Californian smart mobility company Iteris has won a three-year $6.9m contract to service two operations centres in San Francisco that support traveller information dissemination and express lanes corridor management.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) awarded Iteris the contract, which includes an option to extend for an additional four years.

Iteris will provide staffing and management services to the 511 operations centre in Oakland, California, that is responsible for collecting, curating and disseminating traffic and transit information for the nine-county Bay Area region. The staff disseminate transportation information through the 511 SF Bay traveller information system, of which the 511 phone system and transit data system have been managed by Iteris since 2015.

In addition, Iteris will also provide staffing and management services to a regional operations centre in San Francisco to monitor traffic and toll collection along the MTC-operated express lanes, and help increase mobility through congestion management and coordinated incident response.

“MTC is committed to using technology to make the San Francisco Bay Area transportation network safer, more efficient and easier to navigate for our region’s travellers,” said Andrew Fremier, deputy executive director at MTC. “We look forward to continue working with Iteris to ensure that San Francisco Bay Area travellers and public transit riders, as well as emergency responders, have accurate, real-time travel information around the clock via the 511 SF Bay traveller information system.”

Iteris provides multimodal traveller information services for 11 state and regional transportation agencies across the USA as part of its ClearMobility platform, supporting over 63 million combined interactions and 7.1 million individual interactive voice response phone calls in the past year alone.

“Iteris is proud that MTC has relied on Iteris to deliver key services of the San Francisco Bay Area’s 511 traveller information system since 2015, and we are excited to expand our role to include staffing and management services for two critical operations centres in the region,” said Ramin Massoumi, senior vice president at Iteris. “We are committed to ensuring that the San Francisco Bay Area’s travellers and public transit riders, as well as emergency responders, have access to accurate, real-time travel information to improve safety and efficiency throughout the region.”

The ClearMobility platform can continuously monitor, visualise and optimise mobility infrastructure. It applies cloud computing, artificial intelligence, sensors, advisory services and managed services.

Iteris specialises in smart mobility infrastructure management by applying cloud computing, artificial intelligence, sensors, advisory services and managed services to achieve safe, efficient and sustainable mobility.