Metro - File #: 2022-0472

• File #: 2022-0472
• Type: Contract
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/12/2022
• In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
• On agenda: 11/17/2022
• Final action: 12/1/2022
• Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to award a firm fixed price Contract No.PS87006000 to Kimley-Horn for the design, development, and implementation of a wireless cloud-based transit signal priority (TSP) system on NextGen Tier One network in the City of Los Angeles for a total contract amount of $5,668,680, subject to resolution of properly submitted protest(s), if any.
• Sponsors: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Commit
• Indexes: All Door Boarding, Budgeting, Bus Acquisitions, Bus rapid transit, Bus Speed Improvements, Central Los Angeles subregion, City of Los Angeles, Construction, Contracts, Global Positioning System, Grant Aid, LADOT Transit, NextGen Bus Study, Partnerships, Plan, Procurement, Program, Project, Purchasing, Safety, San Fernando Valley subregion, South Bay Cities subregion, Transit boards, Transit buses, Transit System, Transportation Development Act - Article 4, Transportation Development Act of 1971, Travel time, Westside Cities subregion

Date	Action By	Action	Result
12/1/2022	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
11/17/2022	Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee

Meeting_Body
OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Subject
SUBJECT: NEXTGEN CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT - NEXTGEN WIRELESS CLOUD-BASED TRANSIT SIGNAL PRIORITY SYSTEM (TSP)

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to award a firm fixed price Contract No.PS87006000 to Kimley-Horn for the design, development, and implementation of a wireless cloud-based transit signal priority (TSP) system on NextGen Tier One network in the City of Los Angeles for a total contract amount of $5,668,680, subject to resolution of properly submitted protest(s), if any.

Issue
ISSUE

In October 2020, the Metro Board approved the NextGen Transit First Service Plan (the Plan), which includes phasing out the existing Metro Rapid system in favor of a new high-frequency Tier One network that is more extensive than the existing Rapid system and will use different series of Metro buses.

A loop-based transit signal priority system was installed by Los Angeles Department of Transportation on selected transit corridors within the City of Los Angeles as part of the initial Metro Rapid system. The NextGen Wireless Cloud Based TSP project is one of the key components in the Plan to improve bus speed, reliability, and will replace the loop-based technology with GPS-Wireless technology using an Internet Cloud Service TSP system.

Background
BACKGROUND

In 2018, Metro began the process of redesigning the bus system to improve the service for current and future riders. The Plan was approved by the Metro Board in October 2020 after extensive public outreach and review. The public communicated to Metro that improving bus speed and reliability is the single most important step Metro can take to retain and grow ridership by increasing the people throughput capacity of local roadways and shifting regional travel patterns toward more sustainable modes.

The Plan proposed improvements that would speed...