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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO STAFF REPORT APPROVED AND FORWARDED TO CITY COUNCIL TO: John Jermanis, City Manager DATE: November 6, 2006 FROM: Uchenna Udemezue, Director Engineering and Transportati n Department BY: Keith R. Cooke, Principal E ~nee>>4))j...... y SUBJECT PROJECT/PROJECT DESCRI~1:f/7-r RESOLUTION APPROVING AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA INTERIM CENTER-TO- CENTER PROGRAM SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION The City of San Leandro participates in the East Bay Smart Corridors Program. The East Bay Smart Corridors Program exchanges real-time traffic data and video images among its participants. The Interim Center-to-Center Program ("Program") will make this information available to all Bay Area Smart Corridors participants and the Regional Transportation Management Center, where Caltrans, the California Highway Patrol, and TravInfo@ staff are co- located. This Program is expected to continue for several years, until replaced by a more comprehensive system with multimodal and/or statewide capabilities. It is recommended that the City Council adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute Amendment No. 1 to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOD) for the San Francisco Bay Area Interim Center-to-Center Program, including Attachment 1: Policy for the Exchange of Real- Time Traffic Data and Real-Time Video. BACKGROUND The City of San Leandro has participated in the East Bay Smart Corridors Program since 2001. Smart Corridors is a cooperative effort by the Congestion Management Agency (CMA) and twenty-four other local government agencies to plan and implement a multi-modal advanced transportation management system in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. The goal of Smart Corridors is for participating agencies to better manage congestion and incidents along regional routes, to improve transportation mobility, efficiency, and safety, and provide timely and multi- modal transportation information to agency transportation managers and to the public. The Interim Center-to-Center Program seeks to improve the performance of transportation systems by promoting efficient use of existing highway and transit systems and reducing environmental costs to the public. The application of current and evolving technologies to transportation systems and careful integration of these functions provide more effective solutions to multi-modal and regional transportation requirements. The development and successful