OKI – Smart Car Survey, Ohio Gas Tax, Job Hub

Several interesting items came up at a recent OKI Board of Directors meeting I attended (representing Springdale.)  If you aren’t familiar OKI is council of local governments, business organizations and community groups that work together to develop collaborative strategies related transportation, jobs, and public works.  More practically, OKI approves ~$40 Million in funding for projects in the region.

Three items of note:

  • Smart Car / Autonomous Vehicle and Infrastructure Public Survey
  • Ohio Gas Tax
  • Job Hub site

The Regional Government group is looking for public input with a 10 question online survey related to smart cars and autonomous vehicles.  The survey can be found here (or through the link on OKI front page.  This survey will help the regional transportation planning group better plan and prioritize infrastructure projects.  It only takes a few minutes and the data really is used to influence projects.

The second item of the gas tax was not a OKI initiative but is related to so many projects it is worth mentioning.  The State reached an agreement on the gas tax which will flow millions to local badly needed infrastructure project in our county.  Also noteworthy is it adds a new State fee of $200 / $100 for Electric / Hybrid vehicles to reflect their use of public infrastructure that is typically funded with gas tax (which they largely sidestep).

Finally, OKI deployed a very interesting tool to better understand job centers, drive time (public and private) for areas around the region.  Using employment data and transportation data they created a tool to see where local ‘job hubs’ really are and travel times (private and public) to get there.  A very useful tool for regional planning!

 


What do you think?  Let your elected officials know!

email and phone numbers of all your City Council members are online – https://www.springdale.org/city-council/page/meet-your-city-council

and

City Administration as well –
https://www.springdale.org/mayor-clerk-council

or

Connect with your Neighbors –

https://www.facebook.com/groups/333111242219243


Related Links

Note – on July 31, 2023 Springdale released a new website and previous links were not maintained as well as many minutes and agendas offline.

Past Minutes and Agendas: https://www.springdale.org/meetings/recent
Upcoming meetings: https://www.springdale.org/meetings
Request Public Records: https://www.springdale.org/living-springdale/page/public-records-access

Previous Links:

OKI link
Autonomous Vehicle Survey link
Job Hub Tool link

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