The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) would like Escambia County to purchase approximately 38 replacement traffic signal controllers for the State Highway system for the five jurisdictions in our two county region (Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, City of Pensacola, City of Milton, and City of Gulf Breeze). Each of these jurisdictions has contracted with the FDOT to operate and maintain the State Highway System Traffic Signals within their respective areas.
This effort is part of the Traffic Controller Obsolescence Replacement Plan for the Escambia/Santa Rosa Region. The existing Peek 3000E controllers are no longer being maintained and certified by the manufacturer. A total of 305 Peek 3000E controllers are on state roads within the Escambia/Santa Rosa Area.
The recommendation is for the existing Peek 3000E controllers maintained by the agencies under the current Traffic Signal Maintenance and Compensation Agreement to be removed and replaced with these new replacement controllers at as many locations selected by the maintaining agencies that the budget for replacement controllers will allow. The obsolete Peek 3000E controllers collected should be placed in the maintaining agencies spare controller cache to be used as an exchange for other failed obsolete traffic signal controllers until the Escambia-Santa Rosa Regional Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) is implemented.
The 38 new replacement controllers at an estimated cost of $3,700.00 each, will be distributed as follows based on the percentage breakdown of the total existing Peek 3000E controllers currently in use:
18 Each Escambia County
10 Each City of Pensacola
6 Each Santa Rosa County
3 Each City of Milton
1 Each City of Gulf Breeze
Remaining available funds up to and not to exceed the budgetary ceiling shall be used to purchase additional controllers or ancillary devices to support/establish traffic signal connectivity to the ATMS Phase 1. All other parts, cabling, hardware, installation and integration will be the responsibility of the maintaining agencies through the current Traffic Signal Maintenance and Compensation Agreement that each agency has with the State.
Having met multiple times with each of these jurisdictions through our regional ITS Working Group, all are willing to allow Escambia County to continue as a lead agency for our region and manage this JPA with the State.
FDOT will reimburse the County for direct costs of purchasing traffic signal controllers in an amount up to but not to exceed $140,000. |