REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS

Chula Vista City Hall

1 Introduction 2 About the City of Chula Vista The City of Chula Vista seeks to build relationships and form With 268,000 residents covering 52 square miles in the partnerships with parties interested in the research and southwestern edge of California, Chula Vista is the second- development of autonomous vehicle (AV) and unmanned largest city in County and the 14th-largest city in aerial systems (UAS), including the software and hardware the state by population. Situated between Downtown San technology and infrastructure and related services to support Diego and the international border with Mexico, the city AV and UAS operations. benefits from a diverse, well-educated population and a robust transportation network. Interested parties are invited to prepare an Expression of Interest (EOI) package addressing the items listed under With traditional grid-patterned streets on the city’s historical the Submission Guidelines section of this document. While west side and master-planned smart growth communities there will be no award of contract based on responses to this in the city’s newer east side, along with multiple state and RFEI, the city intends to work with selected respondents to interstate highways and bus and transit lines, Chula Vista offers refine the EOI into a detailed, formal use case proposal that a unique variety of environments to test and deploy emerging leverages available public resources. Selected respondents transportation services and supporting infrastructure. The U.S. may also be pre-qualified to co-author state and federal grant Department of Transportation has designated the entire city applications with the goal of obtaining grant funding for Chula as an AV Proving Grounds, which clears the way for the city Vista projects. Responding to this RFEI in no way obligates and industry partners to foster innovations to safely transform the respondent or the City of Chula Vista to enter into any personal and commercial mobility and expand capacity. agreement. For more information and the latest updates on Chula Expressions of Interest (EOI) will be accepted on an Vista’s smart city activities, visit chulavistaca.gov/smartcity. ongoing basis.

Last Updated: 1/23/19 1 The city’s proximity to the national headquarters of major Overview of Facilities and Opportunity Areas technology companies — such as Qualcomm, ESET, ViaSat, 4 Kyocera, Maxwell Technologies and Cubic — provides a rich San Diego Regional Proving Ground variety of local business partnership opportunities. Similarly, In 2017, the U.S. Department of Transportation designated the proximity to major U.S. Navy and Marine Corps military Chula Vista and the broader San Diego region as one of 10 installations and related enterprises, such as Space and Naval Autonomous Vehicle Proving Grounds in the U.S., and one of Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), offers unique public- only two in the state of California. The region was recognized private opportunities. Numerous local colleges, universities and for its ability to demonstrate safety planning, willingness to research institutions — such as UC San Diego, San Diego State share information with industry and government partners, and University, the , Point Loma Nazarene commitment to compliance with all applicable laws, regulations University and National University — provide a pipeline of local and policies. talent to support new business in Chula Vista. Over the past 18 months, the city has worked with the San City staff has a positive reputation in the local business community Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) the region’s for being nimble, flexible and forward-thinking when it comes transportation planning agency and California Department of to new approaches to business, technology and development. Transportation (Caltrans) to establish the San Diego Regional This reputation is enhanced by staff’s commitment to openness Proving Ground (RPG), intended to be a real-world laboratory for and transparency and willingness to work with businesses and validating autonomous vehicle technology. The RPG includes organizations willing to invest in the city. all local streets and roads in Chula Vista, state Route 125 and Interstate 15. Chula Vista has a strong, strategic commitment to technological innovation and is a nationally recognized leader in the smart city movement. The city adopted a Smart City Strategic Action Plan in 2017, which outlines the city’s goals, objectives and initiatives related to technology and data integration, including AV and UAS applications. In 2017, the city also adopted a Traffic Signal Communications Master Plan, a comprehensive multi-year strategy for the deployment of an advanced traffic control network capable of integrating autonomous vehicle technology. Chula Vista is the only city in the country with federal designations spanning the entire jurisdiction for research and development in both AV and UAS......

Autonomous Vehicle 3 Objective The San Diego RPG is driven by a consortium of industry affiliates The City of Chula Vista is interested in leveraging its strategic and academic partners. While autonomous vehicles can be vision and unique physical assets to develop economic tested and deployed anywhere in the state of California with opportunities for residents and businesses. City leaders want appropriate permits from the California Department of Motor to further develop Chula Vista’s economic identity as a place Vehicles (DMV), San Diego RPG affiliates have streamlined where technological innovation is developed, tested, validated, access to local agency officials and receive expedited permitting deployed and refined. City staff is open to a broad range of for select City of Chula Vista and Caltrans road closures and possible relationships, partnerships and pilot programs in equipment installations. which the city becomes a collaboratory focused on innovation and growth, especially in the AV and UAS industries. Through One major project of the San Diego RPG is the Chula Vista this RFEI process, the city seeks to identify partners interested Mobility Hub, which will explore the concept of combining in testing or deploying AV and UAS technology and supporting multiple modes of transportation — bicycles, autonomous infrastructure in Chula Vista. The opportunity in Chula Vista is vehicles, bus transit, electric vehicle charging, on-demand unique in that all public rights of way in the city are accessible rideshare, etc. — in a central location. Planning for the Chula Vista for the testing and deployment of emerging AV and UAS Mobility Hub project is underway, with an in-depth workshop technologies. planned for Winter 2019.

