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Bee Branch Watershed Application, Tab B, Appendix A, (C)TIGER Award and ApplicationCity of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 1 |Page SUMMARY 1)Project Title: Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative 2)Type of Project: Integrated transportation project combining highway, transit and sustainability concepts 3)Applicant Prime Applicant: City of Dubuque, Iowa CCR Number: 1P8H2 DUNS Number:093105302 Contact Person: Teri Goodmann, Assistant City Manager City of Dubuque City Hall, 50 W. 13th Street Dubuque, Iowa 52001 Telephone: 563-589-4110 (work), 563-580-0690 (cell) E-mail: tgoodman@cityofdubuque.org ProjectPartners: Dubuque County, Iowa Dubuque Metropolitan Transportation Study (DMATS) Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) Region 8 Regional Transit Authority (RTA) East Central Intergovernmental Association (ECIA) Greater Dubuque Development Corporation Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce Dubuque Main Street (DMS) IBM Project Location: The project is located in this small urban metro area in Northeast Iowa impacting both urban and rural areas in Iowa. The City of Dubuque is the county seat in Dubuque County in eastern Iowa bounded by the Mississippi River which lies at the junction of three states – Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Dubuque County has an approximate population of 92,714 people (2008 estimate, U.S. Census Bureau) and covers 620 square miles. The overall population density is approximately 151 persons per square mile. The City of Dubuque’s population is estimated at 57,313 (2007 estimate). The Dubuque metropolitan area serves as the main educational, medical, industrial, tourism and cultural center for the region. The area is also the center of the Greater Dubuque Laborshed area, with an entire population of 296,744 in 2008 (Greater Dubuque Development Corporation). Other cities in the communities in the Dubuque metropolitan area include Dyersville, Asbury, Farley, Peosta, Epworth and Cascade. In addition to the metropolitan area of the region, the area served includes rural Jackson (which has previously been designated as an economically distressed area by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and EDA), Jones, Clinton, and Delaware counties in Iowa, as well as Jo Daviess County in Illinois and Grant County in Wisconsin. The project is located in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District. 4)Funding Requested TIGER Federal Funding Requested: $ 49,799,979 Committed Funding/Local Match: $ 87,308,233 Total Project Cost: $137,108,212 5)Project Period:January 2010 - February 2012 City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 2 |Page PROJECT DESCRIPTION Dubuque, Iowa, like so many cities in the United States, faces a disconnect involving citizen choice, the built environment and local policies based upon old data that drive the design of the built environment. With a lack of accurate data on consumer decisions, cities continue to build an environment that works for an unsustainable past instead of a green future. While so many cities have roadway systems that are designed for vehicles only, consumers have begun to demand systems designed for multiple purposes to increase consumer choice, change behavior and preserve the environment. These elements ultimately create better live-work-play connections that restore communities. The City of Dubuque, Iowa and its partners are pleased to submit this proposal requesting federal U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) TIGER funds to implement a comprehensive, integrated regional sustainable transportation strategy, which will serve as a model for communities with populations under 200,000. This strategy will: implement a radically innovative Smarter City intelligent transport solution for automated data collection using pervasive cell-phones and sophisticated analytical and decision support tools that will advise traffic and transit policy design, implementation, and measurement; aggressive public education, outreach and implementation of specific transportation projects; improve regional mobility; create living wage jobs; reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and associated energy consumption and air pollutants; enhance transportation options that serve the diverse needs of area workers and residents with special focus on at risk neighborhoods; and continue to build the metropolitan Dubuque region as a vibrant, livable community providing prosperity and a high quality of life for all its residents. The Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative (DRSI) is an innovative approach to addressing the disconnect between citizens’ choices, the restrictions of the built environment and local policies based upon available data that have driven design of the built environment which in turn drives consumer behavior. Three key components are included in the initiative: 1.Implementation of a radically innovative Smarter City Intelligent Transport Solution (Smarter City ITS) to bedeveloped in partnership with world technology leader IBM,that will advise the design, implementation and measurement of all traffic, transportation and transit policies and projects, including relevant incentive design and infrastructure maintenance. This solution will collect and analyze real-time transportation behavior data using pervasive cell-phone devices for more than ten thousand residents over a two year period. a)This will redesign the region’s public transit system to dramatically improve ridership, efficiency, reliability and convenience to workers, students and residents b)This will drive the implementation of the existing ITS plan that focuses on improving safety and efficiency of traffic flow 2.Construction of a Complete Streets pilot project to be designed based on the Smarter City ITS. This will help revitalize a critical area of downtown Dubuque with walkable and transit-friendly streets, leading to the development of a regional Complete Streets strategy and policy. 3.Construction of a smarter Southwest Arterial, which will complete the regional road network and serve as a model for how communities can build needed new roadways in a way that promotes smart growth and limits sprawling development. The Problem The Dubuque region’s transportation network faces serious challenges. Motorists cannot easily travel between two major regional highways, U.S. 61/151 and U.S. 20, without entering the City of Dubuque’s local street system. The local street system was not designed to meet the commuting and goods movement demands of the 21st Century, The resulting gridlock and congestion reduces travel time efficiencies, City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 3 |Page increases fuel consumption, increases greenhouse gas emissions, and effectively prevents the implementation of a Complete Streets pilot in the city’s urban core. As local modeling demonstrates, the demands upon Dubuque’s transportation network are expected to increase with expected residential growth and commercial and industrial expansion. Furthermore, travelerss in the greater Dubuque area face few sustainable transportation choices, leading to dependency on their automobiles. Many of the region’s local streets were not designed with walking and biking in mind. High fuel prices and changing demographics are creating an increasing demand on public and community transportation. Service providers are increasingly struggling to help clients deal with basic transportation needs as well as alternatives for a livable and equitable lifestyle of choices. The local public transit system also suffers from poor ridership because buses do not go where people want to go, when they want to go. This results in a nearly $1 million annual subsidy. The process of planning and operating the area’s transportation network, transit and choices for walking and biking is challenging because there are no tools for policy and operational decision making that can be based upon robust, reliable real-time data gathering and analytics that can inform planners with accurate baselines, accurate estimates of origin and destination statistics of journeys and models of behavior of motorists and transit users to allow the authorities to incent behavior towards sustainable choices. Dubuque can serve as a model for cities under 200,000 where over 40% of the US population resides.In medium sized cities like Dubuque, individual travelers that are not captive to public transit have no incentive to use it due to its inconvenience and inflexibility. Even if these problems were to be solved such travelers still need to be informed and incented about their choices. There are no tools that allow travelers to have accurate baselines of their carbon footprints due to VMT and the modes of transportation they use and no decision support systems that allow them to compare and contrast alternatives to driving their cars. Project Components The City of Dubuque and its partners seek TIGER funds to launch a comprehensive, integrated and innovative strategy aimed at understanding movement of people and vehicles in real time, improving movement across the region to manage existing assets more effectively, creating transportation options that serve the diverse needs of citizens in an economically and environmentally sustainable fashion and designing walking and biking trails optimally. This strategy also includes the critical component of engaging the public by keeping them better informed of their carbon footprint, the choices they face and the impacts of the choices they make, thus enabling them to become active partners in building a smarter sustainable regional transportation and transit system. Figure 1 below describes this innovation-driven integrated and sustainable approach towards smarter sustainable transportation and transit. All the strategic components build upon each other’s success, and will position Dubuque to be a sustainable transportation model for communities under 200,000 in population. Each of the project components are described in greater detail below. City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 4 |Page NEW TRANSIT •Provide New Mix of Responsive, Agile & Demand driven Services to Incent and Increase Ridership Dramatically •Monitor and Continually Optimize New Mix of Services IMPROVED TRANSPORTATION •Complete Missing Network Link crucial for Economy & Environment •Optimal Sensor Placement, Monitoring and Routing of traffic NEW COMPLETE STREETS •Optimal Design of Bicycle Trails & Pedestrian Walkways •Continuous Monitoring for Safety, Maintenance & Incentive Optimization Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative Smarter City Intelligent Transport Solution •Automated Data