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TransportationCommission | 2008-05-28 | 10 | 7A. Webster Street Intelligent System/Smart Corridors Project Staff Khan presented the staff report, and detailed the background and issues of this matter. Staff had been working with Alameda County Congestion Management Agency, AC Transit and the City of Oakland. The City will get some funding from the Transportation Fund for Clean Air, from the air district, and the funding will be distributed by the congestion management agency. He noted that staff was working with AC Transit, and understood that the San Pablo corridor had seen substantial benefit of having the signal priority implemented along the corridor. The signal would detect the bus up to a certain distance, and depending upon the speed and where the bus was, it would extend the green time depending upon the operation at that signal. In addition to benefiting transit riders, it could reduce the overall delay at that intersection for other vehicles. Staff Khan noted that the second element of the project was the signal coordination along the Webster Street corridor. He noted that was taken into account in giving the City funding. He noted that the third element was to provide better monitoring at intersections and at key locations, and also to have better data collection for vehicle speed and volume along the corridor. He noted that the advantage of having the cameras monitoring information available is that it could be available via internet to travelers, such as www.511.org or the Smart Corridors website. That would also help staff address the concerns of the Webster and Posey Tubes, at the points where backed up traffic would also impact other crossings in the City. He noted that was also a safety concern for the City to have better incident management. Staff Khan noted that the fourth element was to provide this information openly to the public as he described, and that it would give staff the opportunity to make changes as a result of monitoring intersections in real-time. Staff would be able to see such things as lane utilization and saturation flow rates. He noted that Webster Street was a key fire department access route to the medical center in Oakland. He noted that federal earmark money will be available through CMA for this project as well. He anticipated that ground will be broken in July 2008. Chair Knox White noted that bike and pedestrian funding generally came out of grants, as opposed to stable funding, and inquired whether this funding was considered a grant as well. Staff Khan replied that it was a grant, based on the population calculation. In response to an inquiry by Commissioner Krueger whether there would be money for installation of displays at bus stops, Staff Khan confirmed that there would be funds for displays. Chair Knox White inquired what the City would be getting for $800,000 that could be spent elsewhere. Staff Khan replied that incident management was critical for the Tubes, and that the Police Department has stated that in the last 10 years, over 4,000 calls had been received related to incidents in the Tubes. He noted that from the time saved in clearing an incident, there would be 10 | TransportationCommission/2008-05-28.pdf |