Ontario. Traffic and Transportation Planning Studies Office

• Traffic and Transportation Planning Studies Office

• Ontario. Traffic and Transportation Planning Office

The Traffic and Transportation Planning Studies Office was established in 1962 as the Traffic Section, within the Ontario Department of Highways. The office was headed by a Traffic Engineer and formed part of the Planning and Design Branch. The name was changed to the Traffic and Planning Studies Office in 1966. By the end of the 1960s, however, the office assumed a more comprehensive approach with respect to planning studies for other modes of transportation, such as public transit. As a result, the name of the office was changed in 1970 to the Traffic and Transportation Planning Office.

In early 1971, the traffic management responsibilities of the office were given over to a new Traffic Control Office (later named the Traffic Program Management Office). Later on in that year, however, the Ontario Department of Highways was merged with the Ontario Department of Transport to form the Ontario Department of Transportation and Communications. With this change, the Traffic and Transportation Planning Office was dissolved; its functions being continued by several new sections within the Planning Division of the Ontario Department of Transportation and Communications, including the Systems Planning Branch.

The Traffic and Planning Studies Office, within the Planning Branch of the Ontario Department of Highways, was responsible for conducting regional, urban and specific area transportation planning studies as well as studies related to traffic surveys, traffic control devices and highway safety. By the end of the 1960s the office also assumed responsibility for planning studies pertaining to other modes of transportation.

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

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

Department of Highways Annual Reports, 1962-1972; Canadiana name authorities, 1996-12-24.

Archivist(s):
Lisa Singer, Mark Epp