The Agency's adopted budget includes $25,000 for regional traffic counts in fiscal years 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19,  for a total 3-year budget of $75,000. 

The last round of three-year traffic counts contract was $71,000, and included counts at 170 locations.

The Transportation Agency’s regional traffic counts program measures traffic volumes on regional roadways. The Agency's primary goal for collecting new regional traffic counts is to provide fresh data for the Association of Monterey Bay Area Government’s (AMBAG) regional travel demand model. Count locations are on the county’s regional road network, in addition to locations requested by Caltrans as part of its Highway Performance Monitoring System. Two-day, 24-hour vehicle tube count data is collected twice a year, once in April (off-peak) and again in August (peak). There are currently 170 traffic counts locations that are included as an attachment, and may also be found online at:

http://www.tamcmonterey.org/programs/traffic-counts/

The goal of this Request for Proposals is to continue to collect traffic count data required for AMBAG's travel demand model, while better coordinating the traffic counts program with local jurisdictions that are looking to include additional count locations or are doing counts of their own. The Transportation Agency is also looking to incorporate new traffic counts technology, such as bluetooth traffic data collection and video camera counts, in the next contract. 

This RFP is expected to be released in December, with the goal of having a consultant on-board by February 2017.