WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT Since 2019, JTA has partnered with the Florida State College in Jacksonville on projects that provide opportunities for formal training on autonomous mobility solutions including: • AV Operations and Fleet Management • AV Command Center Monitoring and Incident Response • AV Fleet Maintenance In 2022, FSCJ was awarded accreditation for their autonomous and connected vehicles curriculum. The JTA and its partners were active participants on their Business and Industry Leadership Team, tasked with creating this first of a kind curriculum. JTA and our U 2 C private partners recognize the need to prepare the workforce of the future for exciting job opportunities in autonomous mobility. We are also addressing factors which might impact public transit and the legacy labor force with the introduction of autonomous mobility as a public transportation service. This includes providing the existing workforce with the necessary training on additional skills to secure new, often higher paying technology centric roles, that will come available as agencies augment their existing services with autonomous technology solutions. FSCJ AV SHUTTLE The JTA, FSCJ and Beep Inc. have deployed a new mobility service for students, faculty and visitors on the FSCJ Downtown Jacksonville campus. The autonomous and elective vehicle shuttle connects the Advanced Technology Center, President’s office, and Cafeteria over a one-mile route to enhance
movement between these segmented areas of campus. As part of the autonomous vehicle program, FSCJ’s Downtown Campus, faculty, staff and students experience autonomous vehicles operating on campus first-hand. Feedback and learnings from the program build upon the existing knowledge base of this emerging technology as it continues to develop the FSCJ curriculum, skillset and workforce to support these transformative transportation solutions. The project is one of many planned "Agile”
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programs pioneered by the JTA team to prepare the Jacksonville community for the future of transportation through the Ultimate Urban Circulator (U 2 C) program. These important projects will validate the wide variety of applications for autonomous vehicles throughout the community ahead of the launch of phase one of the U 2 C, the Bay Street Innovation Corridor in 2025. Expanding the testing of autonomous vehicles in FSCJ’s Downtown Campus will also continue to ready the community for how autonomous technology will enhance the quality of life for all who learn, live, and work in the City of Jacksonville.
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