Gathering at Individual level using Cell-phones •Personal Real-time Carbon & VMT Dashboards for Individuals •Analytics & Decision Support for City Planners & Individuals •Continuous Monitoring for Sustainable Improvement •Behavior Models Enable Personalized Incentive Design •Optimal Implementation of existing ITS plan Facilitates Enables FacilitatesFacilitates Improves Enables Improves Fig. 1 1.Smarter City Intelligent Transport Solution (ITS) Dubuque plans to work with world information technology leader IBM to design and implement a radically innovative Smarter City Smarter City ITS to provide a comprehensive, real-time data-driven capability for design and implementation of policies and strategies for traffic, transit and urban planning. The goal of the technology is to provide a sophisticated system for collecting and analyzing real-time transportation data in order to improve system efficiency, provide insight for generating a new mix of services that cater to the requirements of the citizenry, and develop a more sustainable transportation system that integrates land use, economic development and transportation planning and is less dependent on cars. A critical aspect of this ITS system is its focus on individuals and their empowerment through information and incentives. The Smarter City ITS will use pervasive sensors such as cell phones to determine the origins and destinations of 10,000 individuals traveling across the region and track multimodal transportation choices over a period of two years to build rich data representations. This will include current transit users as well as current motorists. This rich real-time data will be analyzed by sophisticated data mining algorithms and correlated with weather, environment and economic data, and traffic data including turn volumes and loop counts, to build models of transportation and transit, as well as community-wide behavior. In addition, this data will help generate accurate real-time baselines for the city-wide carbon and VMT footprint. These models in turn will be coupled with modeling and simulation of “What-If” scenarios to provide data driven and facts based-decision support for planning authorities as well as individuals. This will help transportation and transit managers and city planners across the spectrum in planning, implementation, measurement and optimization. Some specific examplesare described below. Traffic The Smarter City ITS will provide the continuous collection of traffic volume data, intersection reports, failure/malfunction notifications, video monitoring, overall control for signal retiming and ability to redirect traffic thus enabling optimal signaling, improved progression, reduced carbon emissions and optimal special event traffic management. The detailed city plan for traffic improvements can be found at www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI. To summarize, this will help implement the regions existing Intelligent Transportation System(ITS) plan in nine priority transportation corridors including those on U.S. 20, U.S. 61, U.S. 151, U.S. 52, IA 32 and the proposed Southwest Arterial through the following improvements. City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 5 |Page Traffic Signals This will link conventional traffic management technology with the Smarter City ITS. a)Monitor traffic and adjust signals and the interconnect system between signals and remote locations. b)Replacing old wire interconnects with fiber-optics to establish a fiber-optic loop c)New signals and dynamic message boards to notify motorist of construction detours and delays with all major road projects and bridge crossings in the region Transit: At the core of a complete overhaul of the regional transit system will be: a)Redesigned transit routes and the overall system so they meet the demands of area residents in terms of reliability and convenience. The City aims to increase transit ridership to five percent of the population as a result of the transit improvements. b)Design incentives to increase transit ridership and measure impact in a closed loop Complete Streets: Insights about people movement will guide retrofitting existing streets as Complete Streets a)Optimally design the Complete Streets pilot project so that it maximizes convenience and accessibility for bicyclists, pedestrians and transit riders. b)Implement land use and transportation planning that prevents sprawl and encourages sustainable economic development. Individual Citizen Empowerment: Personalized decision support for optimal informed choices – citizens manage what they can measure! a)Provide individuals with electronic “dashboards” that allow them to monitor their personal carbon footprints in real time based on their vehicle miles traveled and modes of transport used. b)Enable individuals to measure the impact of their actions and provides decision support for comparing available choices with respect to their metrics of interest The ability of this innovative Smarter City ITS to measure and monitor the impact of policy changes and decisions will allow the City of Dubuque to continually optimize its sustainable transportation system fostering economic development without jeopardizing the environment, and serve as a national model. 2.Construction of the Southwest Arterial: Asmarter, more sustainable roadway The critical component of Dubuque’s transportation strategy is the construction of a vital missing link in the existing regional transportation network, a Southwest (SW) Arterial that connects U.S. 61/151 and U.S. 20.Dubuque plans to construct a 6.1 mile four-lane, hard-surfaced SW Arterial on a new alignment between U.S. 61/151 and U.S. 20. The SW Arterial roadway will have priority 1-access control, providing an alternate, direct and efficient route for traffic through southwestern Dubuque and Dubuque County. The SW Arterial will provide the missing connector to the major U.S. highways in the region and will provide for improved regional traffic flow and reduced travel times. The SW Arterial will reduce traffic congestion on U.S. 61/151 and U.S. 20 (currently service level D and F facilities), as well as the local street system, including Central Avenue (U.S. 52/3) through the downtown and Kelly Lane, which intersects a residential neighborhood. The SW Arterial is expected to reduce travel time for those traveling from Delaware County, Clayton County, and western Dubuque County by 22.95 percent. Based on the analysis of travel patterns from the DMATS transportation planning models, there are 3,600 regional trips per day (as of 2000) from the junction of U.S. 61 and U.S. 151 to the northwest part of City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 6 |Page Dubuque. These regional trips are forecast to increase to 6,700 per day in the year 2025. U.S. 20 carries 28,000 vehicles per day through Dubuque with 6 percent to 10 percent being truck traffic, which, when combined with hilly terrain and numerous traffic signals, cause operational issues which extend to all motorists. U.S. 20 is projected to carry 35,800 vehicles per day by 2020 and 42,000 vehicles per day by 2030. After construction of the SW Arterial, the DMATS model estimates that five percent of the heavy vehicles trips per day will be diverted from all major corridors to the SW Arterial. The SW Arterial will also connect two industrial parks on the west side of the City (Dubuque Industrial Center and Dubuque Industrial Center West) with the Dubuque Technology Center on the south side of Dubuque, providing access to U.S. 61/151 and on to Interstate 80. (see maps on Attachment 1). Since 1996, the Dubuque City Council, Dubuque County Board of Supervisors, DMATS Policy Committee, Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Greater Dubuque Development Corporation have all identified the completion of the SW Arterial project as their number one surface transportation project. (See Attachment 2 for letters of support). Based on IOWA DOT’s Road Segment Benefit/Cost Safety Analysis spreadsheet, from 2001 to 2006, the present value of avoided crash benefits would equal $118,510,998 over the life of the project. The safety benefit-cost ratio is 2.49 to 1 based on a $49,799,979 TIGER grant. Overall, the Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative will reduce traffic crashes by 35 percent on the road network. Cost/safety analysis related to this project can be found at www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI . Working with Iowa DOT and its consultants, the City of Dubuque has developed an enhanced design for the SW Arterial (figure 2). We reviewed the top six resources, guides or rating systems for sustainable design: Dubuque’s Sustainable Initiatives, based 3 sustainable principles, the foundation of this project’s sustainable efforts; Eco-Logical, a regional ecosystem based guide to create integrated transportation and green infrastructure planning projects; Greenroads, a rating system developed to distinguish roadways that are more sustainable than a typical roadway; LEED 3.0 2009 for New Construction, a national standard used by architects, landscape architects, engineers and designers to measure the level of sustainability, primarily on buildings; Sustainable Sites Initiative, a rating system designed to measure the long term sustainability of the developed landscape; and Iowa Green Streets, a rating system aimed at providing Iowa communities a roadmap for making their communities more sustainable. When combined, these guides and rating systems will establish a baseline to ‘score’ sustainability within the SW Arterial project. The development of sustainability criteria for highway and arterial design and construction of the SW Arterial will provide a national model for street projects. (figure 2) The sustainable design focus of the SW Arterial includes four principal categories and five focus areas. The principal categories are: planning, design, construction and post-construction. The five focus areas are: ecological components, health components, materials selection, construction methodologies & procedures, and operations & maintenance. Integration with the Smarter City Intelligent Transportation City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 7 |Page Solution will accomplish the following goals and objectives for a smarter, more sustainable SW Arterial: •Use the provision of transportation to support economic growth and preservation for urban and rural life. •Integrate existing and future land use and transportation planning. •Provide a safe and secure transportation route. •Provide affordable mobility for all. •Minimize the negative environmental effects of transportation. •Provide a multi-modal transportation system including provisions for safe pedestrian, bicycle, public transit, farm equipment and wildlife movement. •Enhance and maintain existing infrastructure. •Coordinate land use and transportation development. • Increase accessibility and mobility options. •Protect the natural and rural environment. •Promote energy conservation and the development of renewable energy resources. •Use existing and proven rating systems as a way to measure the level of achieved sustainability. 