{"id":217638,"date":"2026-04-03T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217638\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:06:07","slug":"autonomous-vehicles-could-expand-around-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217638\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous vehicles could expand around Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacksonville Transportation Authority has begun seeking proposals for a pilot program that could include retrofitting buses and passenger vehicles with autonomous technology, an early indication of interest in expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/02\/25\/skyway-changes-jacksonville\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">self-driving public transit<\/a> beyond Downtown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h928631-p2\">In the request for proposals, filed as P-26-014, JTA says it \u201cis soliciting innovative technology solutions through a structured Test &amp; Learn Research &amp; Development (R&amp;D) program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/01\/21\/navi-autonomous-shuttles-beaches\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Autonomous NAVI shuttles could extend to the Beaches<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis includes but (is) not limited to the following Areas: Advanced Autonomous Vehicle Operations, Smart Connected Infrastructure, and related Safety Technologies that will be appropriate for the Pilot deployment of the AVs and technology surrounding it in support of the Ultimate Urban Circulator (U\u00b2C) Project in the Jacksonville urban core,\u201d the RFP reads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/apr\/01\/jta-exploring-citywide-deployment-of-autonomous-vehicles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Transportation Authority has begun seeking proposals for a pilot program that could include retrofitting buses and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-217638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}