Common use of Transportation Data Clause in Contracts

Transportation Data. The Office of Transportation Data’s (OTD) mission is to produce and provide quality transportation data and information to better serve the Department and our customers. This office is the Georgia Department of Transportation's principal source for highway and traffic data. The office gathers data directly through automated means and indirectly through field personnel or other government entities in the areas of Highway Infrastructure and Highway Usage. Road inventory collection of all public highways contributes to the Department’s Official written mileage record, Geographic Information System (GIS), and Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS). These systems support federal, statewide, and regional transportation planning, analysis, modeling and reporting. In addition, OTD collects a video log of the state highway system and the centerline of the public highway system. OTD also produces the Official Highway and Transportation map, County map and specialty maps for internal customers. The Office of Transportation Data also maintains comprehensive paper and electronic records defining highway systems, routes, and boundaries to include the Highway Functional Classification System, National Highway System, State Highway System, National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, Limited Access Highway System, U.S. Route Numbered Systems and Urban Area Boundaries. Maintaining accurate records requires extensive coordination with a wide range of state government departments, federal agencies and local governments. Classification of roads plays a major role in establishing maintenance responsibility, liability, and funding eligibility for many of these governmental agencies. OTD collects traffic data using traffic counters at permanent and temporary traffic count stations throughout the state of Georgia. These data are used to determine actual and estimated Georgia’s traffic statistics like AADT (Annual Average Daily Traffic), truck percentage, traffic adjustment factors and Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT). OTD also maintains the official list of all portions or features of the State Highway System that have been named by an Act or Resolution by the State Transportation Board or the General Assembly.