U.S.DepartmentofTransportationProjectDocuments
May 1st, 2024
The $40 million grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation will empower and enable us to re-imagine mobility in Columbus. It supports nine projects that seek to demonstrate how an intelligent transportation system and equitable access to transportation can have positive impacts on every day challenges faced by cities. Documents supporting the projects detailed below are available below.
Updated as of June 30, 2019. For additional project updates, please visit our Project Pages
Program-wide Documentation
The Program Management Office is responsible for developing documentation to assist in the overall management of the Smart Columbus program.
Documents available:
Systems Engineering Management Plan
Connected Electric Autonomous Vehicle (CEAV) project
The Smart Columbus project team, which includes the Ohio Department of Transportation DriveOhio, the Columbus Partnership, the City of Columbus, and the Ohio State University, is deploying and evaluating the use of connected electric automated vehicles. The first pilot project in the series, known as the Smart Circuit. Th deployment location is the Scioto Mile in Downtown Columbus, Ohio, an area that includes COSI (Center of Science and Industry, a science museum and research center), Bicentennial Park, National Veterans Memorial and Museum, the Smart Columbus Experience Center, and other attractions.
Documents available:
Connected Electric Autonomous Vehicle OpCon
Connected Vehicle Environment project
The connected vehicle environment initiative seeks to address certain corridors and intersections in Columbus with high crash numbers involving vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians. The connected vehicle environment corridors were selected based on regional crash data, enhanced transit services, recent infrastructure investments and relationship to other projects.
Documents available:
Connected Vehicle Environment ConOps
Connected Vehicle Environment ICD
Connected Vehicle Environment SyRS
Event Parking Management project
The Event Parking Management project aims to make it easier for people to eat, shop, and play in the Short North and Downtown that allow drivers to find and pay for parking at surface lots and garages through a one-stop shop mobile and web-based application.
Documents available:
Event Parking Management ConOps
Mobility Assistance for People with Cognitive Disabilities (MAPCD) project
The Mobility Assistance project aims to improve mobility and independence for people with cognitive disabilities through a highly customizable, easy to understand personal navigation app set up by their caregiver that will allow the individuals to reduce their dependence on paratransit transportation services.
Documents available:
MAPCD Trade Study
Multi-Modal Trip Planning Application (MMTPA)
The Multi-Modal Trip Planning Application and Common Payment System seeks to reduce traffic congestion by making it easier for people to find and pay for the best way to get to their destination using more than one mode of transportation such as the bus, bike-share, scooter-share, ride-share, etc through a one-stop shop app accessible via smart phone or smart mobility hub kiosk.
Documents available:
MMTPA/ Common Payment System ConOps
Common Payment System SyRS
Prenatal Trip Assistance project
The Prenatal Trip Assistance project seeks to study if providing different transportation services to expectant women impacts the woman’s transportation experience, health outcomes, and, ultimately, infant mortality rates. Our goal is to determine how to best provide transportation services for moms so that lack of reliable transportation is no longer a barrier to receiving early and adequate prenatal care.
Documents available:
Prenatal Trip Assistance ConOps
Smart Mobility Hubs
Smart Mobility Hubs will help people find transportation options that fill the gap between the bus stop and their home, work, or other destination by bringing together different mobility options in six locations along Cleveland Ave. and Morse Rd. anchored by a real-time information kiosk that provides WiFi, USB charging, and access to the Multi-Modal Trip Planning application.
Documents available:
Smart Mobility Hubs ICD
Smart Columbus Operating System project
The Smart Columbus Operating System is the nexus where our city becomes “smart.” By sending, receiving, and visualizing open, secure data, the operating system will give public sector officials and private sector innovators the insight they need to use data to empower our residents through improved mobility and establishing a platform for solving complex urban challenges in cities.
Documents available:
Smart Columbus Operating System Data Privacy Plan
Smart Columbus Operating System Data Management Plan
Smart Columbus Operating System Project Roadmap (Updated April 2019)
Playbook Resources
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