'm gonna give a quick update for our Transportation Safety Plan. So the Southeast Michigan Transportation Safety Plan will be adopted at the June General Assembly will be hosted on June 22. Oh, I'm sorry, this is wrong. The June 22 starting at 3pm at the lakes of Taylor's golf course. Registration is still open and we hope to see you all at the GA. The safety plan is currently in the public review phase and it is currently posted on some cosplayfu page. If you'd like to make any comments, please feel free to email them to me. I'll also send the link of the plan in the follow up email after this meeting. The appendices are still being finalized and should be up on our website later this week or beginning of next week. I'll also send a notification when it is online. For April patients after the plan gets adopted, we're planning to update a few online maps in the summer. We're also starting the Road Safety Audit campaign with F H W A will have more information in the fall. We're also preparing our round two Safe Streets crawl campaign, which Brian will talk about more later in this meeting. Next, we have Henry new to present. Harold Liu is a director of M city, the University of Michigan's public private research partnership devoted to transforming mobility He's also a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNM, a research professor at U of M Transportation Research Institute and director of the US Department of Transportation, transportations, region size center for connected and automatic transportation, and then you founded your next generation transportation systems. Stop sharing so he can share his screen.
Thank you Vicki. Let me share my screen. Can you see my screen? Yes. Okay. All right. So I'm going to talk about a system we developed called M side. It's a video based traffic conflict and crash detection system. This is also part of the smart intersection projects sponsored by USD t. So what it is, is that we leverage existing traffic monitoring cameras, and for example psyllium and Arbor has grease smart cameras. And we leverage these existing cameras and then devolver edge cloud system that will enable both online and offline use for a conflict detection. So in the Insight system, what we have is a full stack object detection tracking and state prediction. And then what what is more interesting is that we can also detect intentional traffic conflicts, near misses as well as crashes occurred at these intersections with with these cameras. So as I mentioned, the system itself is a edge cloud system. What that means is that we take advantage of the existing monitoring cameras and then putting an edge computer either in the cabinet or in some other facility, which have internet connection. And then and then what the sensor will do will collect these video data and then forward that to the edge compute. The Edge computer will do the processing and then also, when we detect the object detect these trajectories and also the conflict when conflict happens. We generate these sensitive data sharing messages. We broadcast that through a CV to x devices at this intersection, and that's why we have an edge compute for real time processing. And then at the same time, the data will be also sent over to the cloud and the cloud will further process the data to find you in terms of object detection, tracking, and in particularly will also analyze in terms of the traffic conflict and near misses and also crashes. And then once these are being identified, they will generate the warning messages at the cloud as well. And so so at the edge, we do object detection tracking of the food pipeline. And so it's all started with the low sensor data. The in this case is coming from the video cameras, and then we do object detection. And then because it's a fixed location camera, it's easy for us to to localization for the objects. And then with localization, we'll be able to track these objects in terms of their trajectories, passing through the intersection, and then through these videos and also the trajectories then we'll be able to detect these traffic conflicts at the intersection as well as the crash event. And just to give you a sense in terms of the object detection, if you can see the video this is one of the implementation we have in the State Street and housewares roundabout, paused close to Costco in the city of Ann Arbor. And so we in this particular case, we installed fall Griesemer cameras the reason we have we want to we we don't really need four cameras, but in this case, it's just trying to get better ground shoes. And then so we from that we do object detection, tracking, localization, and then trajectory prediction for the next two seconds as well. And we overlay that trajectory into the Google Map and that's what you can see on the right hand side. And so these green belongs in front of the vehicle. Those are the predicted trajectory in the next two seconds also, and from that we'll be able to detect in terms of the traffic conflict. So for traffic conflict, we do two sort of two parallel processing. One is one one path of processing is from video detection only is from video only, directly. So we train a deep learning neural network to to identify the conflict directly coming from the video. And then because we have the process trajectory data as well we look at in terms of the trajectory of these vehicles as at the same time, and then we'll see whether they are that the distance between these two vehicles getting too close and then for that we will be identifying as a conflict. And then where's these two will? And then we, we combined the information from these two strings of detection and then fuse these information. To that together to decide whether this is a conflict or not. At the moment when the conflict we detected has roughly about 60 to 70 70% of the path to the in terms of accuracy. What which means about two conflict we detected one of these is actually real. And and not only this can detect intent from near misses, but also the crash as well. And so just to give you some some sense in terms of the crash detected and the system being installed into May of 2021. And so we have roughly about two years of data. And on your left, this is one of the conflict detected and you can see there's almost a crash and because of the inner vehicle was able to stop quickly and so the crash was avoided. And I arrived, this will be at the same location. But this one has a crash and I'll both of these detected through the system. So here's some some statistics from that particular intersection at the State Street and housewares and obviously also maintain the Michigan crash facts and so we know every year on to 2022. We know in terms of what what happened from the police report. And then this is just looking at July of 2021 for one week of data and from the Michigan crash report there there were five crashes and we these fire crashes we from our video data, we detect three of those and we and then two additional crash also detected from our system that was not reported in the police report. We also missed two crashes and then we somehow just count from even from the police report we have when we look into the video data we just can't find and that crashes in the in the database and also if you look at in terms of what's the near misses, and what's the reasons for these, for these can lead to these conflict. And at this particular roundabout in the two lane roundabout and most of the traffic conflict occurs because of the failure to yield. I'd say 70% of these are failure to yield and that lead to a conflict and then unnecessarily stop in the middle of the roundabout now has about 18% and then the improper lane usage sometimes people confuse the you know if you add another line you can you cannot turn left you have to you know either go through or turn right. And some of these situations will lead to the conflict as well. And so these are the three approaches we detected from our system. And it's also reported in the police report. And we also did have additional crashes was not in the police report. And as I mentioned we missed two of these we also missed two crashes but we just can't find it from the video even we will we will be trying to find it manually but we can't find it.