3.Complete Streets Pilot Project Insights from the Smarter City ITS about people’s movement, location and route preferences for walking and biking in relationship to businesses and attractions, will drive optimal design of the third component of the Dubuque TIGER proposal – implementation of a Complete Streets plan.The City of Dubuque and its partners plan to conduct a Complete Streets pilot project in the Historic Millwork District in downtown Dubuque, home to over 6,000 employees. The Complete Streets concept involves the design of streets in a fashion that facilitates use by the broad range of users, including drivers, public transportation vehicles and riders, pedestrians, bicyclists, older people, children, and people with disabilities. Dubuque’s Historic Millwork District Master Plan, adopted by the City Council in February 2009, is a critical component of the region’s sustainable economic development strategy, which encourages more people to live and work in or near the center city. The plan calls for the redevelopment of 1 million square feet of historic warehouse space into a mixed use development of 700 housing units and 300,000 square feet of retail/commercial space. An estimated 1,000 residents will live in the Historic Millwork District at full build-out. The Millwork District revitalization plan will create 900 new jobs and enhance the local tax base by $77 million dollars (www.cityofdubuque.org/millworkdistrict ) A study conducted in January 2009 by Economics Research Associates (ERA) identified a shortage of downtown living units. This shortage has only increased since the announcement that IBM will be creating 1,300 new information technology jobs downtown and bring the total number to over 8,300 people working in downtown everyday. A key component of the Millwork District revitalization plan is to redevelop the area street network using the Complete Streets model. The Complete Streets model will produce a more livable environment by creating an area that is easy to use for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, older people and families. It is estimated that 60 percent of the new residents within the Historic Millwork District will work downtown. Redesigning streets for alternative modes of transportation will allow residents to take advantage of their proximity to work and choose walking, biking or mass transit as options. Reducing automobile dependence in the area will decrease vehicle miles traveled and the associated energy use and air emissions. The Complete Streets design will also create a more vibrant area encouraging more businesses to locate in the downtown area. City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 8 |Page TIGER funds will be used to design and reconstruct the street network in the Millwork District and the street connections to the central business district, Port of Dubuque, and the Washington Neighborhood. More specifically, funds will be used to reconstruct the following streets using the Complete Street model: Washington Street, Jackson Street, Elm Street, 8th Street, 9th Street, and 10th Street. Construction of the SW Arterial will also complement Dubuque’s Complete Streets efforts. The Historic Millwork District is currently separated from the traditional downtown by U.S. 52. Non-auto transportation between the Historic Millwork District and downtown is difficult and dangerous due to significant automobile and truck traffic on U.S. 52. Construction of the SW Arterial will redirect significant regional heavy industrial traffic away from downtown streets and eliminate a major barrier to the implementation of Complete Streets connections between the Millwork District and downtown. The City will work with IBM to use the new Smarter City ITS tools to evaluate the effectiveness of the Complete Streets approach in encouraging alternative modes of transportation, reducing vehicle miles traveled, decreasing air emissions, and encouraging new mixed use economic development in and around the center city area. Specifically, IBM and the City will collect real-time data on transportation behavior in the Historic Millwork District and surrounding areas and analyze the results of the data. Based on the results of this Complete Streets pilot project, the City and its partners will develop and implement a Complete Streets policy designed to encourage more transportation choices and create more economic for the entire metropolitan region, and to serve as a nationalmodel for other cities facing the challenge of retrofitting existing streets as Complete Streets Affected Communities The proposed project supports both urban and rural populations, as well as communities suffering from economic distress. The project will benefit the greater Dubuque area, which includes communities in the states of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Construction will take place in the city of Dubuque, and rural Dubuque County (see map on Attachment 3) Overall Benefit The DRSTI helps to solve the region’s transportation problems by: Creating an innovative Smarter City ITS that advises, and improves every aspect of transportation and transit based on real-time data and facts and enables optimal design of new services; Providing transportation planners with instrumentation infrastructure that enables rich real-time data gathering and accurate carbon and VMT baselines for aggregate city-wide traffic along with decision support to enable the design and implementation of smarter choices Providing a more efficient link between U.S. 61/151 and U.S. 20; Improving regional access from U.S. 61 to the northwest Dubuque region; Improving traffic flow and safety conditions on U.S. 61/151, U.S. 52, and U.S. 20; Relieving existing and future congestion on the local collector streets; Improving traffic flow and safety conditions on local roadways; Providing an improved route for expanding and existing companies in the region that have poor access to the south end of the region for delivery of products to Interstate 80; Supporting local and regional land use planning; Incenting and providing for more walkable, livable urban core; Providing individuals in Dubuque their accurate carbon and VMT baselines along with decision support to enable informed personal choices; and City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 9 |Page Encouraging the use of alternative modes of transportation and optimal incentives, thereby reducing traffic demands and carbon emissions. Benefit-cost analysis of the Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative demonstrates that a DOT TIGER investment of $49,799,979 will generate an immediate return on investment of $2,833,434,606 or 56.90 to 1. $49,800,000Energy Savings$106,727,231 Safety Savings$118,510,988 Economic Development$1,672,495,056 Transit revenue$43,198,695 Carbon Reduction/Emissions$12,318,450 Travel Time Savings$880,184,187 $49,800,000Total$2,833,434,606 Benefit : Cost = $2,833,434,606 :$49,800,000 =56.90 : 1 Benefit Total Funding requested Cost PROJECT PARTNERS City of Dubuque, Iowa –The City of Dubuquewill serve as the lead agency on the revitalization of the Dubuque metropolitan area’s transportation system. Dubuque will work collaboratively with its regional partners to develop a sustainable transportation model for communities under 200,000 in population. East Central Intergovernmental Association (ECIA) – ECIA is a membership supported organization of local governmental bodies in Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and Jackson Counties in Iowa. ECIA will provide transportation planning and technical assistance. Dubuque County, Iowa – Dubuque County has been a partner on the SW Arterial project for more than 30 years. Dubuque County designated the SW Arterial as their number one surface transportation project over 10 years ago. In that time span, Dubuque County has partnered with the City of Dubuque to keep the project moving forward locally and regionally. Dubuque Metropolitan Transportation Study (DMATS) – DMATS is the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for the Dubuque urbanized area. DMATS organizes and oversees the long range planning and development of the multimodal transportation system. Iowa Department of Transportation (IOWA DOT) – IOWA DOT has been a long-time funding partner on numerous surface transportation projects in the city of Dubuque and Dubuque County, from roads and bridges, to ITS and safety improvements, to trails and safe routes to schools. IOWA DOT has also partnered with Dubuque to do the property acquisition for the SW Arterial. The IOWA DOT is an active planning partner in the creation of Complete Streets in the Historic Millwork District. Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce – The Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce represents more than 2,000 area businesses that have expressed support for the SW Arterial project and have made redevelopment of the Historic Millwork District a workforce top priority. The Greater Dubuque Development Corporation (GDDC) – The GDDC is the economic development entity for the greater Dubuque area. The GDDC has used the Historic Millwork District and the SW Arterial as a marketing tool for new and expanding businesses in the region. City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 10 |Page Dubuque Main Street (DMS) – DMS is the downtown development entity for the city of Dubuque. DMS coordinates economic activities for a 90-square central business district with more than 250 business and 8,000+ employees. DMS provides the staff for the development of the Historic Millwork district. Region 8 Regional Transit Authority (RTA) – RTA, in partnership with the city of Dubuque, provides transportation services for all citizens so they have access to critical services such as work, education, healthcare, training, nutrition and socialization. The completed SW Arterial will connect the west side of Dubuque to the south end of Dubuque, reducing miles driven by the RTA, gas consumed and greenhouse gases emitted. IBM – IBM is working with Dubuque to create an intelligent system that optimize resources at the macro (traffic, transit, energy), operational and tactical levels, providing actionable, time-relevant data to gain insights and inform forward-looking decisions. GRANT FUNDS AND SOURCES AND USES OF PROJECT FUNDS The City of Dubuque and its project partners request $49,799,979 in TIGER funding for the Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative. The total project cost is $137,108,212. Committed federal funds comprise 20.82% of the project, and the State of Iowa has pledged 13.06% to complete the initiative. Dubuque and its local partners have committed to provide a 29.80% match for the project. DOT TIGER resources would fill the remaining project funding gap of 36.32%. Line Item Previous Investments Local Funds City& County State fundsFederal ApprDMATSTIGER FundsTotal Cost Community Engagement $650,000 $650,000 Millwork Complete Streets (Design)$360,000$187,300 $547,300 Smarter City ITS (Community Engagment, lidhi) $3,792,897$271,991 $3,726,699$7,791,587 SW Arterial (Final Engineering & ROW)$11,473,663$1,070,221$4,280,885$16,824,769 Sub Total $15,626,560$2,179,512$0$4,280,885$0$3,726,699$25,813,656 Millwork Complete Streets (Construction)$254,254$21,429$528,788$804,470 Smarter City ITS (Realtime data gathering, Ingesting data & ITS systems)$4,451,991 $3,022,946$7,474,937 SW Arterial (Final Engineering, Environmental iiii) $2,097,204$8,388,819$10,486,023 SubTotal $0$6,803,449$21,429$8,388,819$0$3,551,734$18,765,430 Millwork Complete Streets (Construction)$254,254$21,429$528,788$804,470 Smarter City ITS ( Ingesting data & ITS ) $271,991 $1,989,414$2,261,405 SW Arterial (Construction)$3,557,143$14,228,571$17,785,714 SubTotal $0$4,083,388$21,429$14,228,571$0$2,518,202$20,851,589 Millwork Complete Streets (Construction)$254,254$21,429$528,788$804,470 Smarter City ITS ( Ingesting data & ITS ) $1,271,991 $871,885$2,143,876 SW Arterial (Construction)$1,898,320$1,643,280$5,950,000$6,770,305$16,261,905 SubTotal $0$3,424,565$21,429$1,643,280$5,950,000$8,170,978$19,210,251 2010 Quarter I 2010 Quarter II 2010 Quarter III 2010 Quarter IV City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 11 |Page Line Item Local Funds City& County State fundsFederal ApprDMATSTIGER FundsTotal Cost Millwork Complete Streets (Construction)$254,254$21,429 $528,788$804,470 Smarter City ITS (Data Mining ,Analysis & ITS systems)$271,991 $871,885$1,143,876 SW Arterial (Construction)$0 $9,928,571$9,928,571 Sub Total $0$526,245$21,429$0$0$11,329,244$11,876,917 Millwork Complete Streets (Construction)$254,254$21,429 $528,788$804,470 Smarter City ITS (Data Mining ,Analysis & ITS systems)$826,991 $871,885$1,698,876 SW Arterial (Construction)$14,303,571$14,303,571 SubTotal $0$1,081,245$21,429$0$0$15,704,244$16,806,917 Millwork Complete Streets (Construction)$254,254$21,429 $528,788$804,470 Smarter City ITS (Monitoring,Incentive Design & ITS systems)$401,216 $871,885$1,273,101 SW Arterial (Construction)$13,510,000$1,997,533$15,507,533 SubTotal $0$655,470$13,531,429$0$0$3,398,206$17,585,104 Millwork Complete Streets (Construction)$254,254$21,429 $528,788$804,470 Smarter City ITS (Incentive Design Implementation & $271,991 $871,885$1,143,876 SW Arterial (Construction)$4,250,000 $4,250,000 SubTotal $0$526,245$4,271,429$0$0$1,400,673$6,198,346 % of TIGER Previous Investments 15,626,560$ 11.40%Secured and Committed Local Funds $19,280,11814.06%Secured and Committed Sate Funds $17,910,00013.06%Secured and Committed Federal Appropriations $28,541,55520.82%Secured and Committed Dubuque Metropolitan Area Transportation (DMATS)$5,950,0004.34%Secured and Committed TIGER Funds $49,799,97936.32% Total Cost $137,108,212100.00% 2011 Quarter III 2011 Quarter IV 2011 Quarter I 2011 Quarter II PRIMARY SELECTION CRITERIA A. Long-Term Outcomes i. State of Good Repair - This project is part of, and consistent with, relevant state, local, and regional efforts to maintain transportation facilities and systems in a state of good repair.There is a sustainable source of revenue for long-term operations and maintenance for the project. The Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative will significantly improve the condition of the area’s existing transportation network. Currently, Dubuque’s main connector highways and local street systems are at capacity and forecast to be over capacity by 2012. Dubuque’s TIGER project will improve transportation efficiency, reduce traffic congestion and encourage transit use. The primary regional transportation plans relevant to this project include: Transportation 2031 Long- Range Transportation Plan (LRTP), Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), Transportation Planning Work Program (TPWP), Transportation Enhancements Program, Public Involvement Plan (PIP), Regional Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Architecture, and Tri-State Area Integrated Walking, Bicycling & Hiking Network Plan. Taken together, these documents provide a blueprint for the development of the region’s transportation system and direct the expenditure of federal funds for highways, transit, bikeways and other modes of transportation. The first critical component of the initiative is the construction of the SW Arterial, a vital missing link in the existing regional transportation network. The SW Arterial will connect and improve traffic flow between two regional highways, U.S. 61/151 and U.S. 20 (currently service level D and F facilities). Truck traffic will be diverted away from the heavily congested local street system, including Central Avenue, South Grandview Avenue and Kelly Lane. Based on the analysis of travel patterns from the DMATS transportation planning models, there are 3,600 regional trips per day (as of 2000) from the junction of U.S. 61 and U.S. 151 to the northwest part of Dubuque. These regional trips are forecast to increase to 6,700 per day in the year 2030. U.S. 20 carries City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 12 |Page 24,000 vehicles per day through Dubuque in stop-and-go type traffic movements. U.S. 20 is projected to carry 35,800 vehicles per day by 2020 and 41,000 vehicles per day by 2030. Current truck traffic creates significant maintenance costs on the regional highways and local streets and roadways. Reducing the truck traffic through local streets and on U.S. 20, U.S. 52/3 and U.S. 61/151 will minimize life cycle costs on the entire transportation network. Integration of the proposed state-of-the-art ITS improvements will ensure that the transportation system is utilized most efficiently. The development of decision support systems fed with real-time data will allow optimal management of the transportation network. Synchronized traffic signals, demand-based transit routes and information that enable motorists to alter their travel patterns will reduce road system friction, and thereby minimize the life cycle costs of existing transportation facilities in the region. Dubuque’s Complete Streets pilot will significantly improve the conditions and utility of streets in the historic Millwork District and in connecting neighborhoods and downtown by making them for accessible and user friendly for pedestrians, bicyclists, older people and families with children. Dubuque’s proposed improvements to its transit system will ensure that the system is utilized and maintained for area residents. Dubuque’s Complete Streets and transit components will also relieve congestion in the region. Dubuque expects to increase transit ridership from a typical daily 750 passengers currently to 5,060 weekday passengers by 2030. This increase will create a net annual reduction of more than 9 million vehicle miles traveled by 2030. Assuming 877 pedestrian and transit trips per day in the Complete Street pilot area by 2030, an additional 160,053 vehicle miles traveled can be reduced annually. Shifting vehicle trips to other modes of transportation, including transit and bicycle/pedestrian trails, will further reduce life costs of the existing transportation network. The Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative is also critical to future economic growth in the area. More than $1.6 billion in new economic development would be threatened without the development of the SW Arterial, implementation of the Complete Streets program, and better management of the transportation network. Approximately $575 million in housing development is anticipated by the year 2030 as the result of this project, or approximately $28,750,000 annually in estimated housing development. Additionally, the 2030 DMATS model estimates that more than 2,600 jobs will be created following project completion. ESTIMATES OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND JOB GROWTH Type Average Cost/Revenue Number of Expected Houses/Jobs between 2010-2020 Revenue Generated Annually by 2020 Number of Expected Houses/Jobs between 2020-2030 Revenue Generated Annually by 2030 Housing $139,095 2,806$390,300,570 1,692 $235,348,740 Retail employment $28,371 620 $17,590,020 362 $10,270,302 Non-retail employment $31,658 623 $19,722,934 223 $7,059,734 Service employment $19,469 489 $9,520,243 289 $5,626,483 Total revenue generated in 30 years $1,672,495,056 The project is appropriately capitalized up front and uses asset management approaches to optimize its long term cost structure. Asset management approaches have been a key component in completing the City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 13 |Page final design of the initiative. The project is being designed with a maximum effort toward sustainable design. The City of Dubuque maintains quantifiable metrics of the street, street lights, and sidewalk systems, traffic signals and related traffic management technology for both current conditions and performance.These include a five-year Capital Improvement Program budget and performance measures for maintenance of the street, street lights, and sidewalk systems, traffic signals and related traffic management technology,participation in the IOWA DOT’s pavement management system as well as a Street Condition Report maintained by the City’s Public Works and Engineering Departments. This Street Condition report is a database of annual visual inspections of public streets by City staff. The database logs by street, the street surface, its annual condition rating (0-100) over past 5 years, future maintenance needs, section repair, mill/overlay, resurface, reconstruct), maintenance history, and curb type (limestone, straight, curb and gutter) and condition rating (0-100). The City also uses the IOWA DOT’s Level of Service (LOS) ratings for identifying needed improvements in the street system. LOS ratings are based on traffic counts and delays, on a scale of A (best) through F (worst). Attachment 8 projects the level of service by 2030 for major roadway segments should this project not proceed due to gap in funding. The Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative will improve the street system’s condition, performance and long term cost structure. The City will use the existing metrics from the IOWA DOT’s pavement management system and the City’s Street Condition Ratings data base, and