Baltimore Metropolitan Council
Traffic Signal Subcommittee
The Traffic Signal Subcommittee is a forum of the region’s traffic signal engineers, managers, and technicians to discuss issues of common concern and to identify and undertake projects that improve the operation and coordination of the region’s traffic signals.
LEARN MOREResilience 2050: Adapting to the Challenges of Tomorrow for more information
The Baltimore Regional Transportation Board (BRTB) has launched the planning process for Resilience 2050: Adapting to the Challenges of Tomorrow, the next long-range transportation plan (LRTP) for the Baltimore region.
The Baltimore region and our transportation system face a variety of both short- and long-term challenges. Responding to and overcoming issues such as a global pandemic, climate change, and cyber threats is vitally important. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how quickly challenges can arise that the region must respond to.
In light of these challenges, the BRTB selected the theme of resilience and adapting to the challenges of a changing tomorrow for this plan. The ability of our region to be resilient is necessary for the ongoing and effective performance of our transportation system, our environment, our economy, and our livelihoods.
LEARN MORESafety
Historically, a major tenet of traffic safety has been that a reduction in exposure would lead to a reduction in serious injuries and deaths. As the number of vehicles traveling the roadways decreased, safety would increase. However, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated safer-at-home guidelines, the opposite came to be the reality. As fewer vehicles were using the transportation network, crashes decreased but injury severities increased. While Maryland, the mid-Atlantic, and across the country, crashes were not as common, the dangerous behaviors and significant forces in those crashes led to more fatalities and serious injuries. Moving forward, the BRTB and BMC are working closely with local, state, regional, and national partners to reverse this trend while maintaining a focus on improving the network. Those efforts include congestion management, with these lessons in mind, asset preservation, mobility, accessibility, and plans for resiliency.
Congestion Management Process
A Congestion Management Process (CMP) is a systematic approach to address congestion in order to reduce its impacts on the movement of people and goods. The overall goal of the CMP is to take a broad approach to reduce excessive recurring and non-recurring congestion, use existing system capacity as efficiently as possible, increase system reliability, and always seek to improve safety. Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) strategies are important tools in developing a CMP. BMC/BRTB work on a variety of CMP projects/programs.
CMP projects/programs