And so so so in summary what we have done in this particular system development is trying to look at leveraging the existing camera data utilize that video and to detect the vehicle trajectories and from the trajectory we like to detect the traffic conflict as well as crashes. And the importance of this is in you know traditionally we rely upon the number of requires or number of accidents occurred at the intersection to evaluate the safety performance of a traffic facility. With that we we can actually use not only the crashes but also use the near misses which is you will have a lot more near misses occurred at intersection rather than crashes rather than crashes. So then you have a lot more data and also you have more in you don't have to wait on to you. You have a sufficient number of crashes to evaluate the safety performance. Now you can leverage the near misses and to look at how hard the intersection safety performance is. So we have a number of publications and if you have interest, I can certainly send you those in those papers.
Wiki.
thank you. Okay, next we have Adam unchecked as much as the traffic engineer at the Macomb County Department.
The question are we holding off on the questions or are we allowed to ask questions now?
What do you think should we say hit to the end or
so? So because I have to leave a question for me. I will be happy to happy to answer Yeah.
Yeah. Why don't we do go ahead proceed. We'll take one or two quick questions, but we were real tight for time. One thing I will say is that this is we talked about this and there's not enough time to really give due coverage for each of these three speakers. We're talking about doing perhaps SMU in the fall to have a more thorough discussion about this. So this is to get into it here. And kind of whet your appetite hopefully for more to come. So go ahead Prasanna
in the floor. I lost my question anyway. Jen, the public agency like the city of Detroit, do don't get take advantage of this. I know that's a deep question, but if you can say that, you know, we can have a separate meeting and talk more details, but how can it how can we take advantage of this?
So if I'm sure you have existing cameras, and so so if you have those cameras, we can certainly help you and then the algorithm the system has been developed. It's all right now we are instrumenting now, we're connecting this to more intersections in the city of Ann Arbor. And, you know, let's schedule another meeting. I will happy more than happy to talk about what what it takes. And at the moment is really just adds compute as well as some cloud access.
Great question. Prasad. That's exactly what we were hoping would happen here. So Mr. Grow is work.
Thank you. Thank you.
Anybody else for Henry.
There's a question. Online.
The question is, are you able to infer level of severity to the near misses near miss event? One confusion around the state and elsewhere says that they generate many crashes, but the severity has decreased, as that's definitely and we actually see a lot the near misses we actually also one thing I did not really have time to talk about is violation of traffic rules. At that roundabout. We see many valleys and in terms of lane usage and others as well, although it did not really lead to any crashes or near misses and to answer your question, yes, we kind of look at the in terms of severity by looking at the distance between these two vehicles and also an OS in addition to that we can also look at in terms of the deceleration rate of the vehicle to avoid the crash and so that gave us in terms of what is the potential, the severity of these near misses and crashes? Well,
it looks like Todd Scott, you turn your camera on. Did you want to ask a question?
Well, yeah, maybe I missed this. But was there? Do you incorporate pedestrian traffic as well in his analysis?
We are doing that right now. We just annotated data for pedestrian. And so in fact that we connected to four of these mid, mid block crossing sites in the city of Ann Arbor already because there was existing grease Mark hammer there. And then we just finished our on rotation, pedestrian orientation, and then this will be part of it. That's true. There is also one online one data on the chat is the intent to incorporate in all roundabout in the state. That part that part had.
Yeah, I think to really make sense I think any intersection. I think this could be a value. Add to that quickly, but the technology isn't there at every intersection. You're gonna hear more about similar things. So we got Aaron. When once we met with Henry and his team, we thought, Oh, this is a good opportunity. Let's grow this. Let's talk with Oakland County. We knew they had gotten a grant. That's how Aaron got involved here. We found out she was already working with Henry and to a certain degree and then reached out to Macomb County and those are the ones we knew about. So others may be doing some things. I'd love to hear from you too. And again, because this is a very busy meeting a lot going on with your market anybody short, but we thought this could be an opportunity to whet the appetite and have a really robust discussion during the summer fall. So Vicki, are the next okay.
They have added next he is the traffic engineer at Macomb County Department of Roads, where he has been serving for 20 years. He has his Bachelor and Master's degree in Civil Engineer engineering from Wayne State University. So Adam further share your screen
okay.
