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.
Modeling the transportation system allows us to evaluate different scenarios such as expanding roadways, road diets and Mobility on Demand strategies to see which offer the best return on investment.
To this end, Pima County has partnered with the University of Arizona College of Engineering to build a Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) model for the region so we can simulate different scenarios and compare costs among alternatives.
DynusT DTA model report
View a high-level 24-hour traffic simulation example