Diridon to Airport Connector
Pre-Development Agreement for Business Case and Feasibility Validation John Ristow, Director of Transportation
John Aitken, Director of Aviation
Ramses Madou, Division Manager
Brian Stanke, Project Manager
San José Mineta International Airport
Department of Transportation
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Overview – What and Why
• Connects two important regional transportation hubs
• Automated transit vehicles on dedicated guideway
• Optional Intra-Airport Connector
• Potential for future expansion
Why City-Led?
• VTA focused elsewhere
• City is willing to innovate
• City has full partner integration: Airport, City Streets, Permitting, Operating Franchise
Why Now?
• Airport Expansion
• Diridon Integrated Station
• Land Availability
2 Recommendation
3 Enter Phase 1 Pre-Development
Agreement with
San Jose Connection Partners
(Plenary)
SCOPE
Project Management Plan
Feasibility Validation Report
Transit Solution & Business Case
DURATION 6-12 Months
BUDGET Under $1 million
San Jose Connection Partners
Plenary Americas (Investor Member)
• Webcor/ Obayashi (Lead Contractors)
• HNTB (Lead Designer)
• Glydways (Technology Provider)
• ACI (O&M Provider)
Council Direction
• February 4, 2019 – P resent technology and alignment options f
or connecting San José Mineta International Airport to Diridon S
tation
• August 25, 2020 – A dvance Connector using either a Public or a P
ublic Private Partnership delivery model
• April 19, 2022 – A pproved an ordinance authorizing the use of Public-Private Partnership delivery model for the project 4 Aim: Significantly Reduce Cost
• Current construction price for Automated People Mover (APM) systems is over $800 million/mile
• Operating and maintenance costs over time are higher than capital costs • Lower capital cost systems such as busses would cost millions per year in operating subsidies
• City ask to market in RFP:
• Build for under $500 million, less than a quarter the cost of APM systems • Private investor pays some of the capital costs and all operating and maintenance costs, in exchange for fare revenue
5 Public-Private Partnership (P3) Delivery
At-risk, multi-phase, Pre-Development Agreement (PDA)
Goals include:
6 • Leveraging market know-how
• Finding the right technology solution
• Finding the right project partner
• Minimizing public funding
7 Pre-Development Agreement Phases
We are
here
PHASE 1
Duration
6 to 12 months
Scope
Project Management
Feasibility Validation
Report
(Transit Solution &
Business Case)
Budget
~$1 million
PHASE 2
Duration
Approximately 2 years
Scope
Preliminary Engineering
Environmental Review
Budget
~$20-25 million
PHASE 3
Negotiate
Implementation
Agreement
Construction
and
Operating
Franchise
Budget
~$300-500 million
(including private
investment)
City Council Decision Point
San Jose Airport Connectors
(ACS)
Significant Market Outreach
Our eventual ‘Request for Proposal’ was informed by a comprehensive five-year planning effort, covering RFI, market testing, and even unsolicited proposals.
Three Proposers
1 Our Ask From the ‘RFP’ Resulted in...
• Private partner for pre-
development work
• Expertise and innovation
in transit technology,
project planning and risk
allocation
• Long-term revenue-risk
DBFOM project
• Total project cost of no
more than $500m
2 3
San Jose Connection
Partners (Plenary)
The Boring Company
8 Responsiveness and
Responsibility Review
Pass/Fail Evaluation of
Technical and
Commercial Proposals
Evaluate Team Proposal
Evaluate Technical
Proposal
Evaluate Financial
Proposal
Evaluation Process
Scoring
San José Connection
Partners (Plenary)
San José Airport
Connectors (ACS)
Team Proposal 2,683 2,557
Technical and Commercial Proposal 2,753 3,573
Financial Proposal 2,000 200
Overall Score 7,436 6,340
Overall Rank #1 #2
9 Plenary Team
Reference Projects
• Réseau Express Métropolitain (~$4.5b), 42-mile automated light metro • Long Beach Civic Center ($500m), various civic facilities • Crenshaw/ LAX Transit ($1.8b), 8.5-mile light rail transit system • Ultimate Urban Circular – Jacksonville, 5-mile autonomous vehicle network • Transbay Transit Center ($1.6b), Transportation Hub
• Dubai Metro – Red/ Green Lines (~$6.4b), 80-mile automated light rail 10 Glydways Transit Technology
11 Autonomous Electric
Vehicles
Low-Cost
Infrastructure Customer Experience
Questions?
Recommendation
a. Make findings for Design-Build-Finance-
Operate-Maintain method of project delivery
b. Authorizing the City Manager or their
designee to negotiate and execute
Agreement with the San José Connection
Partners, led by Plenary Americas and
c. Authorizing the City Attorney to negotiate
and execute a Third Amendment to the
Agreement with Ashurst LLP for legal
services
Staff
John Ristow, Director of Transportation
[email protected]
John Aitken, Director of Aviation
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Ramses Madou, Division Manager
[email protected]
Brian Stanke, Project Manager
[email protected]
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