Yeah, thank you. Again, I had a merchant from Macomb County. And it's going to build a little bit off of what Dr. Lu already mentioned, not specific to that, but how an agency might be able to use it or what our plans are to include something like this. So it's going to speak about a proactive approach to traffic safety using transportation data. Real briefly about the county you all know of it, I'm sure but there's almost 900,000 residents, 27 communities, and multiple notable industrial and governmental facilities within the county. Come Tech is a facility we've had open. Since 2014. It's we co located for different departments, traffic operations with emergency management, it and sheriff's dispatch, they all work together in the same room. Sheriff dispatch is 24 hours of course in traffic operations is Monday through Friday 6am to 6pm. They do staff for special events outside of those hours. So it features a 50 foot by 20 foot video wall Traffic Operations Group the console in the front and they work with 911 Dispatch during the week. And also emergency management in the same co located facility. So calm tech, its Communications and Technology Center. Briefly as well are it s network Intelligent Transportation Systems. What we have existing it plays into the data in the safety side of it's why I'm mentioning mentioning these briefly, who have 750 signals approximately 300 surveillance cameras 650 connected vehicle roadside units. The county owns their own communication system, wireless and fiber. And we have over 4000 devices on the field traffic signal network. So a lot of those are sending back data in different forms already. So as far as readiness for proactive safety, I'll get to that too. We're not as proactive as we want to be in with the data and the stuff that Dr. Liu mentioned. There's great opportunities in these years to make a change a shift in how we manage our safety programs. So anyways, well we're well positioned we think we're ready to take on the next generation of safety because in a proactive manner, because of what we already have in place, which, for example the contact facility, the traffic operations staff, we have 15 full time staff members, this dedicated solely to traffic operations. And I remember I was here at a time when we had one part time person years ago, so we went from one part time person to 15 full time so we're able to manage new systems very quickly and maintain them as well. crash data, how we currently use it even this year with our safety programs. You know, we have police reports that are filled out for crashes and we get those uploaded annually so we're looking at crashes that are typically a year old or older. With the state police we do have web access to get crashes much sooner within a few days to a few weeks. But we're not able to do as much with that data is we the data we get annually. So anyways, it's static and a little bit older data that we're using, which is had a tremendous value, but the near real time data that was shown in the last presentation and some more information is will be very useful to our operation here. So you know, SS for a safe streets and roads for all that is a new grant program. We were applied last year and were awarded a million dollar planning grant in association with the city of Sterling Heights. And so we're in the process of that right now this year creating a plan to document for the for the safety program here in the county for the future. So the document will include the needs of the community and the goals and the things that need to be achieved and what we should be applying for. But one of the the new the aspects that would be new to such a safety program would be the proactive safety the near real time data, near misses and things that were mentioned in the last presentation. So some of the proactive safety can be used with cameras which was already shown and other devices can give give some information about what's going on safety wise in real time including road sensors. Smartphones is a big one data from smartphones data from vehicles that can be procured and used that we currently don't have but we're planning to move in that direction. So some other datasets that have that are commonly included in projects, you know, near collision events and also heartbreaking and hurt accelerations and other violations some of this information we don't have access to today. But the data is now out there and ready to be consumed. So one brief example of existing data that we get and I'll make a point about this in a moment related to safety but we have this automated traffic signal performance measure system and our traffic signals, the 750 of them, they report their status of everything they're doing every 100 milliseconds. So all of that is captured and analyzed. And here's a little picture of 15 minutes you can see green, yellow and red, you know, a traffic signal cycling for 15 minutes. There's all kinds of data on here and there's dozens of reports and things we can do with data that's just from one minute ago. So this is something we've been using recently and it's an example of near real time data that we're able to use with the 15 people that have time to dedicate to real time operation. We're able to make really good use of this. But building off of that with safety. So we've done a lot of near real time, operations things but that was safety in this kind of new for us and so we want to be able to have that as part of our plan. And that says for a planning grant to plan how we're going to use that and the question that was mentioned, from city of Detroit there is how would an agency use this data? Well, the planning grant will help define what our needs are and identify some of the things and how we're going to use funding in the future. So that's a project that's going on this year, and we're really excited about that. But some of the, for example, heartbreaking. Some of the information that we can have access to from procurement of data through certain services that have access to vehicle data for heartbreaking and other things near misses, is we can make some signal timing changes in real time that we already have in place we can change signal timings from our contact center. It takes about five or 10 seconds. We can change timings very quickly and easily. So when we get to some safety indications, we don't have to apply for funding and wait for a year and then develop plans and implement and then wait for crashes to be reduced. We get some feedback from to two minutes ago or five minutes ago or though or yesterday or last week. And we can the signal timing changes. So there's other safety stuff we'll do of course, you know, physical safety improvements are needed and will be part of the plan but one that we're excited about is the active more real time things we can do with signal timings that we can we can have an impact on hard braking and we can affect how the motors reacts. In some ways put them in a better situation by the signal timing. So using the data together, these are two different data sets and we can use them together to make something useful for us. Also one project we have undertaken this year, a transportation data management and analytics dashboard. So there's a dashboard project we're having stood up for us. We're working on it this year. He uses 25 data sources, sources that we already have available. And some they're static data sources, and some are more more real time than others. So anyways, this this dashboard will combine will ingest all of these data sources with one platform to be able to display those in a dashboard and it also will have the ability to do analytics between datasets. I kind of give an example in the last slide of two different data sets can be used together to provide new information that can be actionable for safety. So we have a five year contract for the dashboard or we're looking to execute that contract this summer and get that started. And so that's part of the safety plan as well. And just briefly summarizing here and wrapping it up as far as we're looking to leverage what we already have which isn't to be minimized. This allows us to us to step in and use of things quickly. So what we have is a extensive communications network 1000s of devices already online that we're providing data of different sorts, usable data, or context facility and 15 full time staff members so we're adding to that the like I mentioned the dashboard contract and more data data sources will be assembled in this place. And with SS for a planning grant, we're going to incorporate the things I mentioned here and how they identify how they're going to be used and all the other safety needs. We need that we have to not just near real time, but that's an exciting one for us, and to be able to analyze this new data.
