Want to know what transportation projects are proposed for Spokane County, what your alternatives are to driving alone, and how to find out about local road closures or backups caused by accidents and other incidents? This blog is designed to educate the public on all transportation-related issues in Spokane County.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Transportation Management Centers Keep Things Moving On The Roads
Did you know Spokane has a traffic management center? It's called the Spokane Regional Transportation Management Center and it's located right here in our office. Center operators monitor area traffic through over one hundred live traffic cameras and other types of technology and call for help to keep traffic moving if they notice traffic accidents, cars with mechanical problems, debris on roadways or anything else that could slow things down.
It's very similar to this transportation management center in Seattle that King 5 News did a special report on, only on a smaller scale, as our traffic is on a smaller scale.
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
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