SMART Curbs: City of San Jose’s Curb Digitization and Management Pilot

Details

• Creators:
  Abroff, Sarah ; Hood, Lisa ; Khoury, Elias ; Tam, Wilson ; Goren, Rachel ; Neubauer, Rick
• Corporate Creators:
  San Jose Department of Transportation ; Umojo Inc. ; PlaceWorks
• Corporate Contributors:
  Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Program
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Buses Bus Transit Data Passenger Information Systems Public Transit Real Time Information Sensors Structured Data
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-SMART-FY22-01
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; California ; San Jose (California)
• Edition:
  Implementation Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Program
• Abstract:
  San José has ambitious transportation goals and has pledged to achieve at least half of trips made by transit, biking, micro-mobility, or on foot by 2040. San José’s Downtown Transportation Plan (2022) identifies curb management and demand-based parking pricing as strategies needed to reach these goals. Today, parking-dominated curbs in Downtown San José face growing demand for reliable bus service, safe bikeways, efficient on-demand passenger loading and goods deliveries, and enjoyable public places like parklets, outdoor dining, and green infrastructure. Without adequate spaces for all these uses, delivery workers often double park and obstruct traffic, transit riders are delayed, pedestrians and bicyclists are put in danger by blocked bike lanes, people with disabilities are dropped off far away from their destinations, and business activities are stymied. The result: inefficiency across all modes of transportation. At full-scale implementation, San José’s limited curb space will be more flexible, more efficient, and more responsive to its diverse users. Proactively managing the curb is essential to creating safer, more reliable, more resilient, more vital, and more integrated public spaces for all San José residents. The Stage 1 pilot project used technology to develop a strategic approach to managing Downtown’s limited curb spaces to meet the competing and growing demands for various curb uses. The project included two components. First, the pilot project collected curb inventory data for all streets in Downtown San José using LiDAR scanning. Second, the pilot project collected curb utilization data from approximately 50 street blocks in Downtown San José using a combination of sensor- and camera-based infrastructure. The curb inventory and utilization data are standardized and incorporated in a curb data management platform. These two components will help San José DOT implement curb management strategies, monitor curb uses, and provide real-time broadcasting of curb use information to the public.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  SMARTFY22N1P1G07
• Collection(s):
  SMART Program
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:acb333d6353dbbe9529432dc0aeb67eddcbfbc7a66a4e9e17be9c662ecb0966c55377b06acbad13c85fa4f4f413d4e481dabd4dedf4332b7ab917f08075ef0ee
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/86342/dot_86342_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.16 MB ]