JTA automated vehicle project could start Bay Street construction this year

Jacksonville Transportation Authority officials gave an update on the $400 million U2C project May 31 at its National Automated Vehicle Day event.

  • By Mike Mendenhall
  • | 9:02 p.m. May 31, 2023
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A GEM electric autonomous vehicle parked May 31 outside of JTA's Armsdale Test & Learn facility in Northwest Jacksonville. The vehicle was on display at JTA's National Automated Vehicle Day event.
A GEM electric autonomous vehicle parked May 31 outside of JTA's Armsdale Test & Learn facility in Northwest Jacksonville. The vehicle was on display at JTA's National Automated Vehicle Day event.
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The Jacksonville Transportation Authority has a 2025 deadline to put its autonomous vehicle program the Ultimate Urban Circulator, or U2C, into service along Bay Street Downtown. 

JTA Vice President of Automation and Innovation Bernard Schmidt said May 31 that’s when the U.S. Department of Transportation will require all federal funding for U2C’s first phase Bay Street Innovation Corridor to be spent and rider service to start. 

Schmidt said construction on phase one will begin this year.

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