the expects analytical results for the Smarter City ITS, to develop enhanced metrics for the projected condition and performance of the street system in general, and the ITS, Complete Streets and SW Arterial in particular. The Smarter City ITS will provide real-time data correlated with weather, environment and economic data, and traffic data that can be used to improve the condition and performance of the system in general and specific components as needed. In addition, this data will be coupled with modeling and simulation of “What-If” scenarios to provide data driven and facts based- decision support for public works officials, transportation planners and traffic engineers to measure and manage short-term and long-term operational and maintenance costs. Maintenance of ITS, Complete Streets and SW Arterial - Long-term maintenance and operating costs will be assumed by the City of Dubuque and the transit authority. The City of Dubuque/IOWA DOT Highway Maintenance Agreement estimates the cost to maintain the SW Arterial at $1,050 per lane mile, or $30,240 annually for the 28.8 miles in total lane mile length. Dubuque will support SW Arterial maintenance through its annual road maintenance budget. Operating costs for the transit routes optimized by the ITS tools will be assumed by RTA. Evaluating Success – Dubuque will use the DMATS travel demand forecast model to measure and track “State of Good Repair” benefits. The model will calculate vehicle miles traveled and vehicle hours traveled and monitor the implications of the ITS improvements on life cycle costs. Dubuque will document the maintenance changes occurring over the years and quantify the impacts of this project on the metropolitan area. ii. Economic Competitiveness - This project will measurably contribute over the long-term to growth in employment, production, and other high value economic activities. The Greater Dubuque Laborshed had a population of 296,744 in 2008. Dubuque is the regional economic center for the Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin tri-state area. Three major industrial parks are located in the region, and many international companies have established a significant presence in Dubuque, including IBM, John Deere Dubuque Works, Nordstrom Distribution Center, Hormel Food Corporation, McGraw- City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 14 |Page Hill Publishing Company, A.Y. McDonald Manufacturing, Swiss Valley Farms, Kirchoff Distributing, Flexsteel Industries, and Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. The Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative is expected to create new employment opportunities in the information services, technology and manufacturing sectors. Transportation network improvements are critical to job retention and creation; statewide, national and global distribution of local commerce; and the continued growth and sustainability of the regional economy. The SW Arterial will provide a direct connection between the Dubuque Technology Park on U.S. 61/151 with the Dubuque Industrial Center and the existing Dubuque Industrial Center West near U.S. 20. In recent years, 16 companies have made expansion decisions at the Dubuque Industrial Center West based upon assurances that the proposed SW Arterial would soon be complete. The largest of these companies, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, decided to locate a 330,000 square foot distribution center in the Dubuque Industrial Center West based upon the City’s commitment to complete the SW Arterial. Hormel Foods also factored the SW Arterial into its decision-making when it announced in late 2008 that it would construct a 327,000 square foot production facility and employ 180 people at the Dubuque Industrial Center West. This project will improve long-term efficiency, reliability, and cost competitiveness in the movement of workers and goods. The SW Arterial is vital to other recent expansion announcements, including: Alliant Energy, Adams Company, Art’s Way Manufacturing, American Tank & Fabrication, Giese Manufacturing, Tri-State Industries, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Oral Arts Laboratories, Dubuque Screw Products, Theisen’s Supply, Medline Industries, Vanguard Countertops, ITC Holding Corporation, and the Regional Transit Authority. These companies have invested more than $50 million in new facilities in the Dubuque industrial parks and created over 1,000 new jobs. Retaining these companies and jobs is important to the economic future of the region. As the letter of support from Portzen Construction indicates, one company alone can save over $350,000 in employee travel time costs by the construction of the SW Arterial. The long-term economic benefits for the quality of the jobs supported, the number of jobs, and the expected employment in Economically Distressed Areas are described below. As a regional connector, the SW Arterial will also connect an economically distressed county to the south on U.S. 61, Jackson County, to the northern part of the region. Jackson County has two major international companies: Family Dollar, with a 907,000 square foot distribution center in Maquoketa, Iowa, and Waukesha, Wisconsin-based HUSCO International, which in the past year announced their intent to expand their operations in Maquoketa, Iowa. The reliability and the flow of the regional transportation network will have a positive economic impact on businesses in Jackson County and other distressed communities across the region. Optimization of the entire transportation network through the implementation of the Smarter City ITS will ensure that the movement of goods and people through the Dubuque region is more efficient and cost- effective, and makes better use of all existing transportation infrastructure The Complete Streets and transit improvement components will also expand economic opportunities and draw business expansion to downtown Dubuque. Using the performance calculator for job creation established for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Dubuque estimates that 1,366 jobs will be created as a result of the project. The DMATS transportation model conservatively estimates that 2,606 new permanent jobs and nearly 4,500 single family housing units developed will be created by 2030. More than 1,366 new jobs will be City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 15 |Page created during construction of this project. These jobs and the new housing opportunities will contribute to the long-term viability and growth of the region, improve hiring conditions, and increase productions, especially economically distressed areas such as Jackson County. Evaluating Success – The success of the economic competitiveness component of our project will be evaluated using several indicators. The City will monitor the number of building permits issued by the cities and counties in the region; the valuations for both commercial and residential properties in the region; increase in tax base in the region; and with the assistance of Iowa Workforce Development, the Greater Dubuque Development Corporation, and Prosperity Eastern Iowa, the City will track employment numbers for the region on a monthly basis over the period of the grant. Currently, Iowa Workforce Development and the GDDC track all of these indicators for the Dubuque metropolitan area and Prosperity Eastern Iowa tracks these numbers for the region. Building permits will be monitored on a quarterly basis. Valuations and taxes will be evaluated annually and employment numbers will be monitored monthly. For over 20 years, DMS has maintained a comprehensive database of downtown development statistics. They compile statistics on building rehabilitation expenditures, New construction expenditures, real estate sales, public infrastructure expenditures, and net new jobs created. Citizens and businesses in Dubuque have recognized the importance of a vibrant downtown and have chosen to relocate to and invest in it. Since 2000, property values have increased by 78 percent representing an increase of $365 million. Companies also have chosen to create 2,893 new jobs as well as the City investing nearly $40 million in new public infrastructure since 2000. iii. Livability - This project is designed and planned to have a positive impact on qualitative measures of community life. The project will integrate multiple transportation modes, augmenting the capacities of connecting modes and facilities. TheDubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative will improve the quality of life for area residents by reducing congestion, providing additional transportation choices, enhancing accessibility, and improving public health.The completion of the SW Arterial, the Complete Streets in the Historic Millwork District, and optimization of the entire transportation network with Smarter City ITS solution will create fuel energy savings, reduce vehicle emissions in the region, and improve the air quality for the citizens in the region. There will be fewer miles traveled in the region, less idle time for traffic waiting at local traffic signals, increased use of transit and other modes of transportation, therefore improving air quality and livability in the region. This project will develop jobs, attract new businesses, increase income and create more opportunities for the region, also increasing the livability for the citizens in the region. The project enhances livability, benefitting potential users in the affected communities Completion of the SW Arterial and optimization of the entire transportation network with Smarter City ITS solution will generate significant savings in travel time across the region. By 2030, DMATS transportation models indicate a 22.95 percent improvement in travel time for Dubuque motorists traveling across the region. The Smarter City ITS solution will also help the Regional Transit Authority develop bus routes that better meet the needs of users. The RTA provides transportation services to residents in Dubuque, Delaware, and Jackson Counties. More than 60 percent of the population that it serves are senior citizens, economically disadvantaged, or disabled. Using real-time data generated by the Smarter City ITS solution, Dubuque will be able to design a bus system that locates routes where users need them, and determine time schedules that will ensure maximum ridership. By 2030, Dubuque’s optimized transit City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 16 |Page system is expected to carry more than 5,000 riders and reduce VMT by approximately 10.7 million miles. Please refer to www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI for the analysis of VMT. The Complete Streets pilot project will also improve traveler mobility. An estimated 1,000 residents will live within