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Transportation system management and operations strategies provide money saving multimodal solutions that relieve congestion, optimize infrastructure investments, promote travel options, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Regional transportation safety

How can a regional approach help make our roads safer? What factors make roads more or less prone to crashes that cause serious injuries? What are the unique safety needs of the Portland area, as distinguished from other parts of Oregon?

Those are some of the questions explored in a new Regional Transportation Safety Plan that Metro and its partner agencies have developed.

Responding to a Federal Highway Administration recommendation, Metro has been working with local governments, ODOT, TriMet, consultants and researchers since 2009 to draft a Regional Transportation Safety Plan. The safety plan serves as a data-driven framework and more specifically urban-focused safety plan to build upon the state’s success and reduce fatalities and serious injuries in the Portland metropolitan region. The plan aims to help to meet the RTP target for reducing fatalities and serious injuries for all crashes by 50 percent.

Metro, in coordination with the regional safety work group analyzed crash data provided by ODOT and produced the first State of Safety in the Region report. This report provides the data foundation of the safety plan.

The Regional Transportation System Management and Operations Plan

The Regional TSMO Plan is a road map to guide transportation management solutions for the next 10 years. The plan includes strategies that support many regional transportation goals:

• Improve travel time reliability
• Reduce crashes
• Improve transit on-time arrival
• Reduce travel delay
• Reduce fuel use
• Reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions

Read the Regional TSMO Plan
Read the Executive Summary for the TSMO Plan

Intelligent Transportation Systems projects

Dozens of Intelligent Transportation Systems projects have been implemented around the Portland metropolitan area, many of them involving multi-agency coordination. An illustrative set of examples has been captured here in very brief case studies. The Intelligent Transportation Systems project fact sheets listed below illustrate the mobility, safety, and cost-effectiveness potential of investments in transportation technology.
Download the Intelligent Transportation Systems fact sheets below

Metropolitan mobility the smart way

Prepared by staff at Metro and the City of Portland with contributions by transportation planners and traffic managers in the public and private sectors, as well as Portland State University's Center for Transportation Studies, this brief but enlightening report shows that the region has the power to control congestion before it becomes gridlock. The executive summary and final report are available below.

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Related Documents

• Metro State of Safety Report 25.7M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published May 16, 2012
• Metropolitan mobility the smart way: Final report 2.7M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published October 20, 2006
• Metropolitan mobility the smart way: Executive summary 1.3M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published October 20, 2006
• Metropolitan mobility the smart way: Presentation 2.2M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 21, 2006
• ITS fact sheet: Truck weigh-in-motion 598K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
• ITS fact sheet: Integrated corridor management 991K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
• ITS fact sheet: Advanced incident response 911K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
• ITS fact sheet: Portland State University's ITS lab 127K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
• ITS fact sheet: Airport parking prepayment 697K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
• ITS fact sheet: Freeway ramp meters 157K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
• ITS fact sheet: Road weather information systems 479K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
• ITS fact sheet: Traffic signal coordination 384K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
• ITS fact sheet: Real-time traveler information 333K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
• ITS fact sheet: Truck safety signal 475K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
• Regional TSMO Plan: Final 12.5M Adobe Acrobat PDF
• Executive Summary Regional TSMO Plan 2010 2.3M Adobe Acrobat PDF