And that's just a brief summary what we're looking to do. We're excited to use new funding sources and improve traffic safety in Macomb County.
So that's that's all I have there. Thank you. Thanks.
I think we're gonna take a couple quick couple questions. If anyone has been
okay, then I guess we can move on. Let me share my screen
Oh, next we have Erin Milligan. She is the CEO of em mobility, a sufferer and consulting company which supports the private financing and money titration of me to x services. MP mobility is is currently working in partnership with U of M on the US DOT funded smart intersection project and they have been awarded a smart Grant was the road commission of Oakland County. Both of these projects are designed to lead the country in development and deployment of the 2x infrastructure. Erin has a diverse leadership and business background. You don't need to read all of that. Oh, okay. I guess you already introduce yourself, we can just get started then.
And it's p3 Mobility just so. So so we are on a mission to deploy system what we're calling sustainable safety across the country but Oakland County is leading the way along with us. You can go to the next slide. So it is our mission to accelerate the adoption of e to x technology to help solve transportation challenges and those include congestion and safety emissions supply chain bottlenecks the lack of funding for purposes of building infrastructure and also the lack of resources and skills because this is complicated stuff. Most people who are in transportation engineering did not, you know, studied computer science when they were in university and so there's a need to establish public private partnerships where the private teams can come to the table to help build out this ecosystem. And our software specifically introduces a sustainable business model or a way to generate revenue. So I don't know if you guys have been following everything in the V 2x News. It's been a long hard road for V 2x technology. Most people had heard of DSRC technology. You know, back when it was being deployed around the country. There had been a mandate that had GM starting to equip their vehicles with DSRC technology. And then there are a lot of things have happened over the last few years which have really slowed the rollout of this technology. We're not moving forward with DSRC any longer. We're now rolling moving forward with CB 2x, which is a communication functionality that still uses the same dedicated spectrum as DSRC. And there's been a lot of developments that have happened in the last few months that would suggest now is the time the FCC is granting waivers to deploy. In this 5.9 gigahertz spectrum. The IPS America organization has published a national B 2x deployment plan. It's a very helpful document. If anybody's wanting to learn more about how to deploy this technology and what the what the goals for deployment should look like. The US D O T has hosted two different summits that have been collecting input towards the development of their scalable deployment plan. And then there were six smart grants that were awarded across the country for the deployment of V to X technology. The Oakland County project was one of them I will point out that the safe streets for all program also will make monies available for VTX technology or ITVS technology. So if you include reference to that in any planning grant you might be currently working on gives you the opportunity to you know learn in your planning phase about things you might want to do like what Henry talked about. And then and then include them in an implementation grant application that you might want to make and go to the next slide. So as Henry mentioned, we're working on together with a tree on the smart intersections project in Ann Arbor. Our role on that project is a couple of different things. First of all, we're introducing our technology platform to the Ann Arbor connected vehicle environment. And then we will be deploying revenue generation applications we're actually only showcasing the technology. We're not actually collecting revenue on that project because it is a atcm TD project. So it is a is a first research demonstration. But in the Oakland County project, we will be moving from research to real world deployment. And then we've also been charged with writing an implementation guide that can be used by any local agency for purposes of helping them think about how do they go about designing building funding and operating and maintaining CB 2x infrastructure. Again, this is new stuff for most people. Macomb County has done a lot of deployment but that they're quite far ahead in the amount of deployment that they've done. So this implementation guide is meant to help any agencies that might be starting out for the first time. The revenue generating applications that we're introducing in the city of Ann Arbor are a commercial signal priority approach as well as a fleet intelligence product both of which are examples of applications that a public agency could introduce in their jurisdiction in which from which they could generate revenue which can help fund the ongoing operations and maintenance of infrastructure or go towards other economic development initiatives that a jurisdiction might be wanting to undertake. So the smart grant that we've been awarded in partnership with the road commission for Oakland County as a $2 million planning grant, to plan out a sustainable safety model and a prototype deployment of CB 2x technology will likely include the kind of applications you heard Henry talked about earlier in this presentation. There's multiple pieces to this planning, which include showcasing a prototype of the technology as well as planning out the concept of operations for the larger deployment because this is just a plan to deploy at larger scale. We'll be developing a financial model and funding plan for what it would cost to roll out across the county. We will be studying traffic performance and crash history to understand which corridors are the ones of highest priority to deploy on we want to improve safety and congestion on the identified corridors. We need to develop a data management plan for the county. There's a lot of data that comes out of these connected vehicle deployments. As I think you all know, we will be establishing the partnerships that will be involved in both the early prototype deployment as well as the broad scale deployment and that includes especially fleets that we'll be bringing on board for purposes of participating in the project. There'll be a Community Engagement Plan that will be developed because introducing this kind of technology is something most people have never heard of before. They don't know what VTX is, what it means why should why they should care about it. So to engage the community around an understanding of the benefits of this technology is an important part of this project. And then finally, we're developing a workforce development plan which will be done in partnership with some of the local community colleges to make sure that there's trained you know, students qualified staff