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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 10162001 - C.7 c � TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM: MAURICE M. SHIU, PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR DATE: October 16, 2001 SUBJECT: APPROVE the SMART Corridor Cooperative Agreement for Design, Construction and Administration and the Cooperative Agreement for Ownership, Operation and Maintenance between Contra Costa County and Alameda County Congestion Management Agency SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION I. Recommended Action: APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Public Works Director, or designee, to execute the SMART Corridor Cooperative Agreement for Design, Construction and Administration and the Cooperative Agreement for Ownership, Operation and Maintenance between Contra Costa County and Alameda County Congestion Management Agency, Richmond and San Pablo area. Continued on Attachment: X SIGNATURE: _ ECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE -;;APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(S): • ACTIONOFBOefON October 16 , 20(APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED xx OTHER 1 hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the VOTE OF SUPERVISORS Board of Supervisors on the date shown. xx UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: ATTESTED: OCTOBER 16 , 2001 JY::je JOHN SWEETEN, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors G:\GrpData\TransEng\2001\Bo-TE\BO SMART Corridor Coop Agreement.doc and County Administrator Orig.Div:Public Works(TE) Contact: Joe Yee (925)313-2258 cc: J.Bueren,Deputy PWD Byzwzt Deputy k SUBJECT: APPROVE the SMART Corridor Cooperative Agreement for Design, Construction and Administration and the Cooperative Agreement for Ownership, Operation and Maintenance between Contra Costa County and Alameda County Congestion Management Agency. DATE: October 16, 2001 PAGE 2 II. Financial Impact: There will be no financial impact to the general fund. The project is fully funded through Alameda County Congestion Management Agency with federal funds. III. Reasons for Recommendations and Background: The SMART Corridors program is a cooperative effort by the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency(CMA), Contra Costa County Transportation Authority(CCTA), and twenty- four other agencies to plan and implement a multi-modal advanced transportation management system along the San Pablo Avenue (I-80) corridor; and the I-880 corridor, which includes International Boulevard, East 14th Street, San Leandro Boulevard/Street, Hesperian Boulevard, and Union City Boulevard. The goal of the project is to allow the participating agencies to better manage congestion and incidents along regional routes, to improve transportation mobility, efficiency and safety, and provide timely and multi-modal transportation information to agency transportation managers and to the public. SMART Corridors use a variety of technologies to improve the performance of transportation systems, by promoting efficient use of the existing highway and transit systems, and reducing environmental costs to the public. The application of current and evolving technologies to transportation systems and the careful integration of these functions will provide more effective solutions to multi-modal and regional transportation requirements. The development and successful implementation of this project, and other similar SMART Corridors programs,will serve as a roadmap for the long-term direction of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)deployment in the region. The participating agencies have selected Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. to plan, design, and implement the SMART Corridors program for the San Pablo Avenue and I-880 corridors. The project is divided into four phases: • Phase I— Strategic Plan (Systems Engineering Study); • Phase II— Design and Preparation of Plans, Specifications and Estimates; • Phase III— Construction; and • Phase IV - Integration, Testing and Systems Acceptance. J SUBJECT: APPROVE the SMART Corridor Cooperative Agreement for Design, Construction and Administration and the Cooperative Agreement for Ownership, Operation and Maintenance between Contra Costa County and Alameda County Congestion Management Agency. DATE: October 16, 2001 PAGE 3 The SMART Corridors program has evolved into a multi-year, multi-phase program,which started through cooperative efforts of the local agencies in the San Pablo Avenue and I-880 corridors. Since 1995 there has been a number of major efforts to implement various infrastructure improvements in the corridors and to strengthen the interagency coordination and cooperation. Seven major regional efforts have been undertaken to address the transportation requirements along these corridors, as listed below: • East 14th Street Signal Interconnect Project; • Hesperian Boulevard Signal Interconnect Project; • San Pablo Avenue Signal Interconnect Project; • Hesperian Boulevard Transit Priority Project; • San Pablo Avenue Transit Study; • Data and Video Exchange Project; and, • I-880 Inter-modal Study. The current project is the continuation of these efforts to further advance the transportation management solutions along the San Pablo Avenue and I-880 corridors. Project Participants The SMART Corridors program has developed into a cooperative effort by a coalition of fifteen communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, along with congestion management, regional, state, federal, and transit agencies. There are a total of twenty-six participants in the current SMART Corridor program. The following are the current agencies involved with the project: • Alameda County Congestion Management Agency (CMA); • Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA); • Western Contra Costa Transportation Advisory Committee (WWCTAC); • Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC); • Federal Highway Administration (FHWA); • Federal Transit Administration (FTA); • California Department of Transportation (Caltrans); • California Highway Patrol (CHP); • Port of Oakland; • AC Transit; • West Contra Costa Transit Authority (West CAT); • Union City Transit; • Alameda County; • Contra Costa County; • City of Albany; • City of Berkeley; SUBJECT: APPROVE the SMART Corridor Cooperative Agreement for Design, Construction and Administration and the Cooperative Agreement for Ownership, Operation and Maintenance between Contra Costa County and Alameda County Congestion Management Agency. DATE: October 16, 2001 PAGE 4 • City of EI Cerrito; • City of Emeryville; • City of Hayward; • City of Hercules; • City of Pinole; • City of Richmond; • City of Oakland; • City of San Leandro; • City of San Pablo; and • City of Union City. Goals and Obiectives The goal of the SMART Corridors program is to allow local agencies to better manage congestion and improve transportation safety, mobility and efficiency along regional arterial routes. SMART Corridors permit efficient operation and management of existing roadway and transit resources through the integration and use of currently available technologies combined with strengthened institutional ties and inter-jurisdictional coordination. Concept of Operations plans were prepared for the San Pablo Avenue and I-880 corridors in 1999 through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Project participants in the two corridors identified the following goals and objectives. Local Arterial Operations • Improve collection and dissemination of real-time travel conditions along the arterials. • Provide accurate and timely information about the corridors to agency transportation managers and to the public. • Implement traffic responsive and time-of-day signal timing to improve traffic signal coordination and reduce delays along major corridors. Freeway/Arterial Operations • Minimize the intrusion of freeway traffic to local streets due to freeway congestion and freeway incidents. • Proactively manage traffic already diverted from the freeway to minimize its impact on local arterials and return regional traffic back to the freeway as soon as possible. SUBJECT: APPROVE the SMART Corridor Cooperative Agreement for Design, Construction and Administration and the Cooperative Agreement for Ownership, Operation and Maintenance between Contra Costa County and Alameda County Congestion Management Agency. DATE: October 16, 2001 PAGE 5 • Provide for rapid response to and clearing of incidents on freeways and surface Streets. Transit Operations • Improve on-time performance of transit service. • Reduce the travel times for buses. • Provide accurate and timely bus arrival information. Interagency Coordination • Improve sharing of resources between agencies for more unified transportation management operation along the corridors. • Share traffic information between the agencies to improve coordination and management activities. • Provide the capability for shared control and operation of the SMART Corridors components if desired by the agencies. IV. Consequences of Negative Action: Failure to approve the Cooperative Agreement could delay the project.