FY 2016 Appropriation
Funding History
Appropriation Overview

During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $9,632,100 from all sources for Traffic Operations Center. This is a 2 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources.

The Traffic Operations Center is a part of the Traffic Management Division. The Traffic Management Division is responsible for planning, designing, installing, operating, and maintaining advanced Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies to improve transportation mobility, safety, economic prosperity and customer satisfaction. Specific responsibilities include managing freeway traffic operations, collecting and disseminating traveler information, traffic signal operations, ramp metering, the Express Lanes program, weather forecasting, congestion measurement and reporting, and ITS device deployment and maintenance.

Intent Language

HB0003: Item 33

Under terms of Section 63J-1-603(3)(a) Utah Code Annotated, the Legislature intends that appropriations provided for Operations in Item 2 of Chapter 4, Laws of Utah 2014 shall not lapse at the close of Fiscal Year 2015. The use of any non-lapsing funds is limited to the following: Highway Maintenance ($2,000,000).


SB0002: Item 24

The Legislature intends that the Department of Transportation use maintenance funds previously used on state highways that now qualify for Transportation Investment Funds of 2005 to address maintenance and preservation issues on other state highways.


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COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.