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FDOT, University to Build High-Tech Testing Center

Florida DOT (FDOT) signed a long-term partnership with Florida Polytechnic University to build SunTrax, a new, state-of-the-art transportation technology testing facility and hub for research, development and testing of emerging transportation technologies related to tolling, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and automated and connected vehicles.

SunTrax will feature a 2.25-mile oval track on a 400-acre site in Polk County, centrally located between Tampa and Orlando.

The initial phase of the project will focus on a toll-testing facility, with the oval track designed to include features similar to those used in current highway widening projects.

The next phase includes developing the 200-acre infield of the track as a hub for automated and connected vehicle testing. FDOT officials say the hub could include such features as a learning laboratory for Florida Poly University students, a simulated city center, suburban and rural roadways, interconnected signalized intersections, interchange ramps, roundabouts and various types of ­pavement, among others.

Officials said the completed hub will be fully equipped to conduct research, development and testing for data and security, vehicle safety and equipment certification.

An artist’s rendering of SunTrax, a transportation technology testing facility in development in central Florida.

Illustration courtesy of FDOT/Florida Polytechnic University

 
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