that are available to work on these projects. You heard Macomb County talk about that, you know, 15 people they've hired since building out the connected vehicle technology around their county. There's a lot of newly skilled people that are needed to support this kind of functionality. In this stage two implementation, we hope to go after the second bucket of monies that are available you can get up to $15 million for an implementation grant. And both both the planning and the implementation do not require matching funds. And we think we'll probably need more than $15 million in order to fund the rollout across the county. So as part of our planning phase, we will be finding the private finance years that are needed in determining the dollars that are needed to augment that federal funding in order to roll it out across the county. Here's a list of the partners and supporters that are part of our project. Some cog did sign a letter of support and that was a valuable thing to us. We are happy to work with any of the members of sem cog to have you know similar discussion and to look at similar concepts to what we're doing in Oakland County. I'm really excited to report that at the last USDA ot summit in Dallas Secretary Assistant Secretary Robert Hampshire, called out the Oakland County project as an example of how V 2x infrastructure should be deployed across the country. So the fact that we got that spotlight from the US DoD is a big deal and it's very exciting that it's happening right here in southeast Michigan. Happy to take any questions.
Thanks, Aaron. Very good. Anybody have any questions? We throw a lot at you with the last three speakers. Great job to all three of you. I don't know if Henry had to leave already, but base job type Adam, as well as Eric. Thank you, Henry. If not, I think we're still on schedule. There. Correct?
Yeah, I think we're pretty good. Okay, so next we have our transportation corner three, Bryant pollack. He will talk about the Safe Streets fault grant program.
Thanks Vicki. Again, yeah, I'm filling in Virginia and the safe streets for all application. For those who either have familiar with the Safe Streets roll program. It is federal funding. proximately a billion dollars in annual funding does require match of 20%. And so there was a round one that would we applied for last year. And we were able to secure part of our ask, in order to build a road safety audit program which we will be providing more information on in the fall. We have to reach out to FH WA and finalize. Everything on that. But we hope to have more safety related planning and your auditing done. But in the meantime, there's the new round, and the app application deadline for that is July 10 of this year. So if you go over to the next slide, could see that you know, eligibility includes MPOs like Sam cog and any political subdivisions of the state. And one important thing to note is that if you do apply, you have to pick between one or two grant types you can only have one application, you can't have multiple. So you need to decide which way that you're going to go with that. Because the next slide explains a little more detail about the different application types. So there's planning and demonstration projects. As well as there's implementation grants. So previously, they titled The planning and demonstration grants just planning. But now it's no open to these types of demonstration projects which $250 million at least has been earmarked specifically for those activities. And based on the legislation 40% of all available funding needs to vote towards these planning and demonstration projects. And as we've learned within the the grant form that we had last Friday, that majority of folks that applied for planning did receive those as were the on the implementation side it was much more competitive. So this round sem cog is specifically looking to do you know that the planning and demonstration grants, if you go to the next slide you say that again, we're looking to build upon like a demonstration grant application by creating a quick build program. So think of it more like the TAP program that we run, but specifically focusing in on quick build scenarios. related to our vulnerable road users. So people walking and biking and taking transit. And so we're thinking that your communities could apply to some cog and some cogs regional review committee or another body would make the decision on whether to fund that project specifically, but we're looking again, making sure that it's eligible from the standpoint of being vulnerable road user related, as well as like on our high Injury Network. And so the types of projects that we're looking at include you know, bollards or painted crosswalks you know, rubber curbs as opposed to, you know, concrete curbs and things that can be pulled out if necessary. So we'll be able to do before and after studies to show like and demonstrate the the safety benefit of those projects. And so we're hoping to have that data, you know, quicker, but we're hoping also that these projects, you know, proved to be beneficial and so that they can continue on, even after the testing period is done. I should also mention that the, you know, we're also probably going to be looking for projects that are a result from the road safety audit program that we're building this fall. Next slide. So, an email should be going out to all registered people who registered for that safe streets for all grant forum. So be looking for that in the inbox. But in the meantime, the information that is within the email is live on our website. So I provide the link to that in the chat pod. It's on our on our safety page. So there you will find a link to multiple items and if you go to the next slide, the first one is a survey. So we would like to know which communities are looking to apply for straight safe streets for all funding. So it's very simple survey three questions you know, are you applying, you know if so, which category are you looking for? And then you're providing just a little bit of information about your grants so that way some cop knows that it's coming. And if you want to write a letter of support, and you know if you want us to write a letter of support or do any other coordination with you, we've got the heads up on that. So encourage you to fill out that survey, especially if you're applying but even if you're not, it's good to know. The next item is our high Injury Network map. So you may be aware that we do have an high Injury Network map within our draft safety plan, but this one is available on ArcGIS online so you can zoom in to anywhere within the region to get more details. So if you go to the next slide just shows an example of you know, one of the the road segments within the high Injury Network and shows the types of crashes that are occurring on that road segment. So that can be helpful for you within your application, as well as like any other studies that you're doing. So with that, you see my contact information over there, feel free to reach out to me and if you have any other questions I'd be happy to answer a few of them now.
