san francisco municipal transportation agency (sfmta)
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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) owns and operates the public transportation system and manages the traffic controls and operations for the City and County of San Francisco. SFMTA's public transportation system includes light rail vehicles, cable cars, and diesel and electric buses, operating on 80 lines, totaling over 1,000 miles. SFMTA's traffic operations and management system includes a large network of traffic signals, parking meters, signs, and street/curb markings. In addition, SFMTA's extensive CCTV cameras, fiber optic, telecommunications and wireless networks help support the City's transit and traffic operations.
Municipal Railway (muni)
SFMTA's Municipal Railway (MUNI) has over 150 engineers and planners who plan, design and build its projects to improve and maintain SFMTA Traffic and Transportation facilities.
The MUNI has 50 active projects totaling over $2 billion. These projects provide diverse engineering opportunities for vehicle, software, control, electrical, mechanical, civil and construction engineers of sophisticated nature in the design and construction of track, SCADA, power, control and signal systems; station structures, roadways and drainage facilities.
Current programs include the Central Subway Light Rail, Bus Rapid Transit, Traffic Signal, Traffic Priority, Communications System Expansion, Intelligent Transportation System, Overhead Rehabilitation, Cable Car Infrastructure Rehabilitation, Wayside Fare Collection, Radio System Replacement, Automatic Vehicle Location System, Rail Replacement, Traction Power System Upgrades, Facilities Preservation, Bicycle Plan, and Pedestrian Plan.
Department of Parking and Traffic Division (dpt)
The mission of the DPT is to facilitate the safe and efficient use of City streets by motorists, public transit vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians, and to develop solutions to parking issues that affect the viability of residential and commercial neighborhoods.
Traffic Engineering Section
The Traffic Engineering Section is responsible for designing, directing and managing all traffic engineering functions within San Francisco, including placement of traffic control devices, traffic striping, curb markings , and parking meters to promote the safe and efficient movement of people and goods throughout the City.
Traffic Management Group
The Traffic Management Group is primarily responsible for the parking and traffic operations in the City. The group is constantly seeking solutions to the City’s ever-growing problems of parking shortage and traffic congestion. Traffic Management engineers investigate and respond to citizen requests regarding parking and traffic issues. Traffic Management engineers also prepare and track legislation to implement parking and traffic changes. The section manages and conducts traffic operations-related tasks, such as the Residential Parking Program (RPP), Color Curb Program, traffic counts, speed surveys, parking studies, and isolated signal timing changes.
Traffic Routing Group
The Traffic Routing Group is responsible for developing traffic routing specifications and traffic control plans for all street construction projects in the City. The specifications and plans are included in the final contract package. This group also provides design support on various capital projects. The traffic routing specifications and plans include: determination of construction schedule to minimize the impact to the traveling public, providing traffic lane requirements during construction, developing traffic control and detour plans when a street is under construction or closed to traffic, and providing traffic prohibitions for the safety of the traveling public and construction workers.
Special Projects and Street Use Group
This group consists of the following two subsections, Sales Tax/Special Projects and Street Use.
Sales Tax/Special Projects
The Sales Tax/Special Projects subsection is responsible for coordinating the selection process for new traffic signal, full upgrade, and minor upgrade locations, including performing conceptual traffic signal design. This subsection is also responsible for performing area-wide and corridor-specific signal timing changes throughout the City. In addition, the engineers in this section provide traffic engineering support to other City agencies.
Street Use
This subsection handles a variety of permits including special traffic permits (requests by contractors to occupy traffic lanes for construction work), temporary street closure permits (due to special events such as marathons, street festivals, etc.), and extralegal vehicle permits (applies to trucks whose dimensions or weight exceed the California Vehicle Code’s definition of legal vehicles).
SFgo
SFgo is San Francisco’s Integrated Transportation Management System (ITMS). It will be a citywide, real-time transportation management system that will incorporate various Intelligent Transportation System infrastructure components, such as closed-circuit television cameras, changeable message signs, and a fiber optic network. The entire system will be implemented in multiple stages with each stage focusing on specific corridors or geographical areas of the City. Each stage will be fully functional upon completion and will operate in coordination with system partners in the public sector such as MUNI and CalTrans and potentially in the private sector.
