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The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be…
Positioning your Agency for an Unimaginable Future
April 9, 2019 Dave Zelenok, PE
Gov’t Services Mgr
DZelenok@HRGreen.com

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 Impact of Technology on Infrastructure
 Emerging technologies –
 Utilities, Fiber Optics & Municipal Broadband
 Smart Cities - Street lights, Signals, Infrastructure
 The Real Impact of Driverless Cars & Technology
 Secondary Consequences
 What can you do today to position for the future?
TONIGHT’s DISCUSSION…

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 Impact of Technology on Infrastructure
 Emerging technologies –
 Utilities, Fiber Optics & Municipal Broadband
 Smart Cities - Street lights, Signals, Infrastructure
 The Real Impact of Driverless Cars & Technology
 Secondary Consequences
 What can you do today to position for the future?
TONIGHT’s DISCUSSION…

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First – A Little Background…
Example: No New “Fortress Malls,”
Replaced by “Urban Centers” – No Driving Needed
Residential + Recreation + Retail
12% of ALL retail is now on-line
Q: What ELSE IS DYING?

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•Fortress Malls?
•Road Widening Projects?
•Privately Owned Vehicles?
•Car Ownership - Car Dealers?
•Parking Garages & Lots
•Mass Transit (Yes, $1B Light Rails)?
•Gasoline Stations?
•Traffic Signals (Really!)
•Three-car garages – who needs to own 3 cars?
•Congestion– profound changes
R.I.P
R.I.P
R.I.P
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The END of the LINE… Say GOODBYE to:
2040

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•Electric DRIVERLESS CARS
•Sensors Everywhere: “V2V” & “V2I”
•5G Telecom – Cell Towers every 300’
•Street lights Reimagined
•Streets without Traffic Signals
•Fiber, Fiber Everywhere
Say Hello To:

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Autonomous – Self-Driving - Driverless

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So – WHAT’s the BIG DEAL?
Transit – 5% (maybe)
Carpooling – 5 % (maybe)
Telecommuting – 10-20% (maybe)
Driverless Capacity – 300 (yes) 300%

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So – WHAT’s the BIG DEAL?
Transit – 5% (maybe)
Carpooling – 5 % (maybe)
Telecommuting – 10-20% (maybe)
Driverless Capacity – 300 (yes) 300%

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Has This Ever Happened Before - ?

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Has This Ever Happened Before - ?
Complete Modal Transformation: 12 Years
Infrastructure – Catching up 100 years
Cell Phone – SMART Phone
10th Anniversary – June 2017

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Has This Ever Happened Before - ?
Complete Modal Transformation: 12 Years
Infrastructure – Catching up 100 years
Cell Phone – SMART Phone
10th Anniversary – June 2017Think 2040 is a long time in the future?
The “Soup Nazi” debuted 23 years ago

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Has This Ever Happened Before - ?
Complete Modal Transformation: 12 Years
Infrastructure – Catching up 100 years
Cell Phone – SMART Phone
10th Anniversary – June 2017Think 2040 is a long time in the future?
The “Soup Nazi” debuted 23 years ago

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Are just roads affected? Quick “DEEP DIVE:”
PARKING GARAGES ~50% increase in capacity

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Are just roads affected? Quick “DEEP DIVE:”
PARKING GARAGES ~50% increase in capacity
Q: Who wants to pay for parking when you can
send your car to run an errand for you:
OR - Park itself in the neighborhood
OR - Go for a joyride – CLOG the FREEWAY(?)
With the demand dropping for parking garages –
 Should downtowns stop investing in them?
 Should you stop building parking garages with
slanted floors and low ceilings?
 Can your parking garage be repurposed into
condos or retail?
Do You Have a Plan – Is It “Futureproofed?”

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Examples of real time alerts to city departments
 Stolen vehicle on a corridor
 Signal malfunction
 Abnormal vehicle congestion
 Obstruction on the road (tree falls tornado)
 Unusually large crowd
 Gunshots
 Water leak from aging pipeline
 Carbon monoxide levels, indicating a fire
 Flood warning
 Rain event = 1 Sec “all red” on traffic Signals: reduced accidents
 Citizens don’t care about General City Wide Alerts
 Citizens do care about conditions at kids’ school: self-defined data & alerts
Sensors Dashboards Action“Fog” Cloud

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Examples of real time alerts to city departments
 Stolen vehicle on a corridor
 Signal malfunction
 Abnormal vehicle congestion
 Obstruction on the road (tree falls tornado)
 Unusually large crowd
 Gunshots
 Water leak from aging pipeline
 Carbon monoxide levels, indicating a fire
 Flood warning
 Rain event = 1 Sec “all red” on traffic Signals: reduced accidents
 Citizens don’t care about General City Wide Alerts
 Citizens do care about conditions at kids’ school: self-defined data & alerts
Sensors Dashboards Action“Fog” Cloud

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What Are Others Doing – and Why?

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What Are Others Doing – and Why?