All right, well, feel free to reach out to me if you do end up having some questions. Thank you for your time. Turn it back to you Vicki.
Thanks fine. I also inserted in the chat of the survey friend was talking about next we have Michelle fedora. He's the manager for the transportation planning and program group. He will be giving an update from two planners based in process.
Thanks, Vicki. So just um, I've spoken to this group, I believe before and many of you are on this committee that's basically was called the tip ad hoc committee but is now called the tip prioritization committee. It's basically a group of F ACS and other interested individuals. Basically, the purpose is to as we developed our own safety targets in the sun cog region. Just look at additional strategies implementation strategies for reducing fatalities and injuries, obviously. So as part of that, this committee was formed we've met virtually five times from January through May of this past year. We will be looking at one one, can I say one, potentially one maybe maybe additional to that in July and in person meeting to kind of refine what's been discussed so far. So if you go to the next slide, I think where we landed as far as some outcomes for regional policy considerations, is basically having the FA C's incorporate safety into various elements. So basically giving them a menu and having them select how to incorporate this in the best way possible for each fac. So we're going to talk more about this in July. Certainly those of you who are on the committee, we're going to be looking to you to make sure that you make that July meeting so that we can have a robust discussion on exactly what the what the bylaws would look like and maybe even crafting some language. So some of these options have included we've talked about just how to look at the safety data or perhaps your own fac data to incorporate that into project development. Basically trying to investigate how to apply different low cost safety countermeasures as you're doing that, targeting locations to submit for our annual HSMP call for projects to Ahmedabad. Potentially also comparing tip project locations with the high Injury Network. That could be some kind of network or your own network. If you do your own analysis, investigating feasible locations for safety countermeasures in some of those overlapping locations that might be on your tip list and your high Injury Network. Next slide. And another option is obviously to prioritization So incorporating some sort of scoring criteria, a lot of the F ACS already have a scoring criteria. So you know, that would be something that would need to be refined within each fac if they were going to move forward with that or, you know, revise what they have. So certainly, you know, the options would be stated in the bylaws. We'll talk more about other other ideas at the July meeting, and certainly the F ACS will be able to choose one or all of these options. So next slide. The next steps is that July meeting and kind of depending on how it goes, we'll decide if we need further meetings of that group. And then you know, decide on on how to roll it through as far as the FAC participation so any questions on
that? Thanks so much. Less is a question. I hope the next question. Okay, thanks, Michelle. Next we have the new Texan thesis. I'm constantly teaching specialists beginning in a presentation of our walk byte drive, save campaign.
Hello, I'm going to share my screen okay, so hi, everyone. I'm Sydney Jackson. I'm communication specialists with Simon cog. Thanks for having me today. Today I'm gonna be talking about our public education campaign walked by Dr. Save so every fall and spring Simcock shares transportation safety messages and campaign Blitz. This has been going on since 2018. We share these messages with the input and guidance of this committee and other traffic safety partners. And this is to implement the Southeast Michigan Transportation Safety Plan
Okay, so last time I was with this group, I shared a few updates on the campaign website. So at the time we were undergoing redesign and looking for input. This redesign was aimed at making our site more user friendly. So updating the interface and communicating our messages more efficiently. Since then, all of these planned updates I've implemented. Any stakeholder can visit the site to find campaign related resources including safety tip, tips on walking, biking, driving, tip cards, videos, upcoming social media schedule for these blitzes that we put on twice here and contact information for requesting safety materials. So we encourage everyone to go check that website out. Every year, we also do some item distribution, which is our fun safety bundles. So this is tip cards, brochures posters, wristbands, bike lights, and armbands. We also have a breakdown of all those items here. So all seven counties participate in this item distribution and about half of the communities throughout the region have participated with receiving these materials. As of this spring, we've had 144 communities participate 39 partners in organizations and a set all seven counties. So how is this accomplished? It really depends upon our collaboration. We've had communities and partners throughout the region, share our messages. There's M dots dynamic message sign that's shared during our campaign just relying on these partnerships to share these safety messages. So always share a media kit around this Blitz. So similar to the giveaway items and multimedia items are distributed to local governments and partner organizations. The media kit includes links to all these materials, sample newsletter articles schedule for recommended posting on social media. You can follow around like follow along with this schedule or you can just take these materials and use them however you would like. So this may was our most recent Blitz, we shared over 100 educational bundles, and we gathered lots of impressions on social media. So 6 million from paid ads and 15,000 just organically and then over 9 million impressions on TV streaming and radio. So very successful. This fall we are looking to update our messaging So earlier I mentioned that these messages are based on our Transportation Safety Plan which as you all know is going to be recommended for adoption of the June GA. So we're looking to gather some input from this group on which messaging to update or include first, so we're gonna share a survey that will be shared in the chat to rank the emphasis areas from the safe system approach from highest to lowest priority. And this is just in terms of the campaign messaging. All these are high priority but in terms of what will be shared in the fall we would like to you know highlight a few of these at this time. So this survey includes infrastructure, including intersections and Lane departures, road users, including pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists behaviors including speeding impairment and unbelted occupants and systems. Also, like, want to share input at this meeting. Please share that in the chat or maybe we can share some input at the end. We would also like some input on the hands free bell which as of today, this is a law now that will be in effect on June 30. So if anyone's unfamiliar with this that's going into effect it's going to be making, making holding or using a cell phone while driving a primary offense. So that means law enforcement can pull someone over and take them. So again, we'd like maybe just to jump in the chat. Some input about sharing this messages with local communities or you know residents that are wondering what this will look like when it goes into effect.