Last Updated: 1/23/19 2 UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP) portions of the site are within controlled airspace while others In 2018, the Federal Aviation Administration designated Chula are outside of controlled airspace. The entire site is currently Vista and the broader San Diego region as one of 10 sites for unimproved vacant land with natural topographical variation. the UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP), which is designed to accelerate safe UAS integration and help the FAA craft enabling rules that allow complex, low-altitude operations.

One of the five local airspaces designated by the FAA as part of this pilot program is the International Border Airspace, which includes the entire City of Chula Vista as well as a portion of the City of San Diego reaching south toward the U.S.- Mexico border. Within this airspace, UAS testing qualifies for streamlined and expedited FAA waiver from typical standards, such as beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations, night operations, and operations over human beings. Technology to be tested includes detect-and-avoid, identification and tracking, unmanned traffic management, and cybersecurity.

Missions conducted within the local UAS IPP will be focused on two concepts of operations (CONOPS): ● Smart City, International Commerce & Public Safety— including the integration of UAS data feeds with on-the- ground infrastructure for analysis of pedestrian and vehicular traffic and parking availability; explorations of unmanned traffic management, remote identification and vehicle-to- vehicle communications; rapid deployment to crimes in progress, fires, traffic collisions and natural disasters, as well as UAS testing at the University Site routine inspection of infrastructure and detection of gunshots ● Medical & Package Delivery—including the transportation Mobility Hub of patient blood and pathology specimens over fixed routes; SANDAG is developing a Mobility Hub Concept of Operations as well as movement of high-value, low-weight goods for Western Chula Vista that will leverage technology and between businesses and homes new transportation services to expand personal mobility and improve access to transit. Mobility hubs seek to integrate The more than 20 partners participating in the UAS IPP include shared, electric, connected, and autonomous transportation Qualcomm, AT&T, GE, Airmap, Uber, Intel, CAPE, Matternet, services including connected vehicles and infrastructure; share ENVI, Verdego Aero, AUVSI, Infragard San Diego, the City (and autonomous) services like micro-transit and on-demand of San Diego, the Port of San Diego, San Diego Regional rideshare; electric vehicle infrastructure; micro mobility services Economic Development Council, UC San Diego Health System, (like bikeshare, scootershare, and neighborhood electric and Coleman University. vehicles) and other supporting amenities like package delivery and mobile services. The City of San Diego’s Office of Homeland Security is the lead ...... coordinator for all local UAS IPP activities for the San Diego region. Participants in the IPP have access to streamlined and Fiber-optic and DSRC The city recently signed master license agreements with major expedited waivers and exemptions through the FAA. cellular infrastructure providers, granting the city exclusive ...... dedicated access to multiple fiber strands along key corridors. University Site in the summer of 2019, the city will build additional fiber- This 375-acre site is owned by the city and has been optic cable along Broadway, a major north-south corridor designated by the City Council as the site of a future higher that connects the city’s northern and southern borders. The education institution. In the meantime, a portion of the new fiber-optic cable will integrate with the city’s adaptive site is being used by private sector companies to test UAS traffic control systems and will also enable the installation of applications and is one asset contributing to the overall Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) radios along success of the region’s UAS Integration Pilot Program. Some this corridor. Unmanned aerial system

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Maxwell Fleet Maintenance Center exterior

