Traffic Engineering

Monthly Safety Message

Winter safety - Heavy snow falls as we saw past winter impact traffic tremendously, and even with all of Public Works’ plowing crews working around the clock not all streets can be cleared. Major roadways such as arterial and collector streets have priority and will be cleared and maintained as shown in the Springfield snow route map.

During normal snow and ice occurrences Public Works will not clear residential local streets. In order to service our infrastructure in the most efficient way it is important that Springfield’s citizens do their part by being prepared for our plowing crews.

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Traffic Engineering is a division of the department of Public Works. The division is responsible for traffic planning and design, sign and signal operations, and traffic data collection.

Multiple professional engineers, project engineers, technicians and support staff perform various operations related to traffic planning and operations, traffic signal system, and traffic signs and markings.

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The Traffic Engineering division of Public Works maintains:

  • Over 37,000 traffic signs
  • Over 600 miles of pavement markings
  • Over 135 traffic signals
  • Over 40 miles of fiber optic communications
  • Over 1,100 traffic counts collected annually


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Busch Building
First Floor
840 Boonville Avenue
Springfield, MO 65802
417.864.1980

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