Question

Write a paper about conducting a traffic study access road and the elements that should be considered about a new development. Assume the development is in Detroit Jefferson and grand blv intersections

Answer 1

Solution :

Following are the study points for development of roads :

1. Vehicular Trip Desire : Vehicles move both persons and goods. Ve-hicles, therefore, are the unit best adapted to measure the demand for roadways.

Vehicle travel desire is described in two ways in the following maps. First, a distinction is made between the local and the external trips. Local trips both begin and end within the Study Area. External trips enter and leave the Area. Theire is study which claims that total trip is 3,630,000 out of which 254000 or 7% is external trips.

2. Truck Movement Patterns :  It is possible to deal with vehicles in an undifferentiated way because pas-senger cars and commercial vehicles are mixed into an average pattern and because passenger cars, representing 85% of all vehicle trips, are the dominant element.

A study claims that While nearly 15% of all trips are truck trips, only 11% of the vehicle trips during the peak hour ( 4:00 P .M.-5: 00 P.M.) are by trucks.

3. Person Travel Desire Patterns :  The preceding sections have been concerned with the travel patterns of vehicles. The pre-dominant element in the vehicle pattern is the passenger car. Since passenger car move-ment results from the need for people to move about, knowledge of the volumes, the sources and the nature of person movement is necessary to understand and to predict vehicular move-ments. There are 880,000 transit trips on an average weekday in Detroit. This is 17% of the totaJ internal trips shown. However, 25% of all the workers in the area use public transit to get from home to work and 50% of all persons travelling to the Central Business District travel by public transit.