DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Traffic Engineering Division 30 W. Mifflin Street, Suite Mission, Goals and Objectives

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1 FAX: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Traffic Engineering Division 30 W. Mifflin Street, Suite Mission, Goals and Objectives To provide and manage the environmentally sensitive, safe, efficient, affordable, reliable and convenient movement of people and goods through communications, transportation planning and the design, operation and maintenance of transportation facilities. Yang, Interim City Traffic Engineer and Parking Manager Yang, Assistant City Traffic Engineer Keith, Transportation Operations Analyst Meagan Hatfield, Program Assistant Patrick McGuigan, Program Assistant Brian J., Traffic Engineer Mark, Traffic Engineer , Traffic Engineer Tom Mohr, Traffic Engineer Gretchen Aviles Pineiro, Engineer Jerry Schippa, Engineer Jeremy Nash, Engineer Sean Malloy, Engineer Eric Halvorson, Comp Map/GIS Coordinator Mike Duhr, Engineering Program Specialist Scott Kerr, Civil Technician

2 Cory Stoughtenger, Engineering Program Specialist Chuck Yang, Engineering Program Specialist Eric Poffenberger, Engineering Program Specialist Rebecca Qureishi, Civil Technician Timothy Stella, Civil Technician , Pedestrian-Bicycle Coordinator , Pedestrian-Bicycle Safety Assistant John Rider, Bicycle Registration Coordinator (55%)

3 Administration Contacts Administration of Federal, State and Local Transportation aid programs Administration, management and budgeting of the Division and field operations Billing information for TE and Parking / Budget Communications, coordination of intergovernmental systems Highway Safety Coordinator Highway safety grants / Intergovernmental transportation projects/programs Inventory coordination, department Hatfield/Tolley Legislation, analysis of pending legislation and coordination of department responses Ordinance drafting for parking/traffic regulations /Putnam / Pedestrian/Bicycle/Motor Vehicle Commission: Agenda, minutes, meeting schedule Hatfield Pedestrian/Bicycle/Motor Vehicle Commission, Coordination and Liaison with Transportation Agency / Personnel records, payroll information McGuigan/Hart Policy planning and objectives for Traffic Engineering / Policy regarding traffic, parking and transit issues Purchase requisitions and purchase orders: Authorization (Traffic Engineering and Parking) /Tolley/ Processing, filing - Office Hatfield/ Processing, filing - Shop Dennis Rowe ( ) Radio communications service programs Scheib/ Safety and public information program Schedule of charges State Highway Safety grant projects, accounting / Taxi oversight and inspections Telecommunications planning and operations Scheib/ Transit and Parking Commission: Agenda, minutes, meeting schedule McGuigan/Hatfield Work assignments and priority scheduling Work orders for items such as pavement markings, sign installations, etc. / Operations Contacts Crash investigations and countermeasures / Crash investigations, pedestrian-bicycle / Crash reports (requests) /Stoughtenger Authorization for installation of traffic control devices (bus stop, yield, stop and parking signs; traffic signals; etc.) Banners (Contact City Planning) Barricades for residential street construction (street ends) Barricades, signs, cones for special events and street closings /Mohr Bicycle facilities and programs, planning, design and monitoring / Bicycle map requests (quantity) Rider/ Bicycle registration/licensing info. /Rider Bicycle route inquiries Bikeway maintenance complaints/requests Bus stop location complaints Metro Crash Report Crossing Guards Aviles-Pineiro/Madison Police Dept.

4 Crosswalks / Curb marking (yellow), requests / Data, questions regarding field data collection Halvorson/Yang Detours, street openings and street closing - coordination of traffic operations and liaison with contractors //Duhr/ Drafting and engineering support Halvorson Enforcement, coordination of traffic law enforcement requests Handicapped parking Putnam Highway Safety Coordinator House moving permits // Intercity transit routes, operation and complaints Intersection traffic control studies - (stop/yield signs) Inventory, sign Halvorson/ Loading zones Putnam / Maps/drawings Halvorson/Yang/Stoughtenger/Poffenberger Neighborhood traffic operation studies Mohr// Oversize load permits / Painting, corner restrictions Parade permit: Initial contact Police Department inquiries /Mohr Pavement arrows Pavement markings, crosswalk painting, etc. Pedestrian-bicycle crash investigation / Pedestrian-bicycle safety needs and program planning Permits: House moving, oversize load and overwidth/overheight / Permits for State Street mall vehicle use Reception/ Planning, traffic operations studies for neighborhoods Railroad crossing protection // Requests for base maps, sign inventory, condition diagrams, sketches/drawings Halvorson/Stoughtenger/Poffenberger/Yang Safety and public information program / Safety program, pedestrian/bicycles School crossing safety, crossing guards, etc. Aviles-Pineiro/ Sight distance obstructions Signing and marking studies in response to complaints regarding speed limits, sight distance obstructions and traffic conflicts // Signing, overhead lane control Signs (Street name, dead end, no parking, 2 hr. parking, etc.) Signs, pedestrian/children/playgrounds / Special Events /Mohr Speed Board / Speed zone change requests (complaints re: speeding should be referred to Police, ) Speeding Hotline (Police) State Street mall vehicle use permits Reception/ Stop/yield sign studies Street occupancy Kerr Street openings/excavation (closings or occupancy) for utility work / within the right-of-way (Initial contact should be made to City Engineering, ) Street use permits (block parties) ( Initial applications from City Clerk) Mohr/ Taxicabs Traffic count information as recorded yearly Receptionists Traffic operations for Public Works contracts Traffic regulation information

5 Traffic studies, general Truck route information Halvorson/ Planning and Design Contacts Access control information Halvorson/ Curb cuts, commercial Halvorson Dane County Transportation Study/City-related studies / Driveway and parking facility permits, commercial Poffenberger/Stoughtenger/Halvorson/ Environmental review / Geometric Design - street improvements and intersection Median break policy / Neighborhood Traffic Management (NTM) Mohr/ Noise barrier/highway noise Halvorson//Yang Parking lots and driveways - physical design Poffenberger/Stoughtenger/Halvorson/ Plan Commission Review (Certified survey, conditional use, planned residential or commercial development, preliminary and final plats, rezonings, street vacations and commercial industrial site traffic planning) Planning of intersection and major street improvements / Planning, transportation (metropolitan and neighborhood) / Rail, passenger service (stations, stops, routes) Metro/ Railroad studies (corridor use and reuse, etc.) / Street projects, major street improvements Traffic calming (initial contact, status on list) Mohr/ Traffic calming (project status) Mohr/ Traffic count, information about the program and flow maps Yang/Halvorson Transportation Demand Management (TDM) program Transportation Planning (intermodal area and suburban areas, coordination with other governmental units and within the City) / Transportation System Management (TSM) programs / Transportation-traffic/parking/transit coordination Signal and Street Lighting Contacts Budget for street light, traffic signal, & special projects / Electrical design and specification Parking lot lighting review City Plan & Development Street lighting assessments Street lighting design and requests (major street lighting, bike path lighting, residential streets, recreational and athletic field lighting and lighting for reconstructed streets) Street lighting intergovernmental-interagency agreements / Street lighting, new plats (assessment information, including questions on cost and installation schedule) Traffic signal design and operations Traffic signal intergovernmental-interagency agreements / Traffic signal operation, signal timing, progression, etc. Utility rate studies for electrical services