Imagine an app on your smartphone that will pay you $ incentives to:
- Reduce your travel time
- Increase your travel safety
- Reduce your fuel consumption
- Decrease your travel costs
- Improve air quality
Sounds too good to be true? Welcome to the world of Mobility on Demand (MOD)! MOD allows local jurisdictions to invest in traveler mobility benefits at a fraction of the cost of expanding roadway capacity.
USDOT MOD fact sheet
Pima County/City of Tucson MOD fact sheet
See how Pima County intends to connect MOD apps to infrastructure under our Connected Vehicles tab.
The
Connected Vehicle Program led by the USDOT is working with transportation agencies, vehicle and device manufacturers to test and evaluate technologies that will enable cars, buses, trucks, trains and infrastructure to “talk” to one another so as to optimize both mobility and safety.
Learn more about what Pima County Government is doing regarding
data network readiness for connected vehicles and other smart transportation systems.
Transportation system modeling is another tool for measuring roadway performance and for evaluating different scenarios such as expanding and creating new roadways, or reducing roadway capacity (road diet) to provide better bicycle and pedestrian facilities. Pima County has partnered with the University of Arizona College of Engineering to build a Dynamic Traffic Assignment model for the region. This model will be used to help measure roadway system performance and assist the department in evaluating the best strategies to achieve performance goals.
DynusT DTA model report