Ontario. Dept. of Highways. Planning Branch (1954-1955)

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Dept. of Highways. Planning Branch (1954-1955)

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    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Planning Branch

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      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1954-1955

      History

      The Planning Branch was formed from the Engineering Services Division of the former Surveys Branch, with the addition of a new statistics unit.

      The Branch was made up of the following units: Location Surveys Section, Contract Checking Section, Cartography (responsible for mapping and displays), Traffic Section, and the Statistics and Economics Section.

      Another reorganization in the Department in 1955 resulted in the Planning Branch being merged with the Bridges Branch to form the Planning and Design Branch.

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      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Planning Branch was primarily responsible for surveying land to determine the routes of new or upgraded highways, measuring and analyzing traffic volumes on highways, and analyzing accident statistics to determine road effects.

      The Branch was also responsible for designing and producing maps at various scales of the highways network, gathering and analyzing transportation statistics for planning purposes, and contract checking to assess building estimates.

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      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Dept. of Highways (1931-1971)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA47

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Dept. of Highways controls Ontario. Dept. of Highways. Planning Branch (1954-1955)

      Dates of relationship

      1954-1955

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Dept. of Highways. Planning and Design Branch (1955-1963)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA1117

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Dept. of Highways. Planning and Design Branch is the successor of Ontario. Dept. of Highways. Planning Branch (1954-1955)

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Dept. of Highways. Surveys Branch (1930-1954)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA2121

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Dept. of Highways. Surveys Branch is the predecessor of Ontario. Dept. of Highways. Planning Branch (1954-1955)

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      Description of relationship

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      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA2122

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

      Status

      Approved

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          Annual Reports of the Department of Highways (1953-1955)

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          Walz