the Historic Millwork District upon full build-out. It is estimated that 60% of the new residents within the Historic Millwork District will work downtown. A key component of the Millwork District revitalization plan is to redevelop the area street network using the Complete Streets model. The Complete Streets model will produce a more livable environment by making accessibility transport services easy to use for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, persons with disabilities, senior citizens, non- drivers, economically disadvantaged populations, and families. Redesigning streets for alternative modes of transportation will allow residents to take advantage of their proximity to work and choose walking, biking or mass transit as options. By 2030, DMATS transportation modeling suggests that 877 people in the Historic Millwork District will choose options besides driving to employment and recreation locations, thereby reducing VMT by 160,053 miles annually. The Complete Streets redesign of the Historic Millwork District will also create a more vibrant downtown, encouraging more businesses to locate in the area, and making goods, commodities and services more readily available. This project will bring more jobs, increase incomes, create additional economic opportunities, and therefore increase the livability for the citizens in the region. Reducing congestion and VMT on the regional highways and downtown streets will also produce important public health benefits for Dubuque citizens. DMATS transportation models indicate that completion of the SW Arterial and optimization of the entire transportation network with Smarter City ITS solution, as well as improved transit use and VMT reductions in the Complete Streets pilot area, will reduce air pollution, thereby improving the quality of life for residents with respiratory problems. In addition, by creating a model for more walkable and bicycle friendly neighborhoods, the Complete Streets pilot project will improve public health by creating new opportunities for increased exercise for area residents. Please refer to Air Pollutants chart on page 18 or for additional analysis on Public Health Benefits please go to www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI. This project contributes significantly to the mobility of travelers between residential and commercial areas in the region and connects modes of transportation. The SW Arterial connects two significant industrial parks and a technology park in Dubuque, providing for improved travel across the area. The project encourages intermodal connectivity between private and public transportation and enhances travel time based on traveler demand. The Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative has enjoyed broad public support as part of the DMATS continuous, comprehensive and coordinated transportation planning process. Throughout the entire planning and environmental assessment process, the project has involved a series of public input meetings and discussions with property owners and the general public. Over 15 public informational and input meetings have been held to date for the SW Arterial phase of the project. Evaluating success – Congestion and air quality will be evaluated through Smarter City ITS component by using the data created annually and analyzing the data using algorithms developed through the process. The congestion will also be monitored by random traffic counts done on the road system and compare with the capacity of the road system. The DMATS Travel Demand Forecast Model will also be used in the analysis of the data. The Transit systems counts its daily transit ridership and reports this information to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The data submitted to the FTA will be used to monitor transit ridership in the study area. City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 17 |Page iv. Sustainability The Dubuque Area Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative will provide a model for how communities with populations under 200,000 can create transportation systems that reduce petroleum consumption, decrease greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants, reduce stormwater run-off from local streets, and manage growth and development in a way that discourages sprawling development. Each of the project’s components will contribute significantly to sustainability in the region. Overall the DRSTI will maintain, protect and enhance the environment by avoiding adverse impacts and providing environmental benefits. Construction of the SW Arterial and implementation of the community-wide Smarter City ITS will improve traffic flow, thereby reducing travel and idle time. The City estimates that travel time will be reduced by 19 percent by 2020 and by 23 percent by 2030. This, in turn, will reduce the amount of oil consumed and decrease the associated emissions of carbon and other air pollutants. Implementation of the Smarter City ITS public transit improvements will significantly increase transit ridership over the next 30 years. As a result, this initiative will reduce VMT, thereby saving energy and reducing carbon and other air emissions. Implementation of the Complete Streets pilot project will also reduce vehicle miles traveled, save energy, and reduce air emissions. As the table on energy savings below shows, the project will save 1.4 million gallons of gasoline a year and 42 million gallons over 30 years. It will save $3.6 million in gasoline costs a year and $107 million over 30 years. As the table on carbon emissions below indicates, the project will reduce 12,500 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions a year and 373,000 metric tons over 30 years. This will provide an economic benefit of about $411,000 a year and $12 million over 30 years. The project will also reduce conventional pollutants. As the table on conventional air emission reductions below shows, each year the project will reduce volatile organic compounds by 40,000 kilograms, carbon monoxide by 309,000 kilograms, and nitrogen oxides by 43,000 kilograms. Energy Savings (by 2040) Project Component Average Gasoline Saved Annually (gallons) Average Gasoline Saved Over 30 years (gallons) Average Cost Savings Annually ($2.54/gallon) Average Cost Savings Over 30 years ($2.54/gallon) Transportation Network with Smarter City ITS Traffic Improvements 868,828 26,064,827 $2,206,822 $66,204,660 Smarter City ITS Transit Improvements 513,877 15,416,303 $1,305,247 $39,157,411 Complete Streets Pilot 17,915 537,465 $45,505 $1,365,160 TOTAL 1,400,620 42,018,595 $3,557,574 $106,727,231 See www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI for complete analysis Reduction in Carbon Emissions (by 2040) Project Component Average CO2 Reductions Annually (metric Average CO2 Reductions Over 30 Years Average Cost Savings Annually Average Cost Savings Over 30 Years City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 18 |Page tons)(metric tons) ($33/metric ton) ($33/metric ton) Transportation Network with Smarter City ITS Traffic Improvements 7,762 232,857 $256,142 $7,684,272 Smarter City ITS Transit Improvements 4,591 137,725 $151,498 $4,544,940 Complete Streets Pilot 90 2,704 $2,975 $89,239 TOTAL 12,443 373,286 $410,615 $12,318,451 See www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI for complete analysis Reduction in Conventional Air Pollutants (by 2040) Project Component Average VOC Reduced Annually (kg) Average VOC Reduced Over 30 Years (kg) Average CO Reduced Annually (kg) Average CO Reduced Over 30 Years (kg) Average NOx Reduced Annually (kg) Average NOx Reduced Over 30 Years (kg) Transportation Network with Smarter City ITS Traffic Improvements 23,567 707,017 179,979 5,339,378 24,752 742,575 Smarter City ITS Transit Improvements 16,654 499,624 127,185 3,815,549 17,492 524,751 Complete Streets Pilot 274 8,220 2,090 62,700 287 8,610 TOTAL 40,495 1,214,861 309,254 9,217,627 42,531 1,275,936 See www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI for complete analysis Reduction in Vehicle Miles Traveled (by 2040) Project Component Average VMT Reductions Annually (miles) Average VMT Reductions Over 30 Years (miles) Smarter City ITS Transit Improvements 9,739,259 292,177,755 Complete Streets Pilot 160,053 4,801,590 TOTAL 9,899,312 296,979,345 See www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI for complete analysis Evaluating success – DMATS staff updates the Travel Demand Forecast model annually with economic development and socio-economic data changes in the region. This data will be used in calculating the VMT on the system and evaluate the changes. Staff will use the calculated VMT and algorithms designed through Smart City ITS to calculation green house gases, energy and air pollutant emissions in the region. v. Safety The Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative will dramatically improve traffic safety in the region. Construction of the Southwest Arterial and implementation of the ITS system will reduce congestion on city streets and improve the overall management of traffic in the area, resulting in fuel and travel time savings Implementation of the Smart City ITS public transit improvements will reduce congestion by increasing ridership and reducing the number of cars on the road – especially during commuting hours and other times where there is high traffic. Implementation of the Complete Streets pilot project in the Historic Millwork District will also reduce congestion by encouraging more people to use alternative modes of transportation, including walking, bicycling, and public transit. In addition, the Complete Streets pilot will create streets that are safer and healthier for pedestrians and bicyclists. City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 19 |Page According to the Benefit Cost analysis prepared for this initiative using the Iowa DOT Office of Traffic and Safety Benefit/Cost Safety Analysis spreadsheet, accidents will be reduced by 35% over the 30 year life of the project. Based on data from this spreadsheet, $118,518,988 is the present value of avoided crash benefits from the SW Arterial based on statistics from 2001 to 2006. Improvements Estimated Improvements Annual Maintenance Estimated Life of the Project Crash Reduction Present Value with All Costs $49,800,000 $130,240 30 years 35% $49,232,760,481 Traffic Volume Data Length in Miles Daily traffic Volume Projected Traffic Growth (annually) Total Projected Vehicle Miles Over 30 Years 37 65,000 4% 49,232,760,481 Crash Data 2001 - 2007 Loss in One Year Savings in 30 Years Fatal Injury Property Damage 9 783 1822 $70,429,400 $118,510,988 Benefit/Cost Ratio Benefit : Cost = $118,510,988 : $52,052,114 = 2.28 : 1 See www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI for complete analysis Evaluating