Arterial Operations

Traffic Engineering Technical Assistance Program (TETAP)

The traffic engineering studies funded under the Traffic Engineering Technical Assistance Program (TETAP) receive technical assistance and expertise from program consultants procured by MTC. TETAP’s focus is to support a broad range of studies aimed at improving safety and mobility along arterials in the Bay Area, and promoting cooperation and collaboration across agency and modal boundaries. Project sponsors will be required to provide staff time to review the consultant’s four deliverables (a detailed work scope, schedule, and budget; project data memo; draft report; and final report) in a timely fashion to facilitate project completion

Program Focus Areas

• Safety –  identification of safety issues and development of effective strategies to reduce collisions, injuries, and loss of life;
• Mobility – development and implementation of strategies to decrease travel time in congested MTS corridors, provide travelers with relatively consistent day-to-day travel times, and provide travel alternatives; and,
• System Integration – promote cooperation and collaboration between agencies and across agency and modal boundaries.

A safety, mobility, or system integration project may fall within one of the following categories and types:

Project Categories

• Operations – projects that will result in immediate operations or safety improvements or easy-to-implement recommendations, e.g. develop and implement new signal timing plans or crosswalks, localized traffic calming measures.
• Analysis/Evaluation – projects that analyze problems or develop and evaluate strategies, e.g. collision analysis, before and after studies, or developing grant applications.
• Planning – projects that are likely to result in recommendations that are either more challenging to implement or whose benefits may take time to be realized, e.g. traffic signal system upgrades, analysis of safety policies and practices, or development of Smart Corridor operations and maintenance manuals.

Work Types

Appropriate work types include those that require traffic engineering expertise.  These may include, but are not limited to:

• Feasibility studies
• Before and after evaluations
• Development of technical information for grant applications
• Concepts of operations
• Conceptual designs
• Traffic operations evaluations
• Transit operations evaluations
• Traffic safety evaluations
• Technology comparisons
• Circulation studies
• ITS studies
• On-Call Services for technical questions