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E-PASS Electronic Toll Collection and General Engineering Consultant
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Location:
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Orlando, Florida |
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Client:
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Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA) |
In the past several decades, Orlando has experienced tremendous growth, which has greatly outstripped the capacity of its highway system. The Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA) has sought to aggressively meet the expanding transportation demands of the region, through ambitious planning, funding, and accelerated improvements to Orlando's expressway system. For more than 18 years, PBS&J has served as the general engineering consultant (GEC) to the OOCEA, providing a complete range of planning, engineering and administrative activities which include program management, consultant coordination and review, traffic engineering, long-range transportation planning, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), strategic and financial planning, corridor alignment studies, preliminary and final highway design, toll facility design, and environmental permitting.
When the OOCEA upgraded its facilities to include electronic toll collection (ETC), PBS&J provided program management support for the $53 million E-PASS electronic toll and traffic management (ETTM) system. Services provided by PBS&J included concept development, development of RFP and performance specifications, design review and oversight, acceptance testing, construction observation, and contract administration. The project scope also included development, installation, and testing of over 200 lanes of toll equipment, 10 plaza computers, a system host computer, a customer service center for customer enrollment and account management, and a violation processing facility. As a result of design efforts for new toll plazas and improvements to existing mainline and ramp toll plazas PBS&J developed a prototype design that was adopted by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Office of Toll Operations for toll facilities throughout Florida.
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