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Lafayette approves design contract and intercity MOU for emergency-vehicle traffic preemption system
Summary
The City of Lafayette approved a $206,400 design contract with American StructurePoint and an MOU with West Lafayette to coordinate an emergency-vehicle traffic signal preemption project funded largely by a Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) grant.
The City of Lafayette approved a $206,400 contract with American StructurePoint to design a traffic-signal emergency vehicle preemption system and separately approved a memorandum of understanding with the City of West Lafayette to administer the project jointly.
City officials said the system is intended to reduce emergency response time and lower the risk of crashes by giving green-signal priority to approaching emergency vehicles. The design contract is funded through a Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) grant structured as a 90/10 funding split; Lafayette staff said the $206,400 represents the city’s design-phase share and is roughly 10 percent of the project’s estimated total cost.
Engineering staff presenting the item said the design will cover signals on both sides of the Wabash River, including more than 200 traffic signals in the greater Lafayette area and a mix of INDOT-owned signals and locally owned signals that are city-maintained. The city plans to bid the West Lafayette side first and the Lafayette side afterward, with construction targeted in 2026.
Separately, staff presented an MOU that makes Lafayette the lead agency for the program because approximately 75 percent of the signals are within Lafayette city limits; under the MOU Lafayette would pay 75 percent of the required local matching funds and West Lafayette would pay 25 percent.
Council members asked for clarification about how the 90/10 grant would carry through later phases; an engineering presenter said they had reviewed the contract with INDOT and were confident funding had been awarded, but also said they were not certain how future phases would be invoiced or funded.
Both the American StructurePoint agreement and the intercity MOU were moved, seconded and approved during the meeting.
The decisions authorize design work and intergovernmental coordination; the contract and MOU do not themselves obligate construction funding beyond the approved design-phase payment.
