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To maximize safety, reliability, and accurate navigation of the highway system for all its users through a variety of proven and innovative traffic engineering methods and traffic control devices implemented with integrity and professionalism.
The overarching principle is to make lives better through transportation.
The Traffic Engineering Division is responsible for all highway infrastructure that assists drivers in safely and efficiently navigating the state's roads.
The Traffic Engineering Division has four primary functions:
The Traffic Field Operations section has statewide responsibilities for conducting field maintenance and coordinating contract work relating to traffic signals, roadway lighting, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), pavement markings, and signs.
The Safety, Traffic Operations, & Data Coordination section has statewide responsibilities for integrating safety and efficiency into all DOH traffic operations. WVDOT is committed to achieving WVDOT's goal of zero highway fatalities by 2050.
Regional Traffic Engineering operations are organized into two regions that encompass the state's ten districts: North (Districts 4-8) and South (Districts 1-3 and 9-10).
The Traffic Field Operations unit manages the operation and maintenance of physical traffic control devices across the state highway system. This includes monitoring and maintaining approximately 1,300 traffic signals and systems, as well as approximately 60,000 highway lights statewide.
Traffic Signals
Monitoring and maintaining approximately 1,300 traffic signals statewide
Roadway Lighting
Maintaining approximately 60,000 highway lights statewide
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
Maintenance of more than 200 ITS field devices
Sign Manufacturing
The Central Sign Shop manufactures and delivers over 40,000 signs annually
Sign Maintenance
LOGOS
Advertising Application Info
Roadside Memorial Sign Program
Allows family members to request an official state-installed sign near the site of a fatal vehicle crash to honor a lost loved one
Manages the statewide pavement marking program, including planning and delivery of annual traffic striping and markings projects.
The Safety, Traffic Operations, & Data Coordination section leads the state's strategic highway safety planning and manages real-time traffic data and information systems. This section is responsible for developing and implementing the Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) to achieve the goal of zero highway fatalities by 2050, and manages the data-driven Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP). This unit manages safety data sources, including the State Crash Records Database and the WV Fatality Analytic Reporting System (FARS), and oversees the statewide Traffic Monitoring Count Program. This unit oversees the Transportation Management Center (TMC) and the State's 511 Traveler Information System. This unit also coordinates highway safety improvement efforts with statewide partners through the West Virginia Highway Safety Management Task Force, and develops and coordinates statewide Traffic Incident Management Planning and Training.
Coordinating highway safety improvement efforts with statewide partners
The Regional Traffic Engineering unit provides technical expertise, design standards, regulatory oversight, and administrative support for the division. This unit prepares plans, specifications, and estimates for projects involving traffic signs, signals, pavement markings, and lighting. The unit reviews and approves all consultant-developed plans, including Traffic Signal, ITS, and Work Zone Traffic Control plans and administers the scope, review, and approval of all development-related Traffic Impact Studies and conducts traffic operations studies, including providing speed zoning recommendations. Additionally, this unit is responsible for the regulatory functions of Outdoor Advertising and Salvage Yards (OA/SY), enforcing statutes, issuing licenses, and regulating salvage yards. Finally, this unit contains its own district administrative functions, including human resources, budget development, procurement, and training activities.
Districts 4-8
Districts 1-3 and 9-10
Contact your local WVDOT district office or email Traffic.Engineering@wv.gov
Charleston, WV
The West Virginia Transportation Management Center operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, monitoring traffic conditions and coordinating incident response across the state's highway system.
Core Functions:
Wheeling, WV
The TMC manages West Virginia's 511 Traveler Information System, providing real-time traffic and road condition information to the public.
The TMC manages West Virginia's ITS infrastructure including:
Get real-time traffic information by dialing 511 or visiting wv511.org
Traffic Engineering Directives (TEDs)
Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Plan
West Virginia 511 Traveler Information
Crash Data Information
Traffic Monitoring
1900 Kanawha Blvd E
Building 5
Charleston, WV 25305
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