San Mateo County Alternate Route Plan and Smart Corridors

The San Mateo City/County Association of Governments (C/CAG) has embarked on a unique and proactive Incident Management Program that will develop and deploy ITS elements along a parallel corridor to create a Smart Corridor that will enable local public works agencies to manage incident traffic that is diverted onto local streets. The Alternate Routes will include dynamic route guidance signs, video surveillance cameras, traffic signal flush plans, arterial travel times, transit priority, and integration with Caltrans and California Highway Patrol (CHP) operations to reduce the impacts of congestion on local operations and freeway queuing. This paper presents the successful steps taken that have strongly positioned the San Mateo C/CAG to deploy an effective incident management strategy including an Alternate Route Plan, Infrastructure Improvement Plan, Smart Corridors Concept of Operations, and funding appropriations.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Durrenberger, Randy
  • Hoang, John
• Conference:
  • 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America's 2008 Annual Meeting
  • Location: New York NY, United States
  • Date: 2008-11-16 to 2008-11-20
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Maps; Tables;
• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: ITS Connections: Saving Time. Saving Lives

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated highways; Detours; Incident management; Intelligent transportation systems; Route guidance; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow; Traffic incidents; Transportation corridors; Travel time; Variable message signs
• Identifier Terms: California Department of Transportation; California Highway Patrol
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation infrastructure
• Geographic Terms: San Mateo (California)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01146674
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 22 2009 9:00AM