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Cellular Trends – LTE to 5G
Think: B&W to COLOR TV
SMALL CELLS: DOWNTOWN Porcupines!?!?
• A Transmitter on Every Block per provider: 3 Miles to 300 FEET
• 5G will require fiber optics into each transmitter
Fiber solutions can:
Create revenue
Control aesthetics
Abandon the mega sites?

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VAIL: Street lighting & FREE Wi-Fi

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Imagine Your Future –
Should Your Downtown Look Like a PORCUPINE?
Courtesy – City of Centennial

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Imagine Your Future –
Should Your Downtown Look Like a PORCUPINE?
Courtesy – City of Centennial
DOWNTOWN Houston:
ACTUAL small cell APPLICATIONS
By four wireless entities.
Hundreds of applications
~10 Blocks, 20 YES 20 - TOWERS

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It’s “Just” a (Very Important) Streetlight
 Agencies: Purchasing Streetlights
 Owning will reduce costs
 More important: asset value
 Even more savings: LED
 Lighting at the Next Level
 “Smart” Streetlights
 5G Cellular Enabled Small Cells
 Digital Signage
 Sensors & Counters
 Events / Wayfinding
* Graphic by IntelliStreets, Inc.
“ACORN” Light

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LED’s – reduce power expenses by 50%+
But – power often < 20% of total expenses
Cities now municipalizing lighting,
Paying separately for energy
Up-front capital and conversion costs
 R.O.I.s ~ 5-10 years
MILLIONS in cost savings possible –
Re-purposing street lights: Conduit Most Valuable!
Traffic signals, utilities and public broadband!
Street Light Municipalization
Streetlights…
From Cost to Revenue Source

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How do you get there?
Where are you going anyway?
 Area-wide audio system
 Technology interpretive
displays
 Imaginative smart lighting
 Programmable signage
 Business district wayfinding
 Temperature
 Air quality
 Smoke
 Leaking pipelines
EXPERIENCE SENSORS
Sooooo…..
How can you Get SMART?!?!

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So – IF Smart Cities are Inevitable
What Can YOUR DOWNTOWN do TODAY?
1. FIBER OPTICS = the common thread
2. Lacking Today
3. Under Your Control
4. You Can Do TODAY
5. Low Cost, High Impact
6. 20 to 1 returns (?)
7. PLAN – PLAN – PLAN!

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So – IF Smart Cities are Inevitable
What Can YOUR DOWNTOWN do TODAY?
1. FIBER OPTICS = the common thread
2. Lacking Today
3. Under Your Control
4. You Can Do TODAY
5. Low Cost, High Impact
6. 20 to 1 returns (?)
7. PLAN – PLAN – PLAN!

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#1: Short Term: Update Your Public Policies
• Develop fiber friendly policies
• Develop co-location program
• Consider street light municipalization
• Review your street cut program
• Create revenue recovery systems
• End city subsidization of street cutters
• Apply revenues to new program
• Update your management systems -
• New underground requirements
• Every inch of every utility should be mapped in
3D in your GIS at no expense to the city
• Small Cell Regulations = #1 PRIORITY!

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#2: Intermediate: Create Community Fiber
Identify fiber-related assets:
 GIS layers, records, conduits, strands, agreements, splice points, vaults, etc.
 Look for abandoned infrastructure
 Identify underutilized capacity
 AGAIN: DEFINE OWNERSHIP OF EVERYTHING IN YOUR STREETS
• Identify community partners and seek mutual benefit
• Leverage Federal/Local grant programs
• E-Rate (School/Libraries)
• Healthcare Connect Fund (Medical)
• RUS (Electric Providers)
• CDBG Funding
• State DOT Fiber

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•Facilitate private sector competition and consumer choice
•Exploring making some public assets available to private sector
•Encourage internet-based economic development, job creation,
new business start-ups and entrepreneurs
•Encourage the private sector to invest
•Franchise Agreements
•Encourage new private sector providers
•Facilitate access in public places
•Monetize access to connectivity assets
•Consider Legal Exemption, Analysis of Alternatives, gig-city
3 Step Program: LONG-TERM

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•Facilitate private sector competition and consumer choice
•Exploring making some public assets available to private sector
•Encourage internet-based economic development, job creation,
new business start-ups and entrepreneurs
•Encourage the private sector to invest
•Franchise Agreements
•Encourage new private sector providers
•Facilitate access in public places
•Monetize access to connectivity assets
•Consider Legal Exemption, Analysis of Alternatives, gig-city
3 Step Program: LONG-TERM
Sooooo…..
How can you Get SMART?
 PLAN NOW
 “FUTUREPROOF” YOUR DOWNTOWN!

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Final Thoughts – Did we cover everything?

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Final Thoughts – Did we cover everything?

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Final Thoughts – Did we cover everything?
The FUTURE is –
Not what it “used to be”
PS - It arrives tomorrow!
Q: How’s your schedule?

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The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be…
Positioning your Agency for an Unimaginable Future
April 9, 2019 Dave Zelenok, PE
Gov’t Services Mgr
DZelenok@HRGreen.com