Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee: Committee Meeting Notice, December 3, 2025

Summary

A meeting notice for the Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee of the House of Representatives, scheduled for Wednesday, December 3, 2025, from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM, with presentations on Innovation and Emerging Technologies in Transportation. The packet includes slides from the Florida Dept. of Transportation covering innovation in project delivery, workforce development, and research and innovation. The slides describe an Aggregate Grant Program with $37.5 MILLION invested since 2024, and state that over 50,000 alerts were sent to motorists since 2022. They close with a contact line for Jack Rogers, FDOT Legislative Affairs Director.

Summary drafted by a model from the document's text below and checked by script against that text before publication. It is a navigation aid, not a reading of what the document proves. Where AI is used

Full text

Text recognized from a scanned document; may contain errors. Pages 4, 7, 8, and 14 of 21 are not shown because the text could not be recognized reliably.

Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee

Wednesday, December 3, 2025
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Reed Hall (102 HOB)

Daniel Perez Chip LaMarca
Speaker Chair
Committee Meeting Notice
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee

Start Date and Time: Wednesday, December 03, 2025 03:30 PM
End Date and Time: Wednesday, December 03, 2025 05:30 PM
Location: Reed Hall (102 HOB)

Duration: 2.00 hrs

Presentations on Innovation and Emerging Technologies in Transportation

NOTICE FINALIZED on 11/24/2025 2:43PM by Marks.Amie

11/24/2025 02:44:02PM Leagis ® Page 1 of 1
Florida Dept. of Transportation
A LEADER IN
TRANSPORTATION

We know what it means to have a world-class transportation system

MOST SPACE LAUNCHES IN 12,273 TOTAL STATE-MAINTAINED
THE WORLD LANE MILES ACROSS FLORIDA

3 LARGEST CRUISE PORTS ONLY STATE WITH 4 LARGE-
IN THE WORLD HUB COMMERICAL AIRPORTS

2ND HIGHEST AVIATION MOST MEGA PROJECTS IN
PASSENGER BOARDINGS FDOT'S HISTORY

IN THE U.S. (MEGA PROJECT = $500M+)
WHAT IT TAKES TO
MAKE THAT HAPPEN:

$

OUTFLOW PER DAY

BY THE NUMBERS 12,000+ $22 B
TOTAL ACTIVE TOTAL CONTRACT.
CONTRACTS VALUE

EVERY $1 INVESTED
IN TRANSPORTATION
YIELDS A RETURN OF
$4.26 IN ECONOMIC
BENEFITS ~ 3%
INNOVATING
TRANSPORTATION

HOW A NIMBLE TEAM IS KEEPING UP WITH FLORIDA'S
GROWING TRANSPORTATION NEEDS

FDOT\)

—_

6
INNOVATION IN
PROJECT DELIVERY

Congestion Relief Lanes

Modified Phased Design-Build
Voluntary Acceleration
Structured Acceleration

Risk Management in Construction
Partner Roundtables
WORKFORCE
DEVELOPMENT

FDOT\)

Florida Transportation Academy
On-Site Hiring Events
Construction Career Days
Student STEM Classes

Moving I-4 Forward Academy
Learning Labs

Walk-In Recruitment Center
mm D) Z

RESEARCH AND
INNOVATION

FDOT\)

Aggregate Grant Program

State Materials Office

Traffic Engineering Research Lab
State Structures Research Lab
Transportation Research Institute
SWIFTT Challenge

Partner Coalitions & Working Groups
RESEARCH & INNOVATION:
AGGREGATE GRANT PROGRAM

Increases storage capacity and ensures the
efficient movement of aggregate among Florida's

Storage capacity
increased by 5.5
million tons since
program launch

seaport and rail network

$

Keeps construction
projects on time

Over $116 million in
economic impact
since 2024

$37.5 MILLION |/

INVESTED SINCE 2024
FDOT)

—

RESEARCH & INNOVATION:
Florida Transportation Research
Institute

A. consortium of universities who work directly with FDOT
to develop, research, & implement projects that will
transform the transportation industry

Keeps Florida on the

Pools together
resources to conduct forefront of new
technology and

research as a state : :
engineering systems

Partner Universities & Colleges:

* University of Central Florida

¢ University of Florida

¢ University of South Florida

¢ Florida International University
* Indian River State College
EMERGING
TECHNOLOGY

Autonomous Vehicle Technology
Advanced Air Mobility & SunTrax
Drone Technology

Wrong Way Driving Technology
Lane Closure Notification System
Smart Work Zones
FDOT:

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY:
Advanced Air Mobility + SunTrax

Florida continues to lead the nation on
Advanced Air Mobility implementation, with
FDOT’s Business Plan unveiled in November

{st (4st ) {st

Advanced air
mobility aerial test

R&D facility for
both surface & air

U.S. mobility

To establish an aerial
highway network for

technology in the track in the US. advanced air

~

SUNTRAX Creal
FDOT\

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY:
Surface Technologies

WRONG WAY DRIVING VEHICLE
DETECTION SYSTEMS

Utilizes flashing signs and video/radar detectors that notify
motorists to self correct while.also notifying Regional Traffic
Management Center Staff and Florida Highway Patrol

LANE CLOSURE
NOTIFICATION SYSTEM

Provides drivers with alerts of upcoming
work zones or lane closures through GPS
navigation apps to ensure they pass
through the work zone safely

Over 50,000 lane closure alerts
sent to motorists since 2022
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY:
Drones

Drone technology is heavily utilized throughout our
transportation system:

P : Traffic Inspections for
Emergency Bridge Surveying & incident High Mast Lights,
Response Inspections Mapping M t Mast Arms, &
anagemen Overhead Signs

FDOT recently enabled the use of live-feed drone
systems which provide on-demand video anywhere,
allowing for more efficient operations & real-time
decision making during emergency response efforts
FDOT)

ENSURING SUCCESS ae

FDOT's continued focus to successfully TOO LS FACI LITI ES

meet the needs of our communities

PARTNERSHIPS TALENT TECHNOLOGY
17
THANK YOU

FDOT)

Jack Rogers
FDOT Legislative Affairs Director
Jack.Rogers@dot.state.fl.us
(850) 414-4147


File and source

File

2025-12-03_3286_economic-infrastructure-subcommittee_meeting-packets_fn-eis-12-3-25.pdf

Size

16,964,135 bytes

SHA-256

a2aed30ca7067b7f61e358ca59737cc784ac0d95f0b379085d12cd8976e323f7

Our copy

2025-12-03_3286_economic-infrastructure-subcommittee_meeting-packets_fn-eis-12-3-25.pdf

Original

No public link identified.