Title
Traffic Data Collection and Processing Services
Action
Action:
Approve a contract for up to $475,000 over five years with Quality Counts, LLC for traffic data collection and processing services.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Liz Babson, Transportation
Ashley Landis, Transportation
Keith Bryant, Transportation
Explanation
§ The City seeks to make data-driven decisions to best serve the mobility needs of the public in a rapidly growing and changing City.
§ Data collection is important to inform engineering and planning decisions, collect and assess traffic safety data, track changes over time, rank priorities, and assess project success.
§ Accurate counts at intersections (turning movement counts) and mid-block locations are also critical because this data is shared with the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) and the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO).
§ Accurate and recent traffic data collection is critical to the CRTPO and the MPO organizations for the following reasons:
‒ Validating the region’s travel demand model, the tool used for local and regional transportation planning and air quality conformity,
‒ Implementing federal and state transportation planning requirements, and
‒ Aiding CRTPO in the monitoring of performance measures as federally mandated by the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act.
§ Other necessary uses of this data collection include:
‒ Providing average annual daily traffic data used to design Community Investment Plan projects,
‒ Providing data to assist the City when responding to residents’ requests such as traffic calming measures, and
‒ Analyzing motor vehicle, pedestrian, and bicycle count data in conjunction with crash statistics to support the City’s Vision Zero initiative.
§ On October 4, 2017, the City issued a Request for Proposals (RFP); three proposals were received.
§ Quality Counts, LLC best meets the City’s needs in terms of qualifications, experience, cost, and responsiveness to the RFP requirements.
§ The estimated contract expenditure is $95,000 per year over a five-year term.
Charlotte Business INClusion
No subcontracting goals were established because there are no subcontracting opportunities (Part C: Section 2.1(a) of the Charlotte Business INClusion Policy).
Fiscal Note
Funding: General Community Investment Plan