Success – The Dubuque Police Department and Dubuque County Sherriff departments monitor crashes and report them to Iowa Traffic Safety Bureau. Staff will use this data to monitor reduction in crashes and fatalities in the region. Staff will do random traffic counts on the network to monitor changes in traffic volumes. The Iowa Department of Transportation also does traffic counts in the region and tracks crashes. Their data will also be used to track safety in the region. Analysis of the Expected Project Benefits in the five long-term outcomes can be found by going to www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI . B. Job Creation and Economic Stimulus TheDubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative is all planned and ready-to-go and will quickly create and preserve jobs. Within the first year of the project, Dubuque will create 795 construction jobs. A total of 1,366 construction jobs will be created over the length of the two year project. In addition, the project is expected to create employment opportunities in the information services, technology and manufacturing sectors. The DMATS transportation model estimates that more than 2,600 jobs will be created following project completion. Dubuque will work closely with ECIA and Iowa Workforce Development to place workers into construction jobs as well as provide short-term training needed for those positions. The Region l Employment and Training Programs administer the Adult and Dislocated Worker Program, Youth Program, and the Promise Job Program. The Youth and Promise Job Programs are based on household income and provide training and job seeking assistance to disadvantaged people in the region. The Region 1 Employment and Training Program will be very involved in offering their services to connect disadvantaged workers with economic opportunities created by this project. Through the regional one- City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 20 |Page stop center partnerships have been established with Veterans Employment, Disability Navigator, Vocational Rehabilitation, and the ARRP Senior Employment. (Refer to Attachment 2 for the letter of support). Also, Dubuque will provide opportunities for small businesses and disadvantaged business enterprises to participate in this project. The Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative will link with existing efforts with community-based organizations to create economic opportunities in the region. Dubuque currently works with a local grassroots community-based effort known as Project HOPE, which is staffed by the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque. Project HOPE’s mission is to connect disadvantaged populations to services, programming and economic opportunities. The City is also involved with DubuqueWorks, another community-based workforce group that focuses on recruiting and retaining a qualified workforce in the region, including economically distressed areas like Jackson County The Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative will implement best practices consistent with civil rights and equal opportunity laws and will ensure all individuals regardless of race, gender, age, disability, national origin benefit from the project. The City of Dubuque and its project partners have a sound track record on labor practices and compliance with Federal Labor laws. Dubuque is a partner in the Prosperity Eastern Iowa Buyer Supplier Connection program where buying and selling locally and regionally to grow our regional economy is encouraged. The City will encourage the use of local and regional companies for this project through its procurements efforts and will encourage those companies to utilize local suppliers and subcontractors, creating follow-up jobs and economic stimulus for manufacturers, suppliers and the construction industry. i. Project Schedule JanFebMarAprilMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprilMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Community Engagement SW Arterial - Design/Property Acquisition/Mitigation Final Engineering Design Phase III Mitigation Iowa DOT Property Acquisition Right-of-Way Property Acquisition SW Arterial - Construction Grade Only, 4-Lane, Hyw 20 to 61/151 Bridges / Structures Paving, 2-Lanes, Hyw 20 to 61/151 Smarter City ITS Volunteer identification Realtime data gathering Ingesting data Data Mining & Analysis Monitoring and Incentive Design Incentive Design Implementation & Report Millwork Complete Streets Design Construction Environmental Approvals Job Creation Total Job Creation1366 15620422720912918319167 2011 - Quarter 32011 - Quarter 42010 - Quarter 12010 - Quarter 22010 - Quarter 32010 - Quarter 42011 - Quarter 12011 - Quarter 2 City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 21 |Page ii. Environmental Approvals The IOWA DOT has completed a Supplemental Environmental Assessment and Project Location Study for the SW Arterial. The City of Dubuque has an approved Final Section 4 (f) Statement dated August, 2004 for the SW Arterial. In February 2005, the City of Dubuque received issuance of Environmental Concurrence and the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) from the regulatory agencies which complete the Environmental Assessment and NEPA compliance phases of the project. Environmental studies related to this project can be found at www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI . The City of Dubuque has engaged an architectural historian to conduct the required Section 106 reviews of potential impacts to cultural resources in the Historic Millwork District with implementation of the Complete Streets pilot project. The Smarter City ITS and Transit component are categorically excluded from Environmental Review. iii. Legislative Approvals The Smart Sustainable Transportation project is widely supported by state and local officials, including the Governor of Iowa. (See Attachment 2 for letters of support). iv. State and Local Planning 6)The Dubuque City Council adopted the Historic Millwork District Master Plan in February 2009, and implementation is underway. The City has completed a district energy system study, and designing the streets, infrastructure, utilities, and streetscapes improvements that will form the framework for the Complete Streets pilot project. The SW Arterial project is nn the DMATS Transportation Improvement Program and also in the Long Range Transportation Plan. The project is also part of the State of Iowa DOT Five Year Plan. Documents can be found at www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI . Attachment 4 identifies action taken since 2004 on components of the Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative. A letter from DMATS certifying it is part of the planning documents can be found in Attachment 5. v. Technical Feasibility The preliminary engineering work for the SW Arterial was completed in March, 2008. Final engineering began in February, 2009 and will be completed by February, 2010. Right-of-way acquisition for the project began in the last several months and will be completed by the spring of 2010. The Iowa DOT has signed an agreement with the City of Dubuque to assist in the right-of-way acquisition of the project to save on project costs and to expedite the process. Copies of the preliminary engineering report and maps of the project can be found at www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI. Preliminary engineering work is underway for the Historic Millwork District, in preparation for the Complete Streets pilot project. vi. Financial Feasibility Provide evidence of the viability and completeness of the project’s financing package including evidence of stable and reliable financial commitments and contingency reserves, as appropriate, and evidence of the grant recipients’ ability to manage the grant. A comprehensive budget was detailed in section entitled Grant Funds and Sources and Uses of Project Funds, including Local, State and Federal Funding. In the Annual Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the City of Dubuque, the auditors note that the city has complied with federal grant management requirements. A link to the 2008 CAFR can be found at www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI . City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 22 |Page The following is a summary of the secured and committed sources of funds: Local Sources of funding: DMATS STP funding and enhancement funding, City of Dubuque Capital Improvement Funds, City and County TIME-21 funds and City I-Jobs funding. State Sources of funding: 5-year Highway Transportation Improvement Program funding. Federal Sources of funding: SAFETEA-LU, SAFETEA-LU Technical Corrections Bill, FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations and AARA funding. II. Secondary Selection Criteria A. Innovation IBM and the City of Dubuque will create a radically innovative approach to transportation and transit planning and operations for cities up to 200,000 in population. This Smarter City Intelligent Transport Solution (Smarter City ITS) will provide transportation and transit planners comprehensive real-time data-driven capability for design and implementation of policies and strategies for traffic, transit and urban planning. It also provides individual travelers the information about their carbon footprint due to their VMT and mode of transportation and the decision support based on the available choices and their metrics of interest to help them make informed judgments that ultimately help improve the overall efficiency of the region’s transportation systems and reduce the city’s carbon footprint. This will be accomplished by focusing on the transit and transportation patterns of individuals rather than limiting the ITS systems to the use of existing traffic sensors such as traffic cameras, and loop counters. By focusing on the individual and creating an instrumentation infrastructure that leverages cell-phone device data for location gathering, this ensures a scalable system with extremely rich data gathering potential. At the heart of the individual instrumentation infrastructure in the Smarter City ITS are the ubiquitous mobile phones and GPS devices. By using these devices, we are able to acquire real-time location information for 10,000 users of the transportation systems including those who use public transit and those who do not. Additionally since the devices almost always accompany the users, we are able to track behavior across modes of transportation that is otherwise impossible without tedious, static and expensive manual surveys. We are able to thus monitor the “pulse” of the city through the data gathering infrastructure that leverages the mobile devices as the instrumentation or sensors. With total commitment