ANAHEIM : Association Aims to Solve Traffic Woes

A new transportation management association serving the Anaheim Canyon Business Center will try to devise ways to reduce traffic congestion and improve customer access to local businesses.

The City Council approved creation of the association Tuesday by a unanimous vote. Funding will be provided by a $100,000 grant Anaheim received from the Orange County Transportation Authority.

The nonprofit association will be a public-private partnership that brings together governmental agencies, local employers and community organizations to address current and potential transportation problems.

Pasadena-based Transportation Management Services will form the association under a contract with the city. The company also established the city’s first transportation management association, which began operations this summer in the Anaheim resort area and the Stadium Business Center.

The company’s president, Peter J. Valk said Wednesday that the new association will be formed before the opening of the Metrolink commuter rail station in the Anaheim Canyon Business Center. The train station at Tustin and La Palma avenues is scheduled to begin service next spring.

“That really is a significant event for the area,” Valk said, “and it would be quite timely for the [transportation association] to be part of that event.”