Identity area
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Transportation Operations Branch
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The Transportation Operations Branch was created in 1990 under the newly created Quality and Standards Division, assuming many of the functions of the former Highway Operations and Maintenance Division. The branch was renamed the Construction and Operations Branch during the 1994-1995 fiscal year and underwent changes in organization and areas of responsibility.
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The Transportation Operations Branch was responsible for the development of operational policies, procedures, service criteria and standards for the operation and maintenance of transportation services, infrastructure and related facilities. The branch was also responsible for evaluating and improving the efficiency of operations. Areas of focus included: traffic operations, maintenance operations, fleet and corridor management. Areas of program delivery included: electrical design, freeway traffic management systems, planning and design and landscape architecture design.
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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KWIC Indexes 1990-1997
Maintenance notes
This was originally brought forward to 2008 as existing under a new name. I have now closed it off at ca. 1994 in order to be able to create an authority for the Construction and Operations Branch (which has a slightly different structure / set of responsibilities) as this new name was used for a long time and is hard to locate as a variant name.
Archivist(s):
Birrell; Shimpo