110494 | Regional Traffic Management Center (RTMC) General Contract (Upper Merion Township)

Regional Traffic Management Center (RTMC) planning, designing and building/commissioning of a facility to optimize the performance of the surface transportation network by expanding the current function of the freeway management systems to include active traffic management of dynamic junction control, flex lanes, and, part time shoulder use, ramp metering, multimodal coordination, and proactive management of traffic signals along major regional arterial corridors. In addition the RTMC will collect and process/disseminate real time transportation data in order to measure performance. This facility will be the technical and institutional hub to bring together the various regional jurisdictions, modal interests, and service providers to focus on the common goal of optimizing the performance of the transportation network.
The total cost estimate for this project is $59,952,000. However, FHWA has indicated that federal funds are eligible on the RTMC but not for the parking structure as it will not be open to the public. As a result of this decision, PennDOT will be using $48,152,000 for the RTMC and $11,800,000 of Department of General Services (DGS) state funding for the parking structure.