Chattanooga SMART CITY PLAN CLIMATE PLAN

Ok I have a long lost relative on the McGee side it Chatt. At his request I thought I’d look into the direction of this city.

1. not a C40 city; ok

2. did not find it on the Global Covenant of Mayors; ok

None the less it is a Smart city. Initially and at first blush everything on the smart city looks civic minded and very responsible type engagement with the delivery of services and accessing of data sets to be helpful to it’s citizens. Very likeable city site. Very likeable discussions around the smart city and the delivery of transit in a forward looking way to serve citizens.

https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/TN%20Chattanooga.pdf

“Characteristics of a Smart City The City of Chattanooga is an ideal candidate to be a Smart City because of its public transportation system with CARTA, its collaborative environment that has implemented transformational projects, a history of commitment to community improvement through federal programs and local partnerships, integration with the sharing economy, and a strong public commitment to data sharing and innovation.”

“. ChattaData is the performance management tool that tracks, monitors, and makes public our efforts, holding us accountable and helping us achieve our goals. Details about ChattaData can be found at: http://data.chattlibrary.org and https://performance.chattanooga.gov/ Chattanooga is committed to setting goals, sharing results, and being held accountable through ChattaData, similar platforms, and public and stakeholder engagement throughout Smart City implementation.”

ChattaData looks like a very helpful data set management and online service portal in its current iteration.

The smart city infrastructure ‘selling points’ are in the plan. You are literally assembling the same infrastructure that then deploys like against Londan as ULEZ or Bath or Gasglow. It is the same infrastructure that goes into China to watch and collect data against? or for? citizens.

“Urban Automation

• Autonomous car share enables accessibility

• Autonomous Fixed route shuttle lowers operating cost for key urban core transit

• Autonomous dedicated lane express transit to serve as interim solution to light-rail need for inter-city transit

• Autonomous airport shuttle from Multimodal Transit Center to Chattanooga Airport

• Autonomous freight delivery reduces urban core congestion

• Automation of data collection and processing by the Adaptive Traffic Signal Control system allows the infrastructure to respond to real-time network conditions for conventional traffic.

• Automatic pedestrian signal operation through smart device integration to enhance accessibility

• Automated activation of dedicated bicycle signals only when bike traffic is present

• Mobile-Eye crash avoidance system for transit. Connected Vehicles The vision for connected vehicles is to provide the technologies required for robust Vehicle-toVehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications throughout the urban core. (lLAWYERLISA: WILL THIS ENABLE REMOTE CONTROL ESSENTIALLY? YES?)

This infrastructure will enable Emergency Vehicles, Transit and Freight prioritization throughout the City in the short-term, and have the capacity to handle additional Connected Vehicle (CV) applications in the future.

• Vehicle-to-Infrastructure data flow is bidirectional. Provides data on vehicle metrics and is capable of pushing data to vehicle. o Adaptive Traffic Signal Control can utilize the data for speed harmonization or truck platooning.

o Safer driver operation by providing instructions during traffic affecting events.

o Dedicated Short Range Communication provide speed and positioning data for signal prioritization.

o Status updates for at grade railroad crossings and draw-bridge openings.

• Vehicle-to-Vehicle data flow is bidirectional. Provides data between vehicles for spatial information for roadway positioning and vehicular platooning. Speed harmonization, collision avoidance and red-light running”

sMART doesn’t require us does it.

Smart is the infrastructure that seems so much a part of PROGRESS. except when is it turned against the people. not in its first iteration. When I look at Chatt’s documents I only see the advantages of a connected smart grid. it seems like very responsible civic minded people are developing this. People who want to develop and deliver responsible services to their communities.

“Data Collection The city currently collects and publishes a number of existing datasets from its departments and agencies. Much of this data is relevant to the city’s five priority areas and subgoals, which are defined with specific and measurable performance metrics. This data currently available public includes: crime data, Chattanooga.gov website analytics, traffic citations by location, CARTA GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification of bus routes), bicycle parking locations, maps with railroad locations and parking surfaces, map with Bike Parking Locator, CARTA bus ridership, potholes filled, funding amounts for traffic engineering and other transportationrelated costs, and Bike Chattanooga user trip data. CARTA also has a system to collect additional information on the bus system, including a real-time automatic vehicle locator (AVL) feed.”

It is hard to find fault with this data set collection or the idea of the smart city in this existing iteration. It looks very civic minded and responsible.

Doesn’t it?

However, should Chatt decide on a climate plan that decides to invoke REDUCTION OF VEHICLE EMISSIONS through Low Emission Zones, through blanket 20km an hour (10miles) zones, through restriction of types of car ownership etc, it has the smart means to enforce it.

Stay tuned for my Chatt analysis. Make sure you put your request in. Climate plan next.