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Transactions Newsletter
1998 Annual Report

Metropolitan Transportation Commission

Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Chart below: 1998 TravInfo Requests

Commuters increasingly are turning to TravInfo(TM), dialing 817-1717 (free from most Bay Area counties) for up-to-the-minute traffic reports and direct links to Bay Area public transit operators and carpool agencies. In February 1998, when heavy winter rainfall closed many Bay Area roadways, the number of calls for traffic information and road conditions (in red) spiked to nearly 10 times the typical monthly rate.

TravInfo chart
Chart below: 1997-98 Transit Information Web Site Visits

More and more, commuters and casual travelers are discovering the benefits of the TransitInfo Web site, which provides up-to-date schedules and route maps for more than four dozen transit operators in and around the Bay Area at the click of a mouse. Both usage measures -- total sessions, indicating the number of computers that logged on, and total requests, indicating the number of pages accessed -- have shown a steady climb since MTC assumed project management in mid-1996; an average of 112,175 transit riders a month used the service last year.

MTC Web visits

Annual Report Contents

BATA

Status report on bridge expansion program

Vehicle counts on Bay Area Bridges (With photos!)

Summary of Regional Measure One projects

BATA Revenues & Expenditures

MTC

Bullish year for transportation funding

Citizens applaud Regional Transportation Plan

TLC program aims to turn neighborhoods around

Transit and traffic info is just a
mouse click or phone call away

MTC pursues TransLink® universal ticket

View and download MTC statistics

SAFE

Keeping roadways SAFE

SAFE services

SAFE statistics for 1997-98

Facts and Figures

Bay Area's 10 worst traffic hot spots

In Print & Online

New: Transportation funding, paratransit resources,
transit operator statistics