{"id":40465,"date":"2025-11-10T03:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/40465\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T03:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:43:11","slug":"jta-hosts-tokyo-delegation-to-showcase-jacksonvilles-autonomous-mobility-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/40465\/","title":{"rendered":"JTA hosts Tokyo delegation to showcase Jacksonville\u2019s autonomous mobility programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54d1ced6f6e184ee714b9017118195e5.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) hosted leaders from Tokyo\u2019s Highway Industry Development Organization (HIDO) last week to explore Jacksonville\u2019s innovative autonomous mobility programs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The visit focused on the JTA\u2019s groundbreaking U\u00b2C and NAVI autonomous mobility programs, which are at the forefront of autonomous public transportation in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan and Chris Miller, Jacksonville City Council member and District Director for U.S. Rep. John Rutherford, were present to welcome the delegation.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During their visit, the delegation from HIDO was given an immersive tour of the Autonomous Innovation Center (AIC) and experienced a ride aboard NAVI, the nation\u2019s first permanent autonomous public transportation service, operating through Downtown Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The visit coincided with a significant milestone for the JTA and HOLON, as they celebrated the establishment of America\u2019s first autonomous vehicle production facility in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) hosted leaders from Tokyo\u2019s Highway Industry Development Organization (HIDO) last week to explore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18513,27001,116,4040,118,117,27000],"class_list":["post-40465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-autonomous-vehicle","tag-chris-miller","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-city-council","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-tokyos-highway-industry-development-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40465","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=40465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}