UNIT.

5 (TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATION)
Functional responsibilities:
1) Responsible for the steering of traffic management based on the traffic policy.
2) Responsible for regulations, as an enabler of wide-scale implementations. This means regulating the roles and responsibilities of different
operators, the reasonable pricing of the administrative sectors services and the speedy preparation of temporary legislation and decrees required
by wide-scale pilot programmes.
3) Formulates public sector strategies for intelligent transport and steers operations in such a manner as to enable the utilisation of all transport
system development solutions, including traffic management means.
4) Responsible for the prerequisites of intelligent transport, i.e. the acquisition and allocation of government funding in accordance with national
strategies and any opportunities for success which arise. This means sufficient resourcing and the selection of investment targets, especially large
development projects and programmes.
5) Carries out goal-oriented co-operation with different administrative branches in Finland (Ministries of the Interior, the Environment, Finance,
Employment and the Economy, Education and Culture, and Social Affairs and Health) leading to concrete actions. The goal is to implement
major intelligent transport applications in Finland by eliminating legislative and organisational obstacles.
6) Carries out active and goal-oriented co-operation on the international level, with the particular goal of generating new markets and opening
them up to Finnish operators.
*To provide the basic information infrastructure (status data of the transport system) for services and the service business, including a quality
description. This means making the agencys own databases and data warehouses available free of charge to service chain operators over
nationally agreed interfaces. The basic information infrastructure covers all modes of transport.
3) To fund R&D in the field based on sufficient investment, while bearing responsibility for traffic research and development operations in the
field of intelligent transport with respect to areas unfunded by other research funding sources. For its part, the Agency must create and administer
major intelligent transport development projects and programmes in co-operation with other
participating countries and operators.
4) To monitor and develop the functionality of traffic services and road management markets, bear the main responsibility for R&D and knowhow development related to the field in question, issue standards and permits related to traffic and traffic facilities, participate in the preparation
of the related decrees and act as Finlands representative with respect to the EU and other international co-operation, in accordance with the
strategies of the Ministry of Transport and Communication.
5) Overall responsibility for the co-ordination of road traffic incident management planning. The entire incident management chain is most
effectively operated when there is a clear division of responsibilities. With regard to the safety and smooth operation of the entire transport
system, the main responsibility must be borne by a party capable of monitoring the status of the traffic network
surrounding the entire incident in real time, and able to intervene if necessary.
1) traffic management and the traffic management infrastructure in their areas, in accordance with the agreed strategies, directives and goals
2) traffic management as part of transport system planning and project-level planning
3) acquisition, upkeep and maintenance of roadside equipment and systems, and of those services which are the responsibility of the units
4) co-operation between traffic management authorities and traffic centres in their areas and major metropolitan areas.

UMTA:
Urban Metropolitan Transport Authority
According to the recommendations of the Working Group on Urban Transport in the 12th five year plan, UMTA:
UMTA should be an executive body governed by a Board made up of heads of various departments in the city, local elected leaders and
eminent citizens. It should be supported by a team of professionals with a Chief Executive.
UMTA should be based in the city and should report to the Metropolitan Planning Committee (MPC)/ District Planning Committee (DPC) as
envisaged under the 74th Constitution Amendment Act (CAA). Until the MPC/DPC is constituted, UMTA should report to the relevant
department at the State Headquarters.
UMTA should be empowered to set up SPVs for various components of Urban Transport.
UMTA should undertake the following functions:
Policy Functions: such as formulation of policies, strategies and financing for the city urban transport systems.
Regulatory Functions: to ensure co-ordination of various available modes of public transport to ensure seamless travel.
Integrated and holistic planning: such as comprehensive, integrated transport planning of all components of Urban Transport on a city wide/
Urban Agglomeration (UA) basis for implementation including integrated land use. Transport planning with inputs from urban Development
Authority. This will include planning for an integrated, multimodal public transport system, MRTS, planning of bus routes, terminals, interchange
points, intermediate public transport, Non Motorised Transport (NMT) and transport demand management. It will also plan goods movement in
the city.

 Planning of road network and associated infrastructure in conjunction with planning of city wide public transport system. Infrastructure includes
roads and associated facilities such as road furniture, traffic signals, road intersections, flyovers, grade separators, bridges, bye-passes, and
facilities for inter modal transfer and parking.
Organising and co-ordinating services that is franchising/ route allocation, contract monitoring, co-ordination of services, ensuring supply of
services to meet demand, provisioning of new supplies, monitoring the work assigned to the implementing agencies. All service providers
including Rail Transit and BRTS will be monitored by UMTA (however, construction, operation and
maintenance of various MRTS, bus services and other infrastructure will continue through existing city agencies.)
Common services such as resolution of day-to-day matters, dispute resolution, Public Relations (PR), security services, management of revenue
sharing arrangements. Provision and management of common facilities i.e. depots, terminals, and Passenger Information System (PIS), integrated
ticketing, data management, management of multimodal interchanges, last mile connectivity, planning movements around MRT stations, coordination with other agencies and planning for future extension.
Traffic Engineering and Management.
Capacity building to upgrade the skills of the city officials.
Traffic records:
A records management system must comply with state and Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) record-keeping rules, and
provide for record storage in easily accessible locations. Both paper records and electronic records are equally subject to public record laws and
the retention rules provided by these guidelines.
WSDOTs Record Management Guidelines
A. Originals and Copies The office that creates the original document is responsible for the maintenance, retention, and destruction of the
document, except:
When an original document is sent to another office/division/region within WSDOT, the office receiving that original assumes the
responsibility for the maintenance, retention, and destruction of the document.
When an original document is sent outside WSDOT, the copy made for the WSDOT senders file becomes the original and must be
maintained accordingly.
When the content of a copy is changed, the resultant copy becomes a new original and must be maintained accordingly. However, a
copy that has not been changed is not subject to a retention schedule.
B. Two Types of Retention Schedules
1. The Washington Secretary of States general records retention schedule covers records that represent the operations of all state agencies.
2. The WSDOT unique retention schedule covers records created specifically for WSDOT. This schedule is managed by the departments
Records and Information Services Office.
C. Paper Record Destruction Shred paper records having confidential and/or sensitive information. The Records Destruction Log (WSDOT
Form 720-025) must be completed and signed by the Records and Information Services Office prior to destruction.
Paper records not having confidential and/or sensitive information may be recycled.