As for our next campaign Blitz, it will be this coming October, and the exact dates will be shared. Soon. This campaign is only really successful because we have members and partners that participate. So these are a few screenshots of examples of communities participating. We also throughout the year share holiday messaging so in the fall, we talk about daylight decrease decreasing and shorter days and drunk driving messages around Thanksgiving and New Year's. We're also going to be sharing a new video soon that features Michelle Nard and William Miller talking about the updated plan. So we look forward to sharing that soon. Um, also something to mention is that if your community has a specific safety topic that you'd like to see in a video, we'd always like to talk about that and kind of hear what your priorities are. For example, we've heard a lot of folks said like mastering out roundabouts. So if you have a roundabout in your community or another safety topic, let us know and we can plan on creating more content for our next blitz in the fall. That's all I had for today. Sorry,
Sydney, you mentioned the hands free law. When did you say it goes into effect? Oh, god. Yeah, gender. Yeah.
And we'll be sharing more information on that but we'd love everyone's input about you know what they feel is more important, most important to share.
Thanks, Sydney. Nice job. The more questions for
I was gonna jump in real quick and mention that. I mean, we certainly didn't oppose the distracted driving bill but it overlooks the major source of distracted driving, which are the consoles I knew vehicle. So I would hope that we could incorporate that into into any messaging. I mean, there's a reason studies are showing that's more of a distraction, those center consoles with a large iPad on your in the middle your car is more of a distraction than holding up all your hand. So I think it'd be important to at least cover everything.
Yeah, I think and to that end, maybe some messaging we'll work on is as technologies change and enhancements come along. They could introduce new debt or distractions distractions. For drivers. So that's a good point.
Yeah, and even I mean, there's also a lot more studies coming out about the the top the SUVs and the impacts on like ingestion safety. And those who you know, those who are SUVs tend to hit and kill more bikes and pedestrians too, so I'm not sure how you would you know, cover that kind of a topic. That's something that probably needs to be taken up at the state level, but I don't know if there's any political support for addressing that safety issue. Yeah,
vehicle size we get into if you've read our safety plan, so it's, we'll be working more on that and it's also vehicle weight with the electric vehicles and their weight. Going to be exceeding ice vehicles. So oh, that's moto calm that this this group in particular is going to be asked to help us out on so thanks for bringing that up.
I'd also like to say you know, thank you for those who have filled out the survey that we shared. This will also be in the follow up email. So if you don't get a chance to fill it out today. Please do so when we share it.
Moving on, so during this portion of the meeting, we would like see if you have any agency updates or any projects you would like to share with the rest of group before
to kick things off, I have a general question for those who know I know a lot of you participated in our workshop on the streets for all grip program last week. Thanks for doing it. If you weren't able to I know some had conflicts. Vicky and Brian share the video and all the other information that came out and if you have any questions ask us but anybody know one way or the other, whether you intend to or kind of on the fence as to whether you are looking to submit or not. A lot of people did the last time around a lot of people did get grants. There weren't that many that were on the implementation side and we bundled together about 23 in our Ask So anybody have any thoughts on it?
I had one question. I wasn't on the meeting last week. But we for Macomb County we have a planning grant already. But for implementation grants No. You have to have a plan in place. Well, are we not eligible to apply? For implementation on her own yet until her you know a year and a half until it's done? Or are you eligible just because you have a planning grant in process?
Um, I don't know if Pam still here she can answer more definitively or maybe Brian okay, but you're you're covered. You're probably covered by the SAM cog plan. So a lot of the folks that went after implementation they used our plan is back up. But to your question, do you have to use all those action plan grant funds first before you can apply again? I'm not certain
yet. It seems like the plan would have to be completed before so but we could submit through some cog I guess for implementation like last year, I guess.
