Santa Clara County residents and businesses have made significant investments in its transportation infrastructure. The Transportation Systems Monitoring Program (TSMP) was initiated by VTA’s Technical Advisory Committee and approved by the Board of Directors in 2008 as a means of monitoring the conditions and performance of selected transportation system networks and assets. The TSMP and annual reports were developed in response to concerns raised by local jurisdictions on the ability and resources needed to maintain the County’s transportation infrastructure to acceptable standards.
- Enable the County and external stakeholders to better understand the performance of the County's tansportation system and effectiveness of the investments.
- Commincate progress towards stated transporation system goals and objectives.
- Provide additional context for future funding and policy decisions.
The TSMP follows the asset management principles of Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (2015) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (2021), the federal reauthorization transportation funding programs that emphasizes performance-based management of transportation infrastructure assets at the state and local levels, as well as California’s Transportation Asset Management Plan and California Senate Bill 1 (SB1) that establishes performance targets for California Transportation Commission State Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP)
- Local Street Pavement Conditions
- Freeway Litter and Graffiti Maintenance
- Roadway Safety (Collisions) Conditions
- Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure (New)
- Clean Energy Station Inventory
The report also includes overlay mapping of Equity Priority Communities.
The 2024 Transportation Systems Monitoring Report is the 14th edition since the first report was released in 2010. Since then, the reports have expanded to include new data as it became available:
2010 (1st edition) - Introduced basic performance measures for consideration
2011 (2nd edition) - Introduced monitoring of litter and landscape conditions on the highways.
2013 (3rd edition) - Featured an inventory of traffic signal systems and introduced monitoring of express lanes.
2014 (4th edition) - Featured a new dashboard report format, key performance measures table, pavement, bridge, and litter and landscape monitoring sections, new safety section and revised air quality section.
2015 (5th edition) - Featured an expanded litter and landscape section.
2016 (6th edition) - Added ramp metering inventory and featured green bike lanes materials and applications.
2017 (7th edition) - Added a section to track the most frequently reported problems from local jurisdictions.
2018 (8th edition) - Added Commute and Time Spent in Congestion section to track performance of major corridors in the County, and new performance metrics for monitoring litter and graffiti along the highways.
2019 (9th edition) - Reformatted to a more data driven report with graphic information representation over text. The report was also condensed to focus on areas of importance to communities: 1) Pavement, 2) Freeway Litter Landscape, and Graffiti Maintenance, and 3) Roadway Safety (Collisions).
2020 (10th edition) - Added a new section on COVID-19 Impacts observations from the pandemic shelter-in place order, and another section on bicycle infrastructure.
2021 (11th edition) - Includes additional data collected on COVID-19 Impacts observations and bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.
2022 (12th edition) - Added new sections on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Glossary, and Acronyms.
2023 (13th edition) – Added a new section on Clean Energy.
2024 (14th edition) – Added a new section on Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure and transition to online report format.
About the Data
The information presented in the TSMP Reports leverages data extracted from a variety of transportation reference and from local, state, regional and federal agencies, as well as non-profit organizations like the joint Venture silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies who prodcues the annual Silicon Valley Index Reports. In addition, a self-assessment survey was used to gain insight from local agencies on their ability to maintain roadside assets within their jurisdictions. The performance measures and sources used for this report are listed in the Notes Section.
Acronyms
TSMP: Transportation Systems Monitoring Program
SHOPP: Caltrans' State Highway Operation and Protection Program