The East Bay SMART Corridors program is a cooperative effort by twenty-five local, regional and federal agencies to plan and implement a multi-modal advanced transportation management system along the San Pablo Avenue (I-80) corridor and the I-880 corridor, which includes International Boulevard, East 14th Street, San Leandro Boulevard/Street, Hesperian Boulevard, and Union City Boulevard. The project is sponsored and managed by the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency (CMA). The SMART Corridors program has evolved into a multi-year, multi-phase program that began through cooperative efforts of the local agencies along the San Pablo Avenue and I-880 corridors. Since 1995, there have been a number of major efforts to implement various infrastructure improvements in the corridors and to strengthen the interagency coordination and cooperation. The goals of the East Bay SMART Corridors program are to: allow the participating agencies to better manage congestion and incidents along regional routes; to improve transportation mobility, efficiency and safety; and to provide timely, multi-modal transportation information to agency transportation managers and to the public. The East Bay SMART Corridors program has successfully brought together a group of local, regional, federal, transit, and emergency service agencies together to work cooperatively to solve regional transportation management issues at many levels. The program has been able to address the needs of small and large agencies, as well as other interests in the East Bay, such as transit agencies and emergency service providers. The current total program costs, including planning, design, construction and integration, is over $13 million. The project is currently under construction, and full system implementation is expected to be completed by June 2003. An additional $1.5 million has been programmed for ongoing operations and management of the program, after the project completion.
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