to privacy through collecting data anonymously and a large number of volunteering individuals in this project, we will be able to collect extremely rich data of people movement across multiple modes of transportation. Current estimates of the cost of collecting equivalent data manually over the same time period put the cost in the tens of millions of dollars. This information will then be used by sophisticated data analysis and mining algorithms that have the ability to handle massive data feeds in near real-time. This will also enable the development of sophisticated behavior models in a much richer format that account for factors such as choice of transportation modes, multimodality, weather and traffic information, and metrics and incentives of interest to the individuals such as time, cost, carbon footprint and health and wellness indicators. By combining all this information through real time information sensing and integration and sophisticated data analytics, this project will create a decision support mechanism for individuals as well as the city management team. This decision support will allow for “What-If” scenario evaluation. The resulting insights will have tremendous impact on the design, planning, operations and use of all transportation activities in the region. City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 23 |Page The benefits of this innovation to city management nationwide are tremendous. The Smarter City ITS will allow managers to plan, design, implement and operate optimally based on: 1.Extremely rich data models to understand transit, origin and destination, true demand, bottlenecks, and hotspots; 2.Accurate baseline generation and measurement of the carbon footprint of the city’s transportation systems; 3.Real-time data and insights based on facts to make informed policy decisions and operate the systems with significantly greater efficiency and enhanced safety; and the 4.Ability to address the unique situation in the Midwest where the travel patterns of citizens vary a great deal due to the seasonal weather Benefits to this Smarter City ITS to Dubuque Traffic Managers This will provide the continuous collection of traffic volume data, intersection reports, failure/malfunction notifications, video monitoring, overall control for signal retiming and ability to redirect traffic thus enabling optimal signaling, improved progression, reduced carbon emissions and optimal special event traffic management. The detailed city plan for traffic improvements can be found at www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI. To summarize the Smarter City ITS will: 1.Optimally implement the city’s existing ITS plan in nine priority transportation corridors including those on US 20, US 61, US 151, US 52, IA 32 and the proposed Southwest Arterial; 2.Monitor traffic and adjust signals and the interconnect system between signals and remote locations; and 3.Help disseminate information on new signals and dynamic message boards to notify motorist of construction detours and delays with all major road projects and bridge crossings. Benefits to this Smarter City ITS to Dubuque Region Transit Managers 1.Decision support to plan and design new services or changes to existing services and then measure the impact of the changes to ensure net gains 2.Information will be used to completely overhaul the public transit system in the region to change frequencies, schedules, routes based on demand as well as adding new services such as demand response shuttles for the Dubuque downtown 3.Information will be used to design optimal services targeting the 18,000 students in the region that are not served by the current transit system 4.Incentive design for individuals based on rich behavioral models that reduce dependence on cars and encourage the use of more sustainable transportation alternatives 5.Continuous monitoring of the impact of new services and changes based on facts supported by data Benefits of insights from this Smarter City ITS to Dubuque Urban Planners 1.Optimal design of the Complete Streets initiative in the City of Dubuque, which aims at returning the downtown and other areas of the city to its residents with trails for bicycles and pedestrians. 2.Decisions about encouraging different kinds of businesses to be located in strategic sites to increase pedestrian traffic, business and the livability in the city. 3.Ability to develop land use and transportation planning based on accurate data, which discourages sprawl and promotes long term sustainable economic development. Benefits of this Smarter City ITS to Individuals travelling in the Dubuque region 1.Accurate estimates of real-time carbon footprints based on their modes of transportation and VMT. 2.Real-time information of choices of transportation and transit 3.Decision support for choosing the optimal transportation routes and transit modes based on estimates of impact of these choices on individual metrics of interest such as journey time, journey cost, and City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 24 |Page carbon footprint, factors such as weather, health and wellness and incentives offered by the transportation and transit authorities. The pervasive nature of the proposed sensing and instrumentation infrastructure and the scalable nature of the data analytics, mining and decision support systems will allow this model to be replicated in other cities with population up to 200,000 in size. Dubuque and its partners are committed to sharing the lessons learned through the use of the Smarter City ITS with communities throughout the country. B. Partnership i. Jurisdictional and Stakeholder Collaboration The City of Dubuque believes that partnerships are an integral part of success. Partnerships have been instrumental in the success Dubuque has experienced in the past 15 years, Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative is another example of a successful partnership. Strong partnerships between the public, non-profit, and private sectors are the cornerstone for implementation of the Initiative. The project provides the framework for a comprehensive network of new and existing partnerships and resources for creating a model for transportation sustainability. There are several partners that are helping make the project possible, including: City of Dubuque, ECIA, Dubuque County, DMATS, Iowa DOT, Dubuque Chamber of Commerce, GDDC, RTA, and IBM. The Iowa DOT has been a strong supporter of the completing the vital connector piece for the region, the Southwest Arterial, and in February 2009, a joint partnership agreement was executed between the City of Dubuque and the Iowa DOT’s office of Right- of-Way to perform property acquisition services, saving the project thousands of dollars in consultant fees. Right-of-way acquisition has begun and will be completed in the next several months. The Iowa DOT has also committed $17.5 million to the Southwest Arterial project by funding the construction of the interchange at the west end of the project at U.S. 20 and Seippel Road. Dubuque County and the DMATS are fully committed stakeholders in the Southwest Arterial project. The County has committed $398,000 to the project. DMATS has committed $6.7 million. Congressman Braley, Senator Harkin, and Senator Grassley have also played an integral role in this project and have secured $38 million in federally directed funding for this project throughout the past 15 years. (Refer to Attachment 6 for funding secured). All available Local, State and Federal funds have been explored, TIGER funds are critical for the project to proceed. ii. Disciplinary Integration The DRSTI is supported financially and otherwise, by non-transportation public agencies and public housing agencies, as evidenced by the enclosed letters of support, as well as the City of Dubuque and Dubuque County. The City of Dubuque is a leader in Iowa and the nation in the sustainability movement. No-Build Alternative The No-Build Alternative would continue the roadway system as it currently exists, with no physical changes to develop a more efficient system connection between U.S. 61/151 and U.S. 20. The No-Build Alternative would not provide the improvements needed by the regional highway system. This would cause a less efficient and less safe roadway system. More specifically, the No-Build Alternative would not provide improvements to accommodate existing and future traffic volumes, leading to further traffic congestion, higher crash rates, and increased travel costs to the public. Therefore, the No-Build Alternative is not a feasible and prudent alternative. FEDERAL WAGE RATE REQUIREMENT See Attachment 7 for the signed certification stating that Dubuque will comply with the requirements of subchapter IV, of Chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code (Federal wage rate requirements). City of Dubuque, Iowa – TIGER PROPOSAL 25 |Page NATIONAL ENVIRONMETAL POLICY ACT REQUIREMENT The Dubuque Regional Sustainable Transportation Initiative has an approved Final Section 4(f) Statement dated August 2004 for the SW Arterial. Numerous historic/architectural and archaeological studies have been completed for the project since 1996. The studies identified sites for which Section 4(f) is applicable, and the potential for impacts on those sites has been evaluated. It is not possible to find a feasible and prudent alternative that would avoid all impacts on properties protected by Section 4(f) in the area of the project. Additional studies have been completed that have provided more intensive investigations and focused on the historic/architectural and archaeological properties in the southern portion of the study area of the project. In February 2005, the City of Dubuque received issuance of Environmental Concurrence and the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) from the regulatory agencies which complete the Environmental Assessment and NEPA compliance phases of the project. Environmental studies and NEPA compliance can be found at www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI. ENVIRONMENTALLY RELATED FEDERAL, STATE & LOCAL ACTIONS Extensive coordination with all interested parties has occurred during the preparation of the Final Section 4(f) Statement. Iowa’s State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) received copies of the Phase I and Phase II reports for the entire area studied. The final Section 4(f) Statement was forwarded to the U.S. Department of Interior and other resource and regulatory agencies involved in review of the document. A Finding of No Significant Impact has been received for the project. The project is in compliance with all federal, state and local regulations. Reference materials and permits from federal, state and local agencies can be found at www.cityofdubuque.org/DRSTI .