Not a Pilot - A Test Track

The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA), a transit system in Florida, is progressive when it comes to technology of all kinds. Look at it's multimodal and multi-purpose website, TransPortal. Autonomous shuttles testing is part of the plan, though JTA is not initiating a pilot project. Instead the transit system will use a test track for trying out different AV shuttle vehicles as part of its vision for a monorail-type skyway, which is dubbed the "Ultimate Urban Circulator."

The controlled, small-scale test track allows JTA to work out the kinks of autonomous transit, but it also gently introduces the public to driverless technology, JTA Vice President of Planning, gently introduces the public to driverless technology, JTA Vice President of Planning, Development and Innovation Brad Thoburn previously told the Business Journal. ... "It's why something like a test track is important, to get the public comfortable with it," he said at the time.