Yeah. Again, we're going to be going after those demo grants, but it'll be the demo. We're awarded. We will get a lump sum and then and then communities can apply to us for that. So John John was on there call so yeah,
I'll catch up with him on that. So you're not applying for implementation grants on behalf of the community at this point? No. Okay. All right, thanks.
I guess one follow up to the this is fam Adam, as far as the if you're looking to do demonstration grants or demonstration projects, you are 100% eligible to apply for those even though your playing is currently still in progress. That is one of the changes they made this year.
Not implementation but plant but
correct. You are 100% would be eligible to apply for demo projects under planning demonstration. Application. Okay, or even What's your plans still in in works? The gray area is the implementation side if you were wanting to go for a bigger type implementation projects you clarify under the some kind of current plan and the fact that they're adopting it, you know, later this month. It's an eligible plan. So you could apply under that, but that's where the gray area comes into place because you do have the other planning money's still outstanding. You can definitely do demonstration projects.
Okay, thanks, Pam.
Anybody else? I know a lot of folks got planning grants already. So you're gonna be busy finishing using all that but we will be providing some limited technical assistance that folks need that. So I just wanted to offer that up as well. Anything else going on? That you want to share? Good or bad?
I guess I would just like to reiterate the first round of the safe streets for all funding was 100% success rate on the planning side of applications. So there's a lot of presentations today about near miss technology. You know, putting in video detection, things like that. If you if you're a member agency and you have any interest in that you can apply for it, you know the planning supplemental planning for funding to test out some of those if you want to do at certain locations. So you have you know, Macomb County Oakland County is good examples already. But that's money that you could apply to do. A handful of locations to test that out through the planning demonstration grant application, which is not a huge lift, especially in terms of federal funding. And you'd have extremely high chances of receiving that funding.
Thanks, Pam. Yeah, this if you've I think most of us have, if not everybody has gone through the federal grant process and it's usually pretty onerous. This is not it's some work but it's pretty straightforward. And for those that submitted on as part of our bundle you can use the big application that we put together for you as the basis of that probably need to freshen it up a bit. But it pretty much has something that determine on your own now if you choose to. And you cover by the sunken we did get validation from federal highway that even the existing SamCart safety plan covers you. And as you heard today, we'll have that updated plan before these are submitted July 10.
So I know in recent history, the FH wa as well as you know, some cog has been you know, looking at equity as part of the transportation process. So I know John Waterman's on the call over here. I don't know if he's available to chat, but I know that he's been kind of looking for ways to get involved with safe streets for all with from his programs to educate all cyclists. So, John, I don't know if you've made a decision one way or another as far as partnering with a community or something else on going in with a potential grant that you are there, feel free to chime in.
So Brian, this is John Waterman. We haven't identified or put a lot of effort into that stage yet we know that our our concern is making sure as we're doing planning grants to we probably pull a pretty small role with any group we plan with was to be actually field testing these type of technologies with people with disabilities and making sure that we can get some real life data of this is how a person with cognitive impairment hands handles if this person in a chair handles it. And looking at some real life data.
So sounds like the invitations out there. If there is a community they're interested in working with John, again. I know with our road safety audit program we have and decide on everything related to that yet, but there's more information in common we can see how we can make sure that you know all road users are a part of that. So is there anyone else related to interested in learning more about the safe streets for all campaigner interested in
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question that form a question is you heard that that panel discussion today I thought it was excellent by all three? Some cog folks and I know a handful of folks who'd like to hear more. Do you think it would be good for us to pursue a larger discussion with Samuel or something along those lines to have a more thorough discussion and question and answer as well?
Nobody has any thoughts on it? Hey,
Alex, Can I chime in for sure because I certainly welcome the opportunity to have more time. I mean, that everyone on the call heard about once one single application that's part of the smart intersections project. And there's about 10 different ones that are that are being featured in that project. So I think there's just a lot of information to communicate and opportunities for folks to decide as was already mentioned, by Pam, I think, you know, whether they want to experiment with these intelligent transportation technologies through these different federal funding plans that are available to them.
So yeah, I think we're gonna do it. This is something that we've talked about for years and I think all of us want to have happen is let's, let's try to prevent these crashes, especially the severe and fatal crashes from happening. And if we can use this technology to be more predictive, and avoid those crashes, then I think that's something we all want. So learning more about that and how we can use it. understanding it and how it might be applied in individual communities, I think will be very valuable. So bear with
that. And I noticed in the comments that that Macomb County pointed out that vulnerable road user detection, which is what Henry system is he didn't use that that terminology but that is the phrase that is used throughout the industry right now. It protects pedestrians and cyclists as well as the motorists that Henry was speaking about.
Yeah. Great. Thanks Ricky. Yeah, so lastly, I just want friendly reminder for the next two meetings. It'll be September 6 and December 6. That's all for today's meeting. And I think we can add it.
Okay, thanks, everybody. Appreciate it. Some code folks. you want to stick around for a couple minutes, some housekeeping
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