Development Review in the District of Columbia: Transitioning from a Traditional Traffic Impact Study to Comprehensive Multi-Modal Transportation Review
As part of the District Department of Transportation’s (DDOT) vision and commitment to more sustainable travel practices, safer streets and access to goods and services, DDOT evaluates the effect of public and private development proposals that come before the District’s Office of Zoning. Previously, this evaluation focused largely on automobile impacts on the District’s roadway network. Given the high percentage non-auto commuting trips, along with an extensive capital and operational investment in the District’s comprehensive transportation infrastructure, DDOT has transitioned to a new multimodal paradigm for evaluating a development’s impacts. To meet multi-modal strategic objectives in the District’s Comprehensive Plan, DDOT has transitioned to a structured model for evaluating transportation impacts and potential mitigation across all travel modes. This model is built upon new comprehensive transportation review guidelines, which replace the traditional traffic impact study and provide a standardized process to a developer, delineating the method of collecting and analyzing data in support of their project in order to be in compliance with DDOT policies. In addition, the new guidelines provide a process for the interpretation of data, allowing DDOT to develop opinions and recommendations to a zoning body on a development’s impacts. Further, a new set of standardized forms and reporting documents ensure consistent and structured interaction among DDOT, developers, and zoning bodies, throughout the zoning process from project inception through permitting.
-
Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD30 Transportation and Land Development.
-
Corporate Authors:
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20001 -
Authors:
- Zimbabwe, Sam
- Parker, Martin
- Henson, Jamie
- White, Bryon
-
Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
- Date: 2013
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: References;
- Pagination: 17p
- Monograph Title: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Development; Impact studies; Multimodal transportation; Proposals; Standardization; Zoning
- Identifier Terms: District Department of Transportation
- Geographic Terms: Washington (District of Columbia)
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01477063
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 13-4172
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 28 2013 4:47PM