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How Long Should a Valet Parking Zone Be?
We’ve done several traffic impact studies for developments with restaurants on the ground floor that had proposed valet zones. A nagging question has been, “how much storage is needed in the valet...
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ITE Trip Generation Results in Phantom Trips?
At least that’s the thesis of Adam Millard-Ball in an article posted on Access titled Phantom Trips. I agree with him that if one was going to use the trip generation rates in ITE’s Trip Generation...
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Trip Generation for Smart Growth Projects in California
Researchers at UC Davis have published an interesting article on “smart growth” trip generation (what a great term folks coined, it implies everything else is “dumb growth”). Check it out HERE. The...
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Review of Trip Generation Handbook, 3rd Edition
Guest Post from Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE – Vice-President of Spack Consulting It’s long and academic, but I finally managed to read through the 3rd Edition of ITE’s Trip Generation Handbook. Published...
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Announcing Open Source Trip Generation Data
Photo courtesy nipitphand from FreeDigitalPhotos.net The daily trips per household in Minnesota dropped from 11.1 trips in 2000 to 8.8 trips in 2010. You can read recent articles from the University...
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All Trips Are Equal, But Some Trips Are More Equal Than Others
Using Local Trip Generation Data in Traffic Analysis Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE, Vice-President at Spack Consulting Earlier this year, I detailed how our standard process for a Traffic Impact...
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Traffic Impact Study Improvements: Part 4 – To All the Ends of the Earth
8 Considerations When Generating Trip Distribution Patterns Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE, Vice President at Spack Consulting Earlier this year, I detailed how our standard process for a Traffic...
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Traffic Impact Study Improvements: Part 5 – When is a Trip Not a Trip?
How to Determine Trip Generation Types Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE, Vice President at Spack Consulting Earlier this year, I detailed how our standard process for a Traffic Impact Study has...
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New Trip Generation Data – Marijuana Dispensaries Drive 10 Times More Traffic...
Per square foot (KSF), Marijuana Dispensaries are proving to be one of the biggest retail traffic generators in the United States. The tables below show the traffic rates at marijuana dispensaries as...
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Queue Data for the Top 5 Drive Through Uses
A key item for traffic engineers to review on a commercial site is whether or not vehicles waiting in a drive through lane will block circulation in the parking lot. Very little actual data exists on...
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What the ITE Trip Generation Manual Isn’t Telling You
The Institute of Transportation Engineers’ (ITE) Trip Generation Manual suggests that “the user may wish to modify trip generation rates presented in this document to reflect … special characteristics...
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How Long Should a Valet Parking Zone Be?
This article originally appeared on my blog in August of 2014. We regularly get inquiries on this topic so, I thought it would be appropriate to share our findings again. If you are a regular reader of...
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4 Suggestions for the Future of ITE’s Trip Generation
Here is a link to an email I received from ITE about the future of their Trip Generation effort. Basically, they are looking at modernizing their Trip Generation system to include Urban Trip...
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When Roadway Options Are Not Enough Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE, Vice President at Spack Consulting. For many projects, the end result of the traffic engineering work is mitigation in the form...
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Announcing New Parking Generation Data
We have done a lot of talking lately about trip generation and how we have been collecting our own local data, as well as getting data from other people around the country. Having all of this trip...
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2016 Mike On Traffic Reader Survey Results
The 2016 MikeOnTraffic subscriber survey results are in! Here’s a chart of the top work issues in our field: Three key areas standout from this year’s survey: Trip Generation Everyday work challenges...
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Local Data Proves Best Again – Trip Generation at Hotels
Guest Post by Max Moreland, PE, Director of Operations at Traffic Data Inc. A key initiative of Mike on Traffic and Spack Consulting is to actively share our traffic engineering data and knowledge with...
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How to Define the “Casual Fast Food” Land Use Category
By Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE “The phrase “I know it when I see it” is a colloquial expression by which a speaker attempts to categorize an observable fact or event, although the category is subjective or...
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Insights on the 2017 ITE Annual Meeting
By Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE I just got back from attending the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ Annual Meeting. The Spack Consulting team attending this year’s meeting will be sharing our thoughts...
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Top Seven Highlights of the new ITE Trip Generation Manual
By Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE The 10th edition of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Trip Generation Manual is expected to be released in September. Based on information from the ITE Annual...
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