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AICP Transportation

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show Deals with the number of trips that a particular site is likely to generate; influenced by land use, intensity of use, characteristics of the journey, trip purpose, and trip purpose trip purpose, and socioeconomic characteristics of the person making trip  
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show A detailed survey to estimate travel demands on a traffic system .  
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Cross tabulation mode   show
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show 11 daily trips per 1,000 square feet  
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show 9.6 vehilce trips per unit  
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show 43 daily trips per 1,000 square feet  
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show 7 daily trips per 1,000 square feet  
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show Generally provides information on how many trips are made between each zone and every other zone. Provides information on trip distances, time and cost, the nature of the trip, socioeconomic characteristics, and the nature of the transportation system.  
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Gravity Model   show
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show Deals with how people get to where they want to go, and the form of transportation that they use.  
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show The amount of traffic on a roadway in a 24 hour period, averaged over a year.  
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show The hourly traffic during the peak period  
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Seasonal hour volume   show
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show The capacity of the roadway to handle traffic  
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show Network models to predict the distribution of traffic for each roadway by the hour. Peak volumes can then be compared with DHV to see which, if any, roadways are going to experience traffic over their design capacity.  
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Vehicle Miles of Travel (VMT)   show
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show Ten foot travel lanes, eight foot parking lanes, and a curb and planting strip. However, the resulting ROW of 56 feet is much wider than most local streets.  
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show 500 foot maximum tangents, stop signs or speed bumps to slow things down, 150 feet between intersections & clear site distances of 75 feet.  
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show Provide direct access to adjacent land and to the higher classified streets.  
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show Provide both land access and traffic circulation with residential, commercial, and industrial areas by collecting and distributing traffic to these areas,  
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show interconnect the principal arterials, provide less mobility, smaller geographic areas than principal arterials.    
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show Serve longer trips, carry the highest traffic volumes, carry a large percentage of the VMT on minimum mileage, and provide minimal land access.    
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Highway Capacity Manual   show
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Level of Service   show
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Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944   show
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show Authorized $25 billion to be spent between 1957 and 1969.  
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Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962   show
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Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962   show
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Also known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act   show
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The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA)   show
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show Authorized the Federal surface transportation programs for highways, highway safety, and transit for the 6-year period 1998-2003.  
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The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU)   show
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Created by The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962   show
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show A unified planning work program for areas with populations of 200,000 or more, prepared by MPOs. Lists all projects for which federal funds are anticipated, along with non-federally funded projects that are regionally significant.  
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Transit Oriented Development (TOD)   show
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show Involves changes in street alignment, installation of barriers, and other physical measures to reduce traffic speeds and/or cut-through volumes, in the interest of street safety, livability, and other public purposes.  
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