Development of a Concept for Regional Transportation Operations for the Brazos Valley

Project Description

Within the Brazos Valley the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), Brazos County, the City of College Station, the City of Bryan, and Texas A&M University all share a common goal for operating and maintaining the transportation systems: to provide the safest, most efficient transportation system possible with the resources available. As a result, each agency has developed programs and deployed infrastructure that support the services that they provide. These agencies also have a long history of collaborating and working cooperatively to manage traffic regionally for construction projects, special events, or emergencies. However, as the community continues to grow, as systems and programs become more complex to develop and sustain, and as funding becomes more difficult to secure, there may be a need for these agencies to take a regional perspective, not only in coordinating activities associated with these special events and situations, but also in the day-to-day operations of the transportation system as whole. The purpose of this study is twofold: 1. To develop a regional concept for transportation operations for the Brazos Valley. 2. To fully explore whether it is desirable to utilize the Texas Transportation Institute's (TTI) TransLink® Laboratory in some manner for managing transportation operations in the area and to examine alternative arrangements for staffing the center.

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Link: http://translink.tamu.edu/

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