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329 the road projects matched with the innovations in technology may not be envisioned in the same way that they are 330 today. 331 332 Andy Henry said that the final chapter of the plan will talk about vehicles that communicate with each other, 333 autonomous vehicles, but this is not in the model because they have not been able to observe the behavior of these 334 vehicles. Plans updated every 4 years, so once they know more, the plan will be updated, but these advances still 335 seem too far out. There are many debates regarding how this will play out that Mr. Henry has been hearing, like the 336 idea that urban environments could be denser with autonomous vehicles on the roads, or perhaps people will live in 337 rural environments and use the commute to do work while their car is driving into more urban environments. Future 338 models will incorporate ITS. 339 340 Alex Castro recommended that the MPO get involved with ITS - American to get into planning and the studying of 341 trends to get an idea of how this is moving and how that will impact our planning. 342 343 David Laudicina wondered if autonomous vehicles would really lead to give less traffic. 344 345 Heidi Perry said that if they were going at same speed they would travel more smoothly. 346 347 David Laudicina thought that connected vehicles would help on interstate and faster roads, though the vehicles could 348 be hacked. 349 350 Andy Henry said people still need to have a vehicle, it still has to come and pick up the passenger /owner, it will still 351 be on the road, maybe it will park farther away from downtown and parking needs will change. We will see over time. 352 Mr. Henry thanked the Board for its time and attention to his presentation. 353 354 Abigaile advised the Chair to return to the review of the minutes. 355 356 Tom Altieri referred to Andy Henry's note that the BOCC would receive a similar presentation on October 3, 2017. 357 The BOCC will then have the opportunity to put together some comments and will send them to the MPO. Tonight's 358 meeting gives an opportunity for the OUTBoard to get any comments to the BOCC when it hears presentation. There 359 is also a meeting October 2, 2017 among three of our elected officials who are representatives on the MPO Board, 360 Commissioners Jacobs, and Rich, and Marcoplos (not officially a representative for the MPO) will also be joined by a 361 representative from the County Manager's Office, Theo Letman from OPT, and a few County planners as well to form 362 a work group. Since there is a lot to absorb with the MTP, this meeting will provide time for getting an early start on 363 looking at the table (the full segments to the table will be added to the materials). The OUTBoard can provide 364 comments to this work group for moving forward. The Chair of the OUTBoard, Heidi Perry, is unable to attend but 365 Abigaile Pittman will be attending. Alex Castro, Vice Chair is also available to attend. 366 367 Alex Castro said that Abigaile Pittman had provided to the Board this past June information on an MPO presentation 368 on managed motorways. He compared parts of that presentation to the case of Australia where they are controlling 369 motorways and how that is being developed. 370 371 Heidi Perry requested updates in the spreadsheet. 372 373 Tom Altieri said that any updates would be shared with the group. 374 375 Heidi Perry said that she wants mileage to be added and a column that says what benefit a project is bringing (i.e. 376 adding 2 lanes to an interstate for $30 million, what are you getting for it? If these changes save 5 minutes each day, 377 how does that translate and is it worth it ?). 378 379 Tom Altieri asked Andy Henry if Ms. Perry's requested updates could be broken out in the table. He noted that travel 380 time savings is run on the entire network but asked about the possibility for doing a breakout for individual factors. 381 382 Andy Henry replied that each project could not be broken out like this but that for some of them, a travel time index 383 could be updated with a cost per hour and delays; these calculations are for key corridors, the interstate. 11