City/Municipal government agencies within the US that, amongst other responsibilities, operate and maintain their own transportation systems.
| Area | Role and Responsibility |
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| Archived Data Systems | Support transportation planning activities that span the Canada/US border - planning joint operations, shared infrastructure, etc. |
| Collect transportation related data (traffic counts, accident history, etc.) to provide basic data quality, data privacy, and metadata management. |
| Emergency Management | Coordinate traffic control and resource sharing with public safety agencies during disaster response, recovery and evacuation situations. |
| Implement disaster response and emergency evacuation plans. |
| Share traffic information with the state DOT traffic management center during disaster response, recovery and evacuation situations. |
| Incident Management | Share traffic information with the provincial traffic management centre during incident situations. |
| Coordinate traffic control and resource sharing with public safety agencies and provincial traffic management centres during incident situations. |
| Traffic Management | Monitor traffic flow within municipally owned street network. |
| Share information on traffic conditions with other centres so traffic operations can be coordinated. |
| Manage traffic at signalized intersections within municipally owned street network. |
| Work with the ministry of transportation and public safety agencies to develop diversion response plans for freeway and bridge closures. |
| Operate and maintain infrastructure within municipalities - may include surface streets, signs, ITS devices, and control centres. |
| Monitor traffic flow approaching bridges and tunnels. |
| Coordinate traffic signal systems with adjacent municipal traffic management centres. |
| Provide traffic information to the public using the traveller information services (e.g. agency website, Interactive Voice Recognition system). |
| Traveller Information | Provide information concerning the conditions of the roadway including traffic congestion, incidents, maintenance activity or weather conditions to the travelling public either directly using traveller information services (e.g. website, social media) or through the media. |
| Provide information concerning the conditions of the roadway including, traffic congestion, incidents, or weather conditions to area public safety agencies. |
| Coordinate traveller information with other information service providers including other transportation operations centres, etc. |
| Collect and format data concerning road and travel conditions. |
| Collect and format data concerning maintenance and construction activities including asset restrictions from the municipality's maintenance services. |
| Responsible for developing and operating traveller information services, allowing travellers to access information (traffic congestion, road weather conditions) prior to a trip or en-route. |