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CONTRACT K-1920-49: A CONTRACT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AND STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $274,022.31 TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE DESIGN OF A NEW TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER.
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BACKGROUND: A Traffic Management Center or TMC is a component of a transportation management system that improves traffic flow and incidence response. Many cities throughout the country, including Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Edmond in the state of Oklahoma, have TMC's designed to better manage the flow of traffic on their streets.
TMCs collect information about the transportation network and combine it with other operational and control data to manage the transportation network and to provide traveler information. TMCs communicate transportation-related information to the media and to the motoring public. It is a place where agencies can coordinate their responses to transportation situations and conditions. The TMC uses closed circuit video equipment, and roadside count stations to enable decision makers to identify and react to an incident in a timely manner based on real time data.
For the last two decades, the City has been working on the development of an Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) and communication network of underground fiber optic cable. There are currently ten closed-loop traffic signal coordinated systems and approximately 60 miles of fiber optic cable in the ground connecting 119 of the City's 153 traffic signals. The remaining 34 signals are stand-alone signals and are not part of a coordination system at this time.
The city utilizes video detection systems as its primary means of detection; however, a few intersections do feature in-pavement loop detectors. Where fiber optic cable is available at a given intersection with video detection, the feeds from these cameras are linked to the offices of the Transportation Engineer in the Municipal Complex and the Traffic Control Division Bui...
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