Maxwell Fleet Maintenance Center State Route 125 South Bay Expressway (Available Staging Facility) This 10-mile toll road, owned and operated by SANDAG, flows This former city vehicle maintenance center at 1800 Maxwell through the eastern portion of the city, connecting southeast Road (off Main Street near Interstate 805) includes 17,000 San Diego with the international border. The highway has a square feet of bay space with a crane and lifts. The lease value posted speed limit of 65 miles per hour. It intersects with five of this property is $1.30 per square foot, gross. local roads and has interchanges with State Routes 54, 905 and ...... 11. Opportunities exist to integrate closed-circuit TV, speed detectors, toll plazas, dynamic messaging signs, traffic signals, Millenia Mixed-Use Development etc. with AV and UAS operations. This 210-acre master-planned urban village brings together a ...... dense mix of uses, including apartments, condominiums, retail South Bay Rapid and office. When complete, Millenia will include nearly 3,000 This new bus rapid transit route is under construction and will homes and up to 1.5 million square feet of office space with begin operating later this year. The 26-mile route with 12 stops all new development provided with fiber to the premises. The connects the international border to Downtown San Diego office developments are fully entitled, and the first 500,000 via eastern Chula Vista, Interstate 805 and State Route 94. The square feet could be available within 18 months. route includes a six-mile dedicated transit guideway that will be ...... restricted to transit vehicles with available fiber provided along Bayfront Master Plan the entire route. The Chula Vista Bayfront spans more than 535 acres of vacant, ...... former industrial land along the San Diego Bay. After years MTS Trolley and Bus Service of planning and coordination with the Port of San Diego, The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) operates agreements are now in place to begin the development of a public bus and trolley service in the City of Chula Vista. The 275,000-square-foot convention center, a 1,600-room hotel, UC San Diego Blue Line is a light-rail trolley that connects the commercial office buildings, parks, walking trails, a marina and international border with Downtown San Diego and includes an RV park. The Bayfront will serve as a test bed for smart city three stops within city limits. The Mid-Coast Trolley project will applications and advanced energy management technologies. extend the line north from Downtown San Diego to UC San Diego. Service on the new portion of the route is expected to begin in 2021 and will create a direct light-rail connection between Chula Vista and UC San Diego.

Last Updated: 1/23/19 4 Emergency Services Coordination Section 1 – About Your Organization The city’s Police and Fire departments are committed to This is your opportunity to tell the city about your company technology and data innovation. Department staff will be or non-profit organization. Some questions to consider in available to work with respondents to develop the most preparing this section include: effective emergency response protocols related to AV and UAS ● What is the history of your company or organization, operations within the city. especially as it relates to AV and UAS? ● What are the backgrounds and qualifications of the key staff who would be involved in the proposed project? ● What partnerships or relationships do you have with other public entities? ● What types of safety protocols and liability precautions do you have in place? ● What financial capacity do you have to support the proposed activities? ...... Section 2 – Project Proposals Provide a detailed scope of the projects, pilots or other research and development activities you would like to explore in the City of Chula Vista. Some questions to consider City of Chula Vista adaptive traffic signals in preparing this section include: Traffic Management Center ● What are the details of the testing or deployment scenarios The city operates a Traffic Management Center using the you would like to explore? Transparity TMS that communicates to 250 of the City’s 272 ● What is the projected schedule and duration of testing or traffic signals. The city is in the process of upgrading its traffic deployment? signal network based on a Traffic Signal Communications ● What, if any, impacts would the project have on residents Master Plan adopted in 2017. The first phase, completed in 2018, and businesses? upgraded 29 intersections with adaptive traffic control systems ● What specific safety protocols would need to be in place? capable of integrating with AV and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) ● Can certificates of insurance with aggregate limits up to $2 applications. The city has also installed GPS-capable emergency million with the City of Chula Vista named as an additional vehicle preemption systems on most traffic signals. Additional insured be obtained and provided? projects and phases are currently in the planning stages......

For more information and the latest updates on Chula Vista’s Section 3 – City Support smart city activities, visit chulavistaca.gov/smartcity. Please provide detail about the support and coordination ...... needed from the City of Chula Vista to make the project, program or relationship successful. Some questions to consider in preparing this section include: 5 Submission Guidelines Responses to this solicitation should be prepared in the format ● What access would be needed to city facilities? Which specified below. Responses should be as clear, concise and facilities and how often? complete as possible. Responses should be submitted in PDF ● What policy support is needed from the city? format. Any questions should be directed to Kevin Pointer, Senior ● What operational support is needed from the city (for Economic Development Specialist, at [email protected]. example, road closures or equipment installation)?

Cover Letter What to Expect After Submitting an EOI Include a cover letter that identifies the name of your City staff will take 60 days to review EOIs and plan introductory organization and the name and contact information of the meetings with respondents having submitted EOIs that are primary point of contact. The letter should be signed and dated. consistent with the city’s goals and objectives. Following The cover letter may also include a summary or any other introductory meetings, city staff will work with selected information you would like for the city to consider. respondents to identify relevant resources and develop more detailed project, program and partnership plans. ■

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