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Intelligent Transportation Systems

Communications and network infrastructure across more than a thousand signalized intersections.

Also known as ITS, Traffic Systems

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Architected the communications and network infrastructure for the City of Jacksonville’s intelligent transportation system across more than one thousand signalized intersections, working alongside the Traffic Engineering Division.

Traffic engineering owned signal timing and flow strategy. This work owned the layer that made it possible: field communications out to a thousand-plus roadside cabinets, transport that stayed up when segments did not, and central management platforms able to receive and act on what the roadside sent back.

Subtopics

  • Automatic Vehicle LocationFleet telemetry that starts as a traffic problem, becomes an operations tool nobody planned for, and splits along agency lines because the vehicles that matter most are on something else.
  • Roadside DetectionCounting vehicles and the people inside them — the two questions that decide whether ITS data is worth acting on.
  • Emergency Vehicle Signal PreemptionWhere ITS stops being a traffic-efficiency program and becomes a life-safety system.

Applied in

  • State and Local Government Delivery2025–2026A state transportation department data center relocation inside a single summer window, and county switching, firewall and platform replacement alongside it.
  • Jacksonville Intelligent Transportation System2006–2024Communications and network infrastructure across more than one thousand signalized intersections for a consolidated city-county.
  • JTA and Downtown Transit Connectivity2006–2023Seventeen years on the boundary between two public agencies that could not direct one another — first as the city's architecture review on transit proposals, then as owner of the interconnect itself.
  • Parking Meter Infrastructure2013–2019Communications and back-end connectivity for street-level metering, with the traffic enforcement division.
  • Automatic Vehicle Location Program2006–2016A transit and traffic system that became a public works and code enforcement fleet estate — 167 units across thirteen divisions, owned from the transport underneath it to the strategy on top.
  • One Spark Festival Wireless2013–2015Forty-two access points in downtown traffic signal cabinets, backhauled over the fiber that runs the lights, with Ubiquiti mesh between intersections as the fallback and a tenfold internet burst for the week.
  • Emergency Vehicle Signal Preemption2008–2015ITS integrated with vehicle location so responding apparatus could clear the route ahead of them.

Career

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Also searched as

  • smart city
  • connected infrastructure
  • V2I
  • adaptive signal control
  • traffic telematics