Metropolitan Transportation Commission (San Francisco Bay Area)

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is a regional planning, financing, and funding government agency in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was created in 1970 to coordinate the transit systems in the area's nine counties. For the purpose of state funding, MTC is the Bay Area's regional transportation planning agency (RTPA) as well as being the region's metropolitan planning organization (MPO), which receives and distributes federal funding per ISTEA. The commission is not, however, the Bay Area's council of governments (COG), which holds special influence on regional land use by distributing to local governments State of California-produced housing needs numbers; the Association of Bay Area Governments holds this role.

Since 1999, MTC has worked to implement a regional transit fare-collection system called Clipper (formally Translink), for which transit riders use a single card to pay fares on differently-priced transit systems.

MTC is also responsible for oversight of regional bridge toll revenue through the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA). MTC also runs regional operational programs, including the Freeway Service Patrol (FSP), call box, 511 (Transit), rideshare, Fastrak electronic toll collection, regional pavement management (including the pavement management system software StreetSaver), arterial operations, and regional signal timing programs.

MTC also has a library^[1] which jointly supports both MTC and the Association of Bay Area Governments. The library is open to the public and its collection covers regional transportation and planning issues for the Bay Area.

See also

San Francisco Bay Area portal

• BART or Bay Area Rapid Transit
• AC Transit or Alameda-Contra Costa Transit
• San Francisco Municipal Railway or Muni: operates cable car system
• CalTrain: regional rail
• Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority or VTA
• Golden Gate Transit: also operates ferry service
• SamTrans
• 511 (Transit)
• Clipper

References

1. ^ http://www.mtc.ca.gov/library/

External links

• MTC Info
• MTC-ABAG Library
• BART
• MUNI
• VTA
• AC Transit
• CalTrain
• Clipper Home Page
• Golden Gate Transit
• Bay Area Toll Authority
• Bay Area FasTrak
• Bay Area Freeway Service Patrol
• Bay Area 511
• SmartCommute.net
• MTC Pavement Management Program
• California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 4
• Metropolitan Transportation Commission
• Considerations Regarding the Possible Merger of the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission Reform (Public Policy Institute of California)