Comparison of Traffic Impact Analysis Methods for Proposed Developments
This paper presents an empirical study to compare two methods for performing traffic impact analysis, namely the link distribution percentage approach and the special generator approach. The Alachua/Gainesville Metropolitan Planning Organization model was used as the test bed. A number of scenarios of new developments were created by changing various characteristics of two hypothetical developments. The traffic impacts of those hypothetical developments were estimated by implementing these two methods respectively. It was observed that these two methods produced fairly consistent estimates of traffic impacts caused by different hypothetical scenarios. However, the link distribution percentage approach is easier to implement. This paper thus recommends this less cumbersome approach to analyze traffic impacts from proposed developments.
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Authors:
- Mamun, Shahid
- Yin, Yafeng
- Srinivasan, Sivaramakrishnan
- Corkery, Terry
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2011-1-23 to 2011-1-27
- Date: 2011
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: DVD
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 14p
- Monograph Title: TRB 90th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Empirical methods; Metropolitan planning organizations; Real estate development; Regional development; Regional planning; Traffic characteristics; Traffic flow
- Uncontrolled Terms: Hypothetical situations; Traffic impact analysis
- Geographic Terms: Alachua County (Florida); Gainesville (Florida)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01340166
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 11-1403
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